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The fine print
These are the standing rules of the house: what a bid means, what the deposit is, what we charge, and what we do not do. They are written to be read before you bid rather than after something goes wrong.
Last updated 5 September 2026.
A bid you confirm is an offer to buy that car, and we treat it as binding. Registration is per sale and includes a $500 refundable hold on your card. If you win, we invoice a buyer premium of 5% of the hammer price, never more than $5,000. The car itself is paid for and collected directly between you and the seller.
Everything below says the same things in more detail, plus the parts that only matter when something is unusual. Read how bidding works alongside this, and read the terms attached to the individual sale you are entering. Where the two differ, the sale terms win.
“We” and “Reggie’s Garage” mean the auction business operating this website from Seaside, California. “You” means whoever is using it, whether you are browsing, registered, bidding or consigning.
Using the site means accepting these terms. Registering for a sale means accepting these terms and that sale’s own conditions, which are shown to you at the point of registration and recorded against your registration with the version, the time and the address you accepted from.
You must be old enough to enter a binding contract where you live, and you must be bidding for yourself or for someone who has authorised you. An account is personal to you. Do not share your sign-in, and do not let somebody else bid under your name.
Browsing is open to everybody. Bidding is not. Approval is granted per sale, by a person, and being approved for one sale does not approve you for the next one. We can decline a registration, and if we do we will tell you the reason we recorded.
Registration includes a refundable authorisation hold of $500 on a card you supply. A hold is not a charge and not a payment toward the car: it reserves the amount against your available credit and it is released when the sale is over. If you do not win, we release it the same day. Your bank may take a few days after that to show the release, which is their timing rather than ours.
The hold can be captured rather than released if you win and then do not settle, or if you place bids you have no intention of honouring. That is the only reason it exists. Where a specific sale sets a different deposit amount, the sale’s figure applies and is shown to you before you confirm.
The card details themselves never reach our database. Vaulting and holds are handled by our payment processor; we store an identifier, the card brand and the last four digits so you can tell your own cards apart.
Every bid you confirm is an offer to buy that vehicle at that price, and you cannot take it back. If it is the winning bid when the lot closes, and the reserve is met, you have bought the car. Do not place a bid to see what happens.
Bids are recorded in an append-only ledger. Nothing in that ledger is ever edited or deleted, by us or by anybody else, and the database itself refuses the attempt. A correction is a new entry saying what was corrected, by whom and why, so the history reads as a sequence of events including its own corrections.
In rare cases a member of staff can retract a bid, for example an obvious keying error caught immediately or a bid placed by an account we later find should not have been bidding. A retraction is a decision we make, not a right you hold: asking is not the same as being granted. Every retraction is logged with the actor, the time and the reason, and the other bidders on the lot are told it happened.
If you think you have made a genuine mistake, tell us immediately through the contact page. Speed is the only thing that helps.
You can place a single bid at the next allowed amount, or set a maximum and let the platform bid on your behalf. It raises you one increment at a time, only as far as it has to, and never past your maximum. Setting a maximum does not mean spending it.
Your maximum is private. It is never shown to another bidder, never shown to the seller, and never appears in the public bid history. If two bidders set the same maximum, the one accepted first has priority.
The minimum raise steps up with the price:
| Current price | Minimum raise |
|---|---|
| Under $10,000 | $250 |
| $10,000 to under $50,000 | $500 |
| $50,000 and above | $1,000 |
The band is chosen by the price being raised from, so a bid that crosses a boundary uses the increment of the band it started in. A sale can set its own ladder, and the lot page always shows the raise that applies to that lot right now.
Timed sales run weekly and each lot has its own end time. A bid placed inside the final 2 minutes pushes that lot’s end time out by the same 2 minutes, and it does so as many times as bidding continues. There is no limit on extensions and a lot does not close while people are still bidding.
Our server’s clock decides. Not your device clock, not the countdown as your browser last drew it, and not the timestamp on an email or a text. The countdown on the lot page is our clock rendered for you, and if your connection drops it may be stale. If the price or the countdown stops moving, stop bidding until you have reloaded the page and can see current figures.
Live simulcast events run quarterly and are worked by an auctioneer in real time. Video from a live room can lag the bidding data by several seconds, so the current-lot status and the accepted-bid message on the platform are what you should act on. Never wait for the auctioneer’s voice in the video.
Most lots carry a reserve: a confidential minimum the seller has set, below which the car does not sell. The lot page tells you whether the reserve has been met. It never tells you the figure, and neither will we if you ask. Some lots are offered with no reserve and are labelled that way.
If bidding ends below the reserve, the lot is recorded as passed rather than sold, and the published result says so. We do not quietly make up the difference to a seller so that a pass can be reported as a sale. A sold price on this site is a price somebody actually bid.
After a pass, the seller may choose to talk to the underbidder privately. That is their business, it happens off this platform, and it does not change the published auction result.
