Every year, thousands of people buy a used car with a hidden past — a repaired flood title, a rolled-back odometer, structural damage under fresh paint. The tool that catches all of it exists and has for decades. The problem was never availability. It was price.
The $44.99 problem
A vehicle history report is the cheapest insurance in car buying — one accident record can save you thousands. But at $44.99 for a single report, the math quietly pushes people the wrong way. If you're comparing four cars, that's $180 in reports before you've bought anything. So most buyers do the rational-but-risky thing: they check only their final pick, or they skip the check entirely and trust the seller's word.
That gap — between how valuable the report is and how much its price discourages using it — is where bad used-car deals live.
What we actually do
Vehicle history reports are sold in volume at a fraction of the retail rate — that's how dealerships run one on every car on the lot. We source reports at that volume tier and pass the savings straight through: the same official Carfax report for $5, or as little as $3.20 per report in bundles. Same accident records, same title data, same service history, same document. The only thing we removed is the retail markup that was keeping people from checking.
We're an independent reseller — not Carfax, and we say so plainly. The reports are generated by CARFAX, Inc. and delivered exactly as they come, unmodified. If that sounds too cheap to be real, good instinct: we wrote a whole page on how $5 reports work and how to verify one yourself.
Beyond the report
We also built free tools that need no purchase at all — a VIN decoder and a recall checker, both running on official government data — because some of what you need to know about a car genuinely should be free. And we write plain-English guides on spotting flood cars, catching odometer fraud, and reading a report, so buyers walk in informed. The paid report is our business; helping people buy smarter is the point.
That's the whole idea. No subscriptions, no upsells, no fine print. Enter a VIN, pay $5, know what you're buying.