BidFax: a useful free service for checking the history of vehicles from the USA

Purchasing used cars from America is becoming more and more popular. At the same time, there is a growing interest in useful online services allowing to be more confident while making purchases. Bidfax.info is one of the sites where you can check the information about the vehicle auction lot.

The site was founded relatively not so long ago – in 2018 – but it has already become the leading resource where buyers can find reliable and useful information about the lot. However, the data are collected and processed only from two auctions: Insurance Auto Auctions (IAAI) and Copart.

If you want to buy an American vehicle, but are not sure about its price category, you can check its sales history, technical condition, year of manufacture, mileage and degree of damage with BidFax. You can search both by VIN-code and by the auction lot number, and you can do it absolutely free.

Therefore, BidFax allows you finding out the following:

• the vehicle's sales history – how many times and when it was sold;

• the vehicle's value range;

• the vehicle's technical condition at the time of the auction;

• the information about the condition at the time of purchase in the USA;

• the information on lots sold by Timed Auctions, Buy Now, and other marketplaces.

For users’ convenience and systematization of the information received, the models of cars on the website are marked with different colors: with red – from IAAI, with blue – from Copart. The sorting filter is easier than, for example, on AutoAstat: you can only set the make and model of the vehicle. However, this does not affect the usability of the website.

The official site is available in English only. BidFax's traffic volume is about 8,500 unique visitors per day and 37,716 page views, which is quite an impressive figure. The largest number of visitors is from Eastern Europe, including Georgia.

The significant advantage of the Bidfax info resource is that you can browse through the pictures of the vehicle right in your smartphone – it's important to save time and nerves, you don't have to go to the page of the lot you are interested in every time and then come back to search.

The only disadvantage of the site is the confusion with the mileage. In Bidfax, the information is displayed in miles; however, the mileage in Canada is in kilometers. The bug is annoying, but knowing about it, you can easily recalculate the mileage.

BidFax does not exclude the possibility of adding a vehicle to the site yourself. However, in order to proceed, the user must officially confirm the information from the auction.

We kindly remind you that the Columbus company professionals will help you arrange the selection, purchase and delivery of a vehicle from the US auto auctions. Protect yourself from unnecessary risks and from a lot of trouble!