If you win, we invoice a buyer premium of 5% of the hammer price, with a minimum of $250 and a hard cap of $5,000. The cap is absolute: above a hammer price of $100,000 the premium stops rising, so the fee on an expensive car is the same as the fee on a very expensive one.
The premium is the only fee we charge a buyer. It is invoiced after the sale, not taken in advance, and it is calculated in whole cents by the same code that renders the figure on how it works, so the page and the invoice cannot disagree.
Sales tax, registration, title fees, storage and transport are not ours to charge and are not included. They are settled by you, according to where you and the car are.
Where a particular sale sets different figures, the sale terms shown at registration are the ones that bind, and they are recorded against your registration.
We invoice the buyer premium and we introduce buyer and seller. From there, the purchase price for the vehicle, the title transfer, the collection and the transport are arranged directly between the two of you.
We do not hold the purchase money, we do not act as escrow, and we do not transfer title. Nobody at Reggie’s Garage will ever email you new wire instructions for the car itself. If you receive a message that claims to be from us and asks you to send money somewhere, do not act on it, and tell us through the contact page.
If a winning bidder does not settle, we can capture the deposit hold, cancel the sale, re-offer the lot, and decline that bidder’s future registrations. A seller who refuses to complete a sale that met its reserve will not consign here again.
Collector cars are used property, usually decades old, often modified, and frequently restored more than once. Every lot is sold as-is and where-is. Nothing on this site is a warranty of condition, mileage, originality, matching numbers, roadworthiness or fitness for any purpose.
We describe each car as accurately as we can from what the seller tells us and what we can see. Photographs, descriptions, condition notes and history are our honest account and not a guarantee. Estimates, where given, are opinion. Read everything, look at every photograph, and ask your questions before you bid rather than after.
You are responsible for satisfying yourself about a car, including any inspection you want to arrange. Winning a lot is not conditional on a later inspection.
If a car turns out not to be as described, that is settled between buyer and seller. We are not a dispute-resolution service and we do not adjudicate. We do want to hear about it, because it decides whether that seller consigns here again.
Submitting a car through consign is a request for review, not a listing. We take a small number of outside consignments and we turn down good cars that belong somewhere else.
If we do list your car, you must own it or be authorised to sell it, you must disclose what you know about its condition, history, modifications, faults and any lien, and you must be able to transfer clean title. Describing a car dishonestly ends the consignment and any sale under it.
You cannot bid on your own lot, and neither can anyone we have recorded as connected to you. The platform enforces this on every bid rather than trusting anyone’s word for it. Shill bidding is the thing this house exists to be trusted about; there is no version of it we tolerate.
Seller terms, including any commission, are agreed with you directly before your car is listed. They are not published here, because they are not the same for every car.
Comments on a lot are moderated. When something is removed, the removal carries a recorded reason and is logged. Sellers have a right of reply on their own lot. What gets removed is abuse, personal information, spam, and attempts to take a sale off the platform, not opinions about a car that a seller dislikes.
Do not attempt to interfere with the bidding: no automated bidding tools, no scripted access, no probing the site for weaknesses, and no coordinating bids with anyone to move a price. We can suspend an account, cancel bids placed by it, and refuse future registrations.
Keep your own account secure. Use a strong, unique sign-in, turn on multi-factor authentication when it is offered, and never share a verification code. Staff will never ask you for your password.
Outbid alerts, closing reminders and other messages are sent to help you, and they can be delayed or filtered by things outside our control. A missing alert is never a reason a bid did not have to be honoured, and it is never proof of what happened.
The platform’s own record is what counts: the lot page, your dashboard and the stored bid ledger. Message frequency varies by sale. Standard message and data rates may apply to text messages, and you can stop them at any time by replying STOP or from your dashboard.
We work hard to keep the platform up during a sale and we cannot promise it will never fail. Networks drop, providers have outages, and a browser tab can go stale without saying so. If a technical failure affects a lot materially, we may extend it, pause it, reopen it, or void and re-run it. That decision is ours, it is logged, and we will say what we did.
Except where the law does not allow it, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, including a lot you did not win because a message was late, a page did not load, or a connection dropped. The remedies described in these terms are what we offer.
Everything on this site, including the photography, descriptions and the design itself, belongs to us or to the people who licensed it to us. Do not scrape it, republish it or reuse it commercially without asking.
What we collect, why the bid ledger and the audit log cannot be edited or erased, how long records are kept and how to ask us about your own data are all set out on the privacy page. It is worth reading before you register, because the immutability of the ledger genuinely limits what deletion can mean here, and we would rather you knew that in advance.
Some things belong in a document like this and are genuinely not decided yet. Rather than write a plausible sentence and leave you to discover it was invented, here is the list:
This page is our plain-English statement of how the house works. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer, and it is not legal advice. When the items above are settled, this page will say so and the date at the top will change.
If anything here is unclear, ask before you bid rather than after. The contact page is the one official route to a person, and the help center answers the questions that come up most.