One
You tell us about the car
The rego, the basics, and anything you already know is wrong with it. Two minutes. No photos to take, no VIN to go hunting for, and no account to create.
Any state · we come to the car
Sell your car without the public.
No listing to write. No strangers in your driveway. No Saturday spent waiting on someone who was never turning up. Tell us the rego, and a person who buys cars for a living rings you with a real number — then we come to the car, wherever it happens to be parked.
- We come to the car, in any state
- Paid the same day
- Your details go to us, and nobody else
How it works
Five steps, and you stay exactly where you are.
That is the whole process. There is no step six where somebody rings up to renegotiate.
Two
We ring you with a number
Someone from SYCA who buys cars for a living — usually within the hour, in buying hours, and first thing the next working morning outside them. You get a real estimate and the thinking behind it, and you are very welcome to say no right there on the phone.
Three
We come to the car
Your driveway, your work car park, your mum's garage, in any state — usually half an hour, and you can get on with your day while it happens rather than sitting in somebody's office.
Four
A firm offer, there and then
Once we have actually seen the car the number becomes an offer, signed on the spot. Nothing counts down and nothing shrinks while you think it over. If it differs from the estimate, we show you which line on the published list it came from.
Five
Paperwork, money, then the car
Transfer forms done at the car and signed once, with your copy emailed before we leave. The safety certificate is our job, not yours. The money is confirmed before the car leaves, and it is with you the same day you sign.
We do not buy every car. That is what makes us good to sell to.
Most buyers in this game have to take almost anything to keep their volume up, and you can hear it in how they deal with you. We get to be choosy. No year cut-off, no kilometre line, no rule about the books — we look at each car properly and you get a straight answer today either way.
And we are not here to pinch a car off you at dirt value. We would far rather pay a fair number, make the whole thing pleasant, and be the people you ring about the next one.
One buyer gets your number. Not a lead market.
The sites that fire back a number in three seconds are usually selling your enquiry to whoever bids for it, which is why the phone does not stop for a fortnight afterwards. Yours comes to SYCA and nobody else, and one word from you ends it for good.
Before you spend a minute on it
Everything that could move the price, written down in advance.
This is the bit the industry gets sued over: a big number online, then a smaller one in your driveway once you have already given up your Saturday. So here is the entire list, before you have given up anything at all.
It is not quite the car we priced
A different build year, badge or gearbox to the one on the enquiry. This is far and away the most common one, and it is almost always an honest mix-up.
Damage we could not see
Panel damage, paint repairs, rust, a windscreen that needs replacing. Tell us up front and it is built into the number from the start, rather than changing it in your driveway.
Something does not work
Air conditioning, electrics, a warning light, a gearbox or a clutch on its way out. Say so early and it costs you nothing in the way you are treated.
The books are not there
A stamped logbook is worth real money to the dealer who buys the car next, so missing service history changes what we can pay for it.
The odometer is well off
More than about 5,000 km either side of what the enquiry said.
The title is not clean
A written-off or repairable write-off record, or finance nobody mentioned. We run the PPSR before we buy, so it comes up either way — much better sitting in the estimate than landing as a surprise.
Worth thinking about
Add up what a private sale really costs you.
Not in dollars. In Saturdays. In the safety certificate you pay for and whatever it turns up. In the fellow who rings in the middle of your kid's soccer game wanting to know what you will take for it, books a test drive for Sunday, and then needs to have a think about it. A private sale is a second job nobody applied for — and we are the version where you keep your weekend.
Selling it privately
- You set the asking price
- Photos, a listing, and your phone going for weeks
- Strangers at the house, and test drives on your own
- Safety certificate at your cost, and the payment risk is yours
Trading it in
- One transaction, over in an afternoon
- Only works if you are buying their car as well
- The trade number and the new-car number move together
- They handle the paperwork
Selling it to us
- We come to the car, in any state — you go nowhere
- About half an hour at your place, and it is done
- Safety certificate, paperwork and transfer are ours
- Paid the same day, and confirmed before the car leaves
Our number is what the car is worth to the dealers we sell it on to, less what it costs us to get it there. That is the whole calculation. Nothing is shaved off it afterwards, there is no fee at the end, and nobody here does better out of paying you less — we would much rather buy your next one too.
Get started
Three short steps, and only the last one is about you.
Most sites in this category take your name and number first and tell you the rest later, which is what makes the call afterwards feel like bait. This one asks about the car, and only then asks who to ring.
- What actually arrives
- An estimate and a phone call from SYCA. Not an automated text with a range in it, and not a number you have to sit through a pitch to hear.
- When
- Monday to Friday, 8am – 6pm. Saturday, 9am – 2pm. (AEST) Outside those, first thing the next working morning.
- Where we come
- Every state, across the cities and the regional centres. If the car is somewhere genuinely remote, say so on the call and we will work out how we get to it — that is a conversation, not a no.
1. The car — current step
2. Its condition
3. You
An estimate is not an offer. It is what we expect to pay based on what you have told us. The firm offer comes from the person who inspects the car, once they have actually seen it.
Find out what yours is worth.
One field to start, and you can stop at any point. No account, no obligation, and a real person at the end of it.
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