Four things happen on this site: cars are auctioned, cars are sold, vehicles are rented and a workshop comes to you in Lahore. Here is each one, start to finish, including the parts that cost money and the parts that need a person.
Five steps, and one of them is a person checking a payment.
We inspect it, photograph it, publish the report and run the sale.
A separate marketplace, Pakistan-wide, with or without a driver.
The workshop drives to the car instead of the car being towed to it.
Including the awkward ones. If yours is not here, call or WhatsApp the number in the footer, or email support@carbid.pk. A person answers.
From finding a car to the moment the clock stops and the keys change hands.
Four things, on one account. We run live auctions on used vehicles our team has inspected. We list vehicles for rent from rental businesses we have verified. We take your car to auction if you want to sell it. And we run a mobile workshop in Lahore that comes to wherever your car is.
Almost all of them, and the exceptions are labelled. Vehicles going to auction go through a 135-point physical inspection covering the engine, body, transmission, electricals and the papers, and the full report is on the listing. Sellers we have approved can publish directly without one, and those listings carry a clear 'not inspected by Carbid' notice on the card and on the page.
Open the auction you want and ask for bidding access. You send the amount shown to one of the accounts listed on that page, mobile wallet or bank transfer, and quote the reference you get back. A member of our team checks the payment arrived and approves you. It is a person looking, so it is not instant, and you are told in the app and by email either way.
Yes, and it comes back. The amount is set per auction and is shown on the listing before you ask for access. If you do not win it is refunded in full. If you win it comes off the price. Nobody can place a bid without being approved first, which is what stops an auction being run up by people who were never going to pay.
The clock extends. If a bid lands inside the final seconds of an auction, the closing time moves out again by the amount shown on that listing, and it keeps doing that until nobody bids. It means the highest bidder wins rather than the fastest connection, and it is why a Carbid auction can close a few minutes after its published time.
The lowest price the seller will accept. Bidding can go below it, but the car only sells if the highest bid reaches it. When an auction ends under the reserve we say 'reserve not met' rather than pretending it sold. Some auctions carry a 'no reserve' badge, which means the highest bid wins whatever it is.
On many listings, yes. Make an offer on the vehicle page and our team decides. An offer has to beat the current bid by a set margin, and that is checked again at the moment we accept rather than when you sent it. Accepting is provisional and bidding stays open until the payment is confirmed. Once it is, the auction closes, the car is yours and everyone else's deposit is returned.
You are notified in the app and by email, and a member of our team contacts you to arrange payment and the transfer. Your deposit is adjusted against the price. Ownership transfer and the balance are settled with our team directly, because the platform does not take card payments yet.
Yes. At a live sale you register at the desk, we give you a paddle number and our staff enter your bids at the rostrum. Room bids and online bids are the same auction and the same price on the same screen, and each bid records who placed it and how, so the history explains itself afterwards.
No. Carbid handles motorcycles, scooties, rickshaws, pickups, trucks, buses and vans, tractors, heavy machinery and trailers as well as cars. The details asked for follow the vehicle: a tractor is asked for engine hours rather than a distance travelled, and a container for its length.
What we do to your car before it goes on the block, and what it costs.
Create the listing with photos and the basics, then book the inspection. Our team inspects the vehicle, photographs it and writes the report. Once it passes you agree a reserve with us, we set the bidding rules and schedule the auction, and you are notified at every step through to the result.
It is a paid inspection, and the current price is shown on the booking form before you commit: one price if we come to you, a lower one if you bring the vehicle to one of our inspection points. The report belongs to the listing, so a buyer reads the same 135 points you paid for.
The inspection itself is usually booked for the next available day and the report is turned around in a day or two. After that the auction is scheduled with you rather than at you, because a sale nobody is watching is not much of a sale.
Only if our team has approved your account to do it, which we do for sellers and showrooms we know. Those listings are published with a plain 'not inspected by Carbid' label on the card and on the page, because the label matters more to a buyer than the badge does to a seller.
The make, model, year, colour, number plate and at least three photos. That is enforced by the system rather than by a reminder, because a half-finished listing wastes the buyer's time and gets no bids anyway.
Yes. Register your business, our team verifies it, and you get a public showroom page listing your stock plus a dense table for adding vehicles quickly rather than one photo card at a time. Verifying a business and letting it skip inspections are two separate decisions, so being verified does not by itself mean your cars go up uninspected.
The rental marketplace runs Pakistan-wide and is separate from the auctions.
Yes, and it is a different part of the site with its own listings. Pick your dates, choose whether you want a driver, and the price is worked out from the rental company's own published daily, weekly and monthly rates. You need an account, because a rental means a vehicle handed to a person for days at a time.
You book the dates and the vehicle is held. You pay the upfront to the account shown and quote the reference, our team confirms it arrived, and the booking becomes confirmed. Until it is confirmed the hold can lapse. Nothing is charged to a card on this site.
Once the booking is confirmed. Partner contact details are deliberately not on the public listing. It is not secrecy: a phone number on the page means every booking is arranged around the platform, and then nobody is accountable when a vehicle does not turn up.
Whichever the listing offers, and many offer both at different rates. The filter on the rentals page can narrow it to one or the other, along with the city, the number of seats, the vehicle type and your budget.
A workshop that comes to the car, anywhere in Lahore.
Lahore, city-wide. The call-out is Rs 3,000 anywhere in the city and labour carries a 30 day guarantee. It is meant for the jobs that do not need a ramp: batteries, brakes, filters, belts, diagnostics and the roadside breakdowns that would otherwise mean a tow.
Tell us whether you need somebody now, later today, or at a time you pick, and we schedule against that. Send the location with the pin on the form rather than typing an address if you are on the road, because the pin is what the technician actually navigates to.
Yes. Every workshop job has a tracking link our team sends you, and it shows the stage the job is at and who is coming, updating on its own. It does not need an account and it is not indexed by search engines.
The parts that are worth knowing before you commit to anything.
Not yet, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. Deposits, rental upfronts and offer payments are all paid to us or to the rental company out of band, and a member of staff confirms the payment arrived before anything is marked confirmed. Card payment through the platform is planned but is not built.
One account, two modes. You pick buying or selling when you join and can switch whenever you like from the menu, and the dashboard follows the mode you are in rather than showing you both at once.
The auction terms in force at that moment, which are printed in full at the bottom of every vehicle page. Bids cannot be retracted. We version the terms, so when something material changes you are asked to read and accept again before your next bid rather than being bound by a page you saw last year.
Call or WhatsApp the number in the footer, or email support@carbid.pk. A person answers. Failures on the site are logged for our team as well, so if a page broke while you were signing up or bidding, we can usually see what happened without you having to describe it.
