DON’T HAVE YOUR VIN HANDY? START HERE!
You decide to find out what your car is worth, pull up a vehicle valuation site and start answering questions. Year? Easy. Make and model? You know those. Then comes the VIN, and suddenly you're wondering whether you need to walk outside, find your insurance paperwork or squint through the windshield trying to read a 17-character combination of letters and numbers.
Not with CarBuyerUSA. If you're simply trying to see your vehicle value, you can start without entering a VIN. Give us some basic information about your vehicle and see your value in 20 seconds, without turning a simple question into a scavenger hunt.
WHY DO VEHICLE VALUE TOOLS ASK FOR A VIN?
There's a legitimate reason VINs are useful. A Vehicle Identification Number identifies a specific vehicle and can help confirm important details about how it was originally equipped.
But there's a difference between information that may be needed to complete a transaction and information you should have to provide just to explore what your vehicle may be worth. Maybe you're sitting on the couch and the car is outside, you're at work when selling crosses your mind, or you're helping a family member decide what to do with an extra vehicle. Not having the VIN in front of you shouldn't stop the conversation before it starts.
WHAT CAN YOU DO WITHOUT THE VIN?
Quite a bit. CarBuyerUSA can start with basic vehicle information rather than requiring that 17-character number upfront.
What You May Have Right Now |
Enough to Get Started? |
|---|---|
Vehicle year |
Yes |
Make |
Yes |
Model |
Yes |
General vehicle information |
Yes |
VIN |
Not required to see your vehicle value |
Email address |
Not required to see your vehicle value |
And there's another convenience built into the process: you don't have to provide an email address just to see your vehicle value, either. Start with what you know, see the number on screen and decide from there whether you're interested in selling.
NO VIN DOESN’T MEAN THE VIN NEVER MATTERS
We want to be clear about that distinction. A VIN can become important as you move further into an actual sale because CarBuyerUSA will need to verify the specific vehicle and its information.
“No VIN” simply means you don't need it to take the first step. You can find out what your vehicle may be worth before gathering every document connected to it. If you're interested in moving forward, our team can then help guide you through what comes next.
SELLING A CAR DOESN’T NEED TO START WITH HOMEWORK
It's easy to make selling a vehicle feel like a major project before you've even begun. Titles, loan balances, paperwork, appointments and transportation can all come later. If your question right now is simply, “What's my car worth?”, that's the question you should be able to answer first.
Our team keeps that starting point simple. Enter the vehicle information you already know and get your vehicle value in 20 seconds. You don't need the VIN or an email address just to see it, and you don't need to spend your afternoon gathering paperwork before deciding whether selling makes sense.
IF YOU’RE READY TO SELL, WE’RE READY TO BUY
CarBuyerUSA isn't just another online valuation calculator. We're a nationwide vehicle buyer with 14 years in business and more than $1 billion in vehicles purchased. We buy across the country and come to the seller, eliminating the need to spend your day driving from dealership to dealership looking for a buyer.
Our team is also there to help with the details once you're ready to move forward. Because getting a value is useful—but turning your vehicle into an actual sale is probably why you started looking in the first place.
NO VIN? START WITH WHAT YOU KNOW.
Head to CarBuyerUSA.com, enter the vehicle information you have and see your vehicle value in 20 second, no VIN or email required to see it.
If that value tells you it's time to sell, you won't have to start another search for a buyer.
You've already found one.
