CarBluff

CarBluff checks a used-car listing for the signs of a scam before you reply, meet, or pay anything. FREE SCAM CHECK, NO ACCOUNT Paste the ad text or the listing link. In seconds you get a 0-100 scam safety score and every red flag it found, in plain words, with what to do next. When a flag comes from the ad's own wording, you see the exact phrase. Scans are free and unlimited, and you do not need an account. CarBluff looks for the moves used-car scams depend on: - Payment by gift card, wire, or crypto - A deposit or fee before you see the car - Shipping, escrow, or "buyer protection" stories - Refusing a test drive, a video call, or your own mechanic - A missing or salvage title, or a loan still owed on the car - A price far below similar cars with no reason given FREE RECALL CHECK When the ad includes a VIN, or you type one in, CarBluff checks NHTSA's recall records for that year, make, and model, and gives you a question to send the seller about each recall. YOUR GARAGE, FREE Create a free account to save the cars you are weighing and move each one through your own pipeline, from Watching and Contacted to Bought or Passed. Free accounts track up to 5 cars. THE FULL REPORT, ONE CREDIT PER CAR Unlock a car's Full Report to see: - A Deal Score that compares the asking price with real comparable listings - Where most comparable cars are priced, and how far this one sits from that - A condition read on upkeep risk for that model, age, and mileage - An overall buy-or-walk verdict When there are too few comparable listings to be honest about, CarBluff shows no Deal Score instead of guessing. SELLING A CAR? Grade your own listing for free and see what a cautious buyer will look for. The one-time Seller Pass then adds, for that listing: the specific fixes that raise your grade, a finished description written by the AI Copilot, a list price from real market data, a CarBluff-Verified page and badge, and help replying to buyer messages. PRICING, ONE TIME ONLY - Scam checks and recall checks: free and unlimited - Full Report credits: 1 for $2.99, 5 for $9.99, or 15 for $19.99. One credit unlocks one car for good. - Lifetime: $199.99 once. Every Full Report, an uncapped Garage, and unlimited Seller Passes. - Seller Pass: $19.99 once, for one listing There is no subscription and nothing renews. PRIVACY, PLAINLY The scam score itself is worked out on your phone. Some features do use the internet: a pasted link is fetched through our server; the free price check sends only the year, make, model, mileage, and price; recall checks send the VIN to NHTSA; the free seller grade sends the listing details you type, including a VIN if you add one, to our server to be scored; the Full Report sends the listing to our server to price it; your Garage is kept on your CarBluff account; and the AI Copilot sends what you give it to OpenAI to write its answer. The privacy policy has the details. CarBluff scores known scam patterns in the ad. It cannot inspect the car itself, so always see the car, check the title, and use your own mechanic before you pay. Questions or a scan we got wrong: [email protected]