Consignment
Sell it without the circus.
Private sale gets you the better price and costs you every evening for a month. Trading it in costs you thousands and takes an afternoon. Consignment is the middle, and the detailing is what makes it work.
- You keep
- The private-sale price
- You skip
- The strangers
- Terms
- Agreed up front
Why this exists
A clean car is a different car on paper.
Detailing and selling are the same skill pointed at different ends of the process. The gap between a dealer trade-in number and a private sale number is usually thousands, and a meaningful part of that gap is simply presentation.
Most private sellers photograph a dirty car in bad light and then negotiate against their own photos. Rhett already does the correction, the interior and the coating, so the car goes to market looking like the best example of itself rather than the worst.
The trade is straightforward. Rhett takes the work and the strangers, you take a number closer to private sale than to trade-in. If your car is better off going to auction or straight to a dealer, he'll tell you that instead of listing it and wasting a month.
How it runs
Four steps, and you are only in two of them.
- 01
We agree a number
What you want to walk away with, and what the car realistically brings in this market. If those two do not meet, Rhett will say so before either of you spends time on it.
- 02
It gets detailed first
This is the part most private sellers skip and it is the part that moves the price. A corrected, properly cleaned car photographs differently and shows differently.
- 03
Listed and photographed
Real photographs in good light, an honest description, and the listings handled. Inquiries go to Rhett rather than to your phone at eleven at night.
- 04
You get paid
Rhett handles the showings and the tire kickers. You deal with paperwork once, at the end, with a buyer who is actually buying.
Start here
Tell Rhett what you are selling.
Year, make, model, mileage and roughly what you are hoping to get. Rhett will come back with what it takes to get there and what the terms would look like.
This is a conversation, not a commitment. Nothing is signed and nothing is charged from this form.