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Curated auctions
Sell your coach at auction
For exceptional coaches, a curated auction brings serious buyers to one place at one time. We review your coach, have it inspected, photographed and filmed, set the reserve with you, and handle the questions and viewings. The buyer pays you directly.
Start the review How bidding works
What qualifies
The coach
Class A diesel pushers, Prevost and other bus conversions, and top-end Super C coaches, usually worth $150,000 or more. Older coaches with a real following (Wanderlodge, Newell, early Prevost conversions) are welcome.
The paperwork
A clean title in your name, or your lender's payoff letter, and your ID. Service records if you have them; they raise prices.
The condition
Runs and drives, available for an inspection and a half-day photo and video session, and honestly described. Coaches with known problems can still qualify: they are disclosed, not hidden.
Not every coach is accepted. A coach that is not right for an auction can be offered at a fixed price instead.
The review
Tell us about your coach
A short message through our contact form: year, make and model, miles, where it is, and a link to a few photos. About 10 minutes.
A call with the concierge
We talk through the coach, check the title and your ID, and say yes, no, or "a fixed price would suit it better", within 3 business days.
Inspection, photos and video
An approved independent inspector, from the list the concierge keeps, checks the coach where it sits. A photographer shoots the full shot list (about 70 photos) and a walk-around video. You pay them directly, at the price they quote before they come.
Set the reserve, or go without one
A reserve is the lowest price you will accept, set with the concierge from what similar coaches have sold for. It stays secret. You may lower it during the sale, never raise it. A coach with no reserve wears a "No reserve" badge, which draws bidders.
Approve your coach's page
We write the page from the inspection and your records. Nothing goes up until you approve it.
Preview week, then seven days of bidding
Registered buyers see the full inspection, ask questions and book viewings. The concierge handles all of it and keeps you posted.
What you pay Introductory
The review
Free
No cost to apply or to talk it through.
Entry fee
$495
Paid once your coach is accepted. Credited back against the success fee if your coach sells.
Success fee
3%
Of the winning bid, at least $5,000 and never more than $25,000. Billed after the buyer has paid you.
Inspection, photos, video
Quoted
Paid by you straight to the inspector and photographer, at the price they quote first.
| If your coach sells for | 3% would be | Your success fee | Left to pay after the $495 credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| $150,000 | $4,500 | $5,000 (the minimum) | $4,505 |
| $795,000 | $23,850 | $23,850 | $23,355 |
| $1,200,000 | $36,000 | $25,000 (the most it can be) | $24,505 |
Buyers pay no fee. If the reserve isn't met, you owe nothing more; the concierge can take your counteroffer to the top bidder, and if that sells, the same success fee applies.
These introductory fees apply to the first sales and may change for later ones. The fees for your coach are confirmed in writing when it is accepted.
The money
The buyer pays you directly, by bank wire, or through Escrow.com if you and the buyer choose it (its fees follow Escrow.com's own schedule, and who pays them is agreed between you and the buyer). Motorcoach.direct never holds the sale money and never appears on a bidder's card statement. To take the bidders' $10,000 deposit holds, you connect your own payment account; the holds go to you, not to us.
Timeline
Start the review
The button opens our contact form with a short list to fill in: year, make and model, the converter for a bus conversion, mileage, where the coach is, the title, whether you want a reserve, a link to a few photos, and anything we should know. Add your name and email and press Send. The concierge replies within 3 business days.
Your message goes through the OnePlace.direct contact form that all our sites share. We use your email address only to reply to you.
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