Texts
We text you about your car only if you agreed to texts, with the box on the listing form or the Text me updates button on your board. Every text starts with “BeaterBoss:” so you know it is us.
We text you when your car is listed, when a buyer bids by hand, or replaces their instant bid, and takes the top spot, when a buyer writes to you, before bidding closes on a listing that takes bids for a day or longer, when bidding closes with bids standing, and when your listing ends. Once you take a bid, we text you when your pickup is booked or moved, the evening before it, when the tow truck is on the way and when the sale is done, unless you were the one who told us it was picked up.
To turn texts on later, press Text me updates on your board, where it shows while texts are off. We send you a text right away to confirm. To stop texts, reply STOP to any of them.
Emails
If you gave us your email, the important messages come by email too: your listing, the reminder that bidding closes soon, the close of bidding, the end of your listing, your booked pickup with a link to add it to your calendar, and the end of the sale. Anything we would have texted but couldn’t, because you didn’t agree to texts, comes by email instead.
If we have no email for you, or you stopped our emails, your board offers a box to add one. To stop emails, use the “Stop these emails” link at the bottom of any of them. It asks once to make sure, and it doesn’t change your texts.
When they come
Reminders wait for daytime: we don’t send them between 9 PM and 8 AM on the clock where your car is. Messages about something happening right now can come at any hour, like a booking, a buyer writing to you, the tow truck on the way or our answer to your message.
Codes
The 6-digit codes that open your board are texted even if you didn’t agree to texts, because you asked for them.