How to sell your car for the most money in St. Louis
Two offers in about two minutes — same-day cash, or retail value with zero effort. Here is exactly how it works, start to finish.
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Here's how it works
Three steps, one visit, and you pick the payout.
Give us the details
About two minutes with a plate and state, or a VIN, plus a few honest questions about condition. Dents, a check-engine light and a failed emissions test all belong in those answers — they do not disqualify anything, and disclosing them up front is what keeps the number from moving later.
- Make
- Model
- Trim
- Mileage
- Condition
Get your two offers
You bring the car to Ballwin or O'Fallon and a local appraiser puts hands on it. Twenty minutes later you have two numbers side by side, built on the same inspection, with the reasoning for each explained out loud rather than slid across a desk.
Pick the payout that fits
Instant Cash — hand over the keys and the title, and the check prints before you go. Most sellers are in and out inside an hour.
Profit-Sharing — a reserve check the same day, then a second check for your share once the car sells at retail. You do nothing in between: no listing, no strangers at your address, no title paperwork on your kitchen table.
Pick your payout
Two offers, one appraisal — take the certainty or take the upside
Both numbers come off the same inspection, so this is not a negotiation between us — it is a choice between speed and ceiling, and it is yours to make with both figures in front of you.
Option 1 · Fastest
Instant Cash Offer
A firm number, good for seven days, built on a real inspection rather than a form. Accept it at either lot and the check prints while you sign. This is the option that wins when the car has to be gone this week.
- Firm number online in about 2 minutes
- Same-day payment — check in hand before you leave
- $300 more than any physically reviewed competing offer*
Option 2 · Highest payout
Profit-Sharing
A wholesale number is what a car is worth to a trade buyer; a retail number is what it is worth to the family who ends up driving it. Profit sharing aims at the second one. You take a reserve check now and a second check when it sells, and we absorb the reconditioning, the photography and the weeks on the lot.
- Reserve-price check upfront, at drop-off
- We handle reconditioning, listing, and the sale
- A second check for your share of the profit when it sells
$300
The $300 Best-Offer Guarantee
Have an in-person offer from another dealership? Just take their offer, bring it to us, and we'll pay you $300 more — that's the whole deal. Online quotes with no physical inspection of your car don't qualify. Why not get one more offer?
Same two offers at both lots — sell your car in Ballwin or O'Fallon.
Sounds complicated? It's not.
Here's the entire process,
with real numbers.
Say you bring us a 2020 Chevrolet Equinox, about as common a car as this metro has. Here's exactly how both paths play out.
Your 2020 Equinox appraises for
$16,400
We verify the condition in person and determine the current market retail value: $18,900
Your offers — good for 7 days from the appraisal date
Instant Cash
$16,400
Paid in full as soon as we get the vehicle. Done.
Profit-Sharing
$18,900*
A $16,000 reserve check at drop-off, plus your share of the profit when it sells.
Take Instant Cash?
That's your final step — get paid at either lot and hand over the keys.
Pick Profit-Sharing?
Collect your $16,000 reserve check, and we recondition the Equinox and list it at full retail.
A few weeks later, your Equinox sells for
$18,900
You get paid the profit
- Sold price
- $18,900
- Reserve price, already in your pocket
- − $16,000
- Profit
- $2,900
- Reconditioning costs
- − $650
- Success fee**
- − $995
- Your second check
- $1,255
+$855 more than the Instant Cash Offer, in this example — for zero extra effort.
* As soon as we get the vehicle, you'll receive a check for the reserve price. We will recondition and market your vehicle at full retail value. After the sale closes, you'll receive a second check for your share of the profit.
** Success fee is $995 or 5% of the sale price, whichever is greater. Example figures are illustrative.
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