How we choose junk car buyers
We checked 18,144 listings and kept 1,616. This is what we looked for, what we took off, and why some buyers are shown first.
- 18,144Listings checked
Every business tied to junk cars, towing or salvage that we found searching online by hand, across the US.
- 1,616Buyers kept
Local businesses that buy cars, rated 4.0 stars or better, most with 10 or more reviews.
- 103Cities read review by review
In each of these cities we read what customers wrote about every buyer.
How we built the list
We searched the whole country
We searched online by hand, across the whole country, for every business we could find tied to junk cars, towing or salvage, 18,144 of them in all.
We took off the ones that aren't buyers
Most of them were not local car buyers at all. They were businesses that haul household junk, call centers that sell your details, listings named after search words instead of a business, and duplicates.
We set a bar for ratings
We kept businesses rated 4.0 stars or better. A handful of reviews tells you very little, so most of the buyers we kept have at least 10.
We read the reviews, city by city
In every city we list, we read what customers wrote about each buyer. We took off 89 whose reviews showed red flags, like a habit of quoting high and cutting the price at pickup, and 707 whose reviews showed no sign of buying cars.
A few buyers have fewer than 10 reviews, and we list them because what their customers wrote shows them buying cars. A buyer that signs up to bid here without a listing of ours gets a page of its own, which says so and shows no star rating.
The write-ups are our own words, based on what customers mentioned, and we never copy review text.
What we took off, and why
These are the reasons listings didn't make the site, and how many each one caught.
- Don't buy cars 11,988
- Rated under 4.0, or too few reviews to tell 1,662
- Named after search keywords, not a business 1,432
- Reviews didn't show them buying cars 707
- Call centers and lead-selling phone lines 106
- Red flags in what sellers wrote 89
- Duplicates and spam 27
The order you see
Buyers who bid on BeaterBoss are shown first in their city and marked "Bids here". You can get their price on your board without a phone call. They pay us a fee when you pick them and they pick up the car, and that is why they come first.
Everyone else is shown in a fresh order on every visit, so no buyer is stuck at the top or the bottom. You can sort the list yourself by highest rated, A to Z, or closest to you once you share your location, and you can hide chain locations.
Where a city has more buyers than fit on its page, the ones with the strongest reviews make it. A business with only a few reviews is pulled toward the average, so a 5.0 from 3 reviews doesn't beat a 4.8 from 400. A buyer that doesn't make its city's page still has a page of its own.
After a sale
Once a buyer picks up a car sold through BeaterBoss, the seller can review them, one review per car, and the review shows on the buyer's page. A seller who says they got the whole amount of the bid is marked "Paid in full". These reviews only come from sellers who really sold a car here, so they show how a buyer acts when their tow truck shows up, not just how they look online.
Who pays what
Sellers never pay anything. Buyers who bid here keep a card on file and pay us a fee only when a seller picks them and the car is picked up, and bidding here is what puts them first in their city. No business can pay to have another buyer removed, to change its rating, or to change what we write about it.
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