About Secondhand Hero
“I was excited driving my new purchase home. It stranded me on the roadside with a $7k transmission failure.”
Many private sale cars on marketplaces have no right to be driven let alone sold to an unsuspecting buyer. Of the 1934 cars that RAA inspected, more than 330 had severe and undisclosed issues. The unsuspecting buyer feels regret about their purchase, anger that they’ve been cheated, and worry about the cost of repairs.
No one deserves to be ripped off. I spent the last 6 months interviewing mechanics, reading dozens of articles, and legal resources to make buying a private sale car as bullet proof as possible. Our mission is to help buyers find reliable cars that just work.