The community's accumulated checklist, kept short on purpose:
- No physical US address or the address is a mailbox store.
- Prices dramatically under wholesale — under Manheim numbers means under cost, which means the car or the company is not what it appears.
- Pressure to pay by irreversible methods only (gift cards, crypto) with no invoice.
- “Clean title” claims on lots the auction listing shows as salvage.
- No written landed-cost quote covering fees and vehicle shipping.
Any single flag is a question; two flags is an exit.