IAA and Copart fee structures are very similar.

We used to buy a few vehicles from IAA, but when they revamped their 'rules' a few years ago, we quit entirely. The two biggest reasons that we quit were that the vehicles were only available to review one day a week for a couple of hours which was NOT on sale day and that you could not start the vehicles. Both Copart and IAA facilities are near each other east of St Louis which is about 90 minutes from us. So one trip to only look at the vehicles and then another trip to pick up the purchases besides not being able to hear them run, will not work for us.

Copart still allows us to check out the cars during normal working hours and we can start them up. So in one trip, we can check out the vehicles and take home our purchases. But Copart is making it much more difficult to do that. I will spare you the details, but it is obvious that they are moving towards IAA's way of doing things. If they do, I am not sure what the best way to navigate that will be. It just gets to be such a pig-in-a-poke buying process that the unexpected surprises and expenses will surely mount up. But frankly, we are in the minority on this as most buyers do not inspect their prospective purchases. We only see a small handful of people looking at the vehicles on sale day. And more and more, the vehicles are not even in an area that is accessible to us. So................