Place Bids

Bidding and buying is open to all active Copart Finland Basic and Premier Members. All bids are final.

Preliminary Bidding

Copart Members can place preliminary bids, or pre-bids, prior to and during the live auction, as late as two minutes or two units before the vehicle appears on the block. When you pre-bid, you place bid on the lot prior to the live sale. Your pre-bid will be represented during the live auction and could be the winning bid if no other bidder submits a higher bid during either the pre-bid phase or the live auction. Your pre-bid is your Maximum Bid on the vehicle.

Pre-bid from your computer, mobile device or a bidding kiosk located in the lobby of Copart Finland facilities. 

Increment bidding and pre-bids

Note that when there is a tie between pre-bid and live bid, the live bidder prevails as the highest bidder on the item. Increment bidding allows Copart to increase your entered pre-bid by one and only one increment if the bid is facing a tie with the live bidder. Increment checkbox must be selected when making the pre-bid.

Mistyped pre-bid

If you have mistyped your Maximum Bid, enter a new Maximum Bid and click Confirm Bid. Your new Maximum Bid cannot be less than the Current Bid. We will reduce your Maximum Bid to the value entered or the current Bid whichever is greater. Please note, that you can update your pre-bid but you can't delete it.

Example: The current bid for an item is 100 €, you entered Maximum Bid of 2,000 €, but you wanted to bid only 200 €. BID4U technology will automatically set your bid to 125 €. By selecting Mistyped Bid you can only decrease your bid to the next increment. For example, if another member bids 500 € in the middle of you bid update, you're minimum bid on the vehicle will be 525 €. 

Live Bidding

In a live-auction, lots are auctioned in order according to their item number. Before the lot you want is on the auction block, you can pre-bid until your item is either two minutes or two vehicles away from the auction queue.

When it's lots bidding turn in the live online auction, it will be placed in the main view of the auction and members can start to bid on it. Bidders have 10 seconds to bid on the lot, and every bid restarts the 10-second-bidding-time. This continues until there are no more bids within 10 seconds, the sale ends and auction continues with the next lot. Choose Bid to increase the highest bid by one increment. This will turn the auction frames green, letting you know you have the winning bid. If someone else raises your winning bid, the frames turn red and you are no longer the winning bidder. If you have not bid on the item, the frames will remain blue.

Bid on your computer or mobile device by selecting the automatic increment option or choosing your own bid amount by using + and - buttons (Monster Bid). Alternatively, you can select BID4U and the system will increase the bid by one increment against other bidders up to the amount you selected. Compete against other Members to become the highest bidder, and if your bid is still the highest after 10 seconds, you win the sale of the vehicle.

Increments / minimum bids

The size of increment is determined by the current highest bid. For example, the current highest bid for an item is 175€ , so one increment is minimum 25 € until highest bid reaches 1000 €.

Buy it Now

Buy it Now allows you to purchase the vehicle immediately at a set price before the lot goes to live auction. Upon clicking the button you will be taken to a confirmation page to confirm your Buy it Now offer. Once confirmed you will be directed to pay for the vehicle.