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See what a Copart lot sold for at its previous auctions, who sold it, and what the title says - before you bid. Cheap is easy to find on Copart. Cheap and genuine is not. You are here to find a car worth far more than the bid. The hard part is telling a real one from a car that has already been through this auction once, been cleaned up, and put back in at a markup. The information that separates them is public — it is just not on the lot page you are looking at. A real example, on Copart right now A 2024 Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT. Estimated retail value $189,895. Buy it now for $125,500. The photos show a spotless car: matte black, gold wheels, clean leather, shot indoors on the white backdrop. It looks like $64,000 off a Porsche. An insurance company sold that same car, on Copart, in February — for **$86,000**. Since April a non-insurance seller has run it through the auction **39 times without selling it**. And February's photographs are public too. They show mould blooming across the rear interior trim, contamination along the rear seatbelt webbing, and silt on the dashboard of a car with 2,481 miles on it. It is a flood car in both listings. Nothing was repaired in between. It was washed. That is the entire product: it puts the first set of facts on the page where you are looking at the second. Auction history One click shows whether this exact vehicle has been auctioned before, what it actually sold for, who sold it, and how many times it has failed to sell. Before-and-after photo comparison When a previous sale exists, the extension pulls that listing's photographs and sets them beside today's, matched angle for angle. You see what the car looked like when the insurer let it go — and what has changed since, whether that is a repair or a pressure washer. Instant lot intelligence — no clicks, no cost The moment you open a lot, five signals appear: - Seller type — insurance company, lender, rental fleet, dealer, charity - Title brand — with a hard warning on Certificate of Destruction, Non-Repairable, Junk and Parts-Only titles, which can never be registered again in any state - Document status — in hand, delayed, or bill-of-sale only - Drive status — run and drive, starts, or nothing - Sale terms — pure sale, or on approval where the seller can refuse your winning bid AI damage inspection Sends the listing photos to Claude or Gemini and works through an inspector's tell list: overspray on weatherstripping, paint texture mismatch, uneven panel gaps, fresh fastener marks, mismatched lamps, airbag cover fitment, rotor rust against claimed mileage, silt in the spare well. Built to be honest It states problems with certainty and refuses to state their absence. A Certificate of Destruction is unregisterable, full stop — but "no prior sale found" is reported as exactly that, not as proof the car is clean, because auction archives are incomplete. It will never tell you a car is a good buy, and it will never tell you what to bid. You bring your own API key There is no subscription and no account. You add a Claude or Gemini API key and pay that provider directly for what you use — roughly $0.01 to $0.14 per inspection depending on the model you pick. The auction history lookup is free and needs no key at all. On data Your API key, your photographs and the lots you look at never reach us, and there is no account. The extension does send anonymous diagnostics so that a Copart page change gets noticed before it breaks the tool for everyone, and it will ask once — plainly, with a real no — whether it may also send anonymous usage data. Never VINs, lot numbers, prices or URLs. Both switches are in the popup, and the privacy policy lists every field that can ever be sent. Not affiliated with Copart, Inc.