British Car Auctions is part of BCA Marketplace plc, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange. We are bringing together used car sellers and buyers. We sell more than one million vehicles annually and are Europe’s largest vehicle remarketing company.

We are managing used car sales around 50 centres across 10 countries: France, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, Sweden and UK.

We develop partnerships with many contributors, sometimes exclusively, to offer a wide selection of cars. Vehicles for sales come from dealer trade-in, finance and leasing houses, rental companies, manufacturer, fleet operators and adminitrations among others. BCA features a unique used vehicle stock.

We sell a wide variety of cars, commercial vehicles, damaged cars, non-runners, two-wheelers and even trucks and machinery! The vehicle type is mentioned on the vehicle detail page.

In the menu, you can either search for a specific vehicle in stock or search for a sale in the calendar. The calendar will contain a selection of similar vehicles to offer you a larger choice.

A sale is an event, online or in hall where we present a wide range of vehicles. To access online sales, you must be registered and connected. At BCA, we provide different type of sales:

• Bid now: this type of sale gives you the opportunity to place bids in online auctions, at any time of the day directly within vehicle detail page.
• xBid: Most of the bid now sales end with an X-Bid session which start 5 minutes after the first sale. It is a new opportunity to bid on the vehicle.
• Live Online:  An "In house" application which allows you to attend an auction from your home, either the auction takes place physically in "an auction place" or only online. You can hear the auctioneer and send a message to ask questions.
• Auction in hall: In the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal, some auctions take place in a hall so you can go there to bid and buy in person.
• Buy now: you can find and purchase vehicles online 24/7 at a fixed price.
• Sealed bid: You place a bid of the amount of your choice, you can modify this amount whenever you want. After the auction has ended the highest bidder receives a notification by email.

Access to our sales is reserved for professionals from the automotive industry. Private persons can buy at physical auctions on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

To register at BCA, fill in the online form, we'll call you back asap to learn more about you and ask you to provide a few documents. You can also register at BCA when you come to an auction in hall or simply call us.

After receiving your documents listed here below, we send you your online login within 24 hours:

• Extract from trade register (K-bis) ≤3 months
• Copy of the ID Card of the company owner (front and back)
• If the buyer is not the owner: the purchasing power of attorney + copy of the ID Card of the buyer
• Signed Terms & Conditions

It takes within 24 to 48 hours to register, check your documentation and send you your login.

If after 48 hours of your online registration you have not received the activation email sent by the Customer service :

1. Check your spam box

2. If the email is not there, please contact our Buyerteam, from 8:30 to 18:00 to +31 88 - 540 3874 or by email

You should register with your local BCA subsidiary. If you came from a country where BCA is not present we will automatically assign your account to the team best placed to support you.

No, once you are registered in a BCA, you can get access to all international sales across Europe. Please contact your local team and request the access. Further information or documentation might be required.

During our online sales, each of your bids commits you. All the bids are active until the end of the auction. If you win a vehicle, you are obliged to go ahead with the transaction. During an auction in hall, if you raise your hand and when the auctioneer accepts the bid, this is legally binding and cannot be revoked.

Depending on the sale and BCA country, you might have access to this information before the auction starts. You will find it on the vehicle detail page.

The BCA website respects all the standard practices of online security. To bid and buy, all the users have to connect with secure passwords. The website uses the standard internet cryptographic Protocol SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), supplying a safety and an integrity of the data for the web communications.

You will be notified via email shortly after the end of the sale.

Furthermore, you will also find this information under MyBCA (with the exception of purchases done on Live Online)

You have to pay the vehicle hammer price and buyer fees. You must pay by bank transfer in the next 3 days. Please note that buyer fees and payment details are different depending on the country sale management.

Professionals can receive invoices without VAT under certain conditions. Please refer to the guide for more information.

After the payment of your invoice, you can imidiately pick up your car. You have up to 3 days to pick up the car free of charge. Afterwards a fee of 5€ per car per additional day will be charged.

All cars purchased in Barneveld by a Dutch buyer can be picked up at our branch in Barneveld. Foreign buyers who have bought a car with a registration date later the October 15. 1006 can be picked up in Weeze (Germany)

Yes, BCA can help to deliver you the vehicle. For more details, please refer to the Delivery section.

Yes, BCA can help you to get some documents and deliver the vehicle abroad. For more details, please refer to the Export section.

At BCA we want to ensure your satisfaction. Thus why we have a dedicated team to process your claims. If after carefully studying our terms and conditions you would like to submit a claim, please contact us at +31 342 40 45 40.

Please note that you can submit a claim if:

• The claim amount is higher than € 400,-; this is your own risk
• You have not driven with the vehicle over 50 kilometers
• The odometer shows less than 225.000 km
• The car is no older than 12 years
• Repair work hasn't already been done to the vehicle
• You have not already resold the vehicle
• If the claim is not about a wear part (clutch, mass fly wheel, ect.)

Check carefully our full claim policy included in our Terms and Conditions.

Yes, to open a case in The Netherlands, you need to provide:

• The release document or CMR where you will have notified your comment
• A picture of the mileage counter is provided

You open a claim on the same website as you log in. Please refer to the country claim policy to ensure the eligibility of your claim which depends on local rules.