British Car Auctions is part of BCA Marketplace plc, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange. We are bringing together used car sellers and buyers. We sell more than one million vehicles annually and are Europe’s largest vehicle remarketing company.

We are managing used car sales around 50 centres across 10 countries: France, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, Sweden and UK.

We develop partnerships with many contributors, sometimes exclusively, to offer a wide selection of cars. Vehicles for sales come from dealer trade-in, finance and leasing houses, rental companies, manufacturer, fleet operators and adminitrations among others. BCA features a unique used vehicle stock.

We sell a wide variety of cars, commercial vehicles, damaged cars, non-runners, two-wheelers and even trucks and machinery!  The vehicle type is mentioned on the vehicle detail page.

In the menu, you can either search for a specific vehicle in stock or search for a sale in the calendar. The calendar will contain a selection of similar vehicles to offer you a larger choice.

A sale is an event, online or in hall where we present a wide range of vehicles. Access to our sales is reserved for professionals from the automotive industry. At BCA, we provide different type of sales:

• Bid now: this type of sale gives you the opportunity to place bids in online auctions, at any time of the day directly within vehicle detail page.
• xBid: Most of the bid now sales end with an X-Bid session which start 5 minutes after the first sale. It is a new opportunity to bid on the vehicle.
• Live Online:  An "In house" application which allows you to attend an auction from your home, either the auction takes place physically in "an auction place" or only online. You can hear the auctioneer and send a message to ask questions.
• Auction in hall: In Netherland, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal, some auctions take place in a hall so you can go there to bid and buy in person.
• Buy now: you can find and purchase vehicles online 24/7 at a fixed price.
• Sealed bid: You place a bid of the amount of your choice, you can modify this amount whenever you want. After the auction has ended the highest bidder receives a notification by email.

To register at BCA, fill in the online form, we'll call you back asap to learn more about you and ask you to provide a few documents. You can also register by calling the customer service.

In order to gain access to international auctions, you need to submit the following documents by mail to BCA.  

• Extract from trade register ≤3 months
• Copy of the ID Card of the company owner (front and back)
• If the buyer is not the owner: the purchasing power of attorney + copy of the ID Card of the buyer

It takes within 24 to 48 hours to register.

If after 48 hours of your online registration you have not received the activation email sent by the Customer service :

1. Check your spam box
2. If the email is not there, please contact the Customer service, from 8:00 to 17:00 to +46 (0)8 549 531 40 or by email

You should register with your local BCA subsidiary. If you came from a country where BCA is not present we will automatically assign your account to the team best placed to support you.

No, once you are registered in a BCA, you can get access to all international sales across Europe. Please contact your local center and request the access. Further information or documentation might be required.

At BCA's auctions, all bids are binding. If you win a vehicle, you are required to complete the deal and pay for the vehicle. 

The BCA website respects all the standard practices of online security. To bid and buy, all the users have to connect with secure passwords. The website uses the standard internet cryptographic Protocol SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), supplying a safety and an integrity of the data for the web communications.

You will be notified via email shortly after the end of the sale.

Furthermore, you will also find this information under MyBCA (with the exception of purchases done on Live Online)

Payment must be made by bank transfer within one (1) day. Please note that the purchase fee and payment information may vary depending on the country and the auction. 

Professionals can receive invoices without VAT under certain conditions. Please refer to the guide for more information.

Yes, BCA can help to deliver you the vehicle. For more details, please refer to the Delivery section.

Yes, BCA can help you to get some documents and deliver the vehicle abroad. For more details, please refer to the Export section.

At BCA we want to ensure your satisfaction. We have a dedicated team to process your claims. If after carefully studying our terms and conditions you would like to submit a claim, to do a claim go to this page.

You can open a claim if:

(a)    The vehicle has been or has been deemed to be condemned by a damages regulator without this being reported

(b)    Has a significantly higher odometer reading than stated on either through the sales description or through the photo of the odometer in the inspection

(c)    Has been driven significantly longer than the meter indicates

(d)    Has other external and / or internal damages that seriously affect the condition of the vehicle and  this has not been reported

You open a claim on the same website as you log in. Please refer to the country claim policy in the pdf guide to ensure the eligibility of your claim which depends on local rules.