Copart fee calculator
What you actually hand over when the hammer drops. No sign-up, no email, nothing to close.
| The car | $4,000 |
| Buyer fee | $485 |
| Online bid fee | $99 |
| Gate fee | $95 |
| Fees | $679 |
| You pay Copart | $4,679 |
Fees are 17% of your bid on this one. They do not scale evenly - the percentage falls as the bid climbs, which is why a cheap car is dearer than it looks.
Sales tax, the title fee, your state's rebuilt inspection and transport are not in here - those are not Copart's fees. On a real car they add up to more than the gate fee does.
Read this before you trust the number. This chart has not been checked line by line against Copart's own published fee schedule yet, so treat it as close rather than exact. Copart publishes the real one, and your own invoice is the final word. We would rather say this than let you find out at the counter.
The fees are the easy part
Anyone can add up a fee chart. The question that decides whether you keep your money is the one after it: what will this car cost to put back on the road, and is that less than it will be worth when you are done?
That is what CheckBids does. Paste the listing or share the photos, and it reads the damage, prices the parts, splits the labour into the hours you can do and the jobs that need a shop, adds the tax, title and inspection for your state, and tells you the most the car is worth paying - buy, caution, or walk away.
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Questions people ask
Yes, but not evenly. The fees are brackets, not a percentage, so they climb in steps and the percentage falls as the bid rises. A $500 car can carry fees worth more than the car; a $15,000 car carries proportionally far less.
Not for the lots marked public. Where a lot is dealer-only you can still buy through a registered broker, who charges their own fee on top of everything here.
Sales tax, the title fee, your state rebuilt inspection, and getting the car home. On a real car those usually add up to more than the auction fees do, which is the part people are caught by.