British Car Auctions is part of BCA Marketplace plc, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange. We are bringing together used car buyers and sellers. We sell more than one million vehicles annually and are Europe’s largest vehicle remarketing company.

We are managing used car sales around 50 centres across 10 countries: France, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, Sweden and the UK.

We develop partnerships with many contributors, sometimes exclusively, to offer a wide selection of cars. Vehicles for sale come from dealer trade-in, finance and leasing houses, rental companies, manufacturers, fleet operators and public administrations among others. BCA features a unique used vehicle stock.

We sell a wide variety of cars, Light Commercial vehicles, Company Vehicles, damaged cars, non-runners, motorcycles and even trucks and machinery! The vehicle type is mentioned on the vehicle detail page.

In the menu, you can either search for a specific vehicle in stock or search for a sale in the calendar. The calendar will contain a selection of similar vehicles to offer you a larger choice.

A sale is an event, online or in hall where we present a wide range of vehicles. To access online sales, you must be registered and connected. At BCA, we provide different type of sales:

• Bid now: this type of sale gives you the opportunity to place bids in online auctions, at any time of the day directly within vehicle detail page.
• xBid: Most bid now sales end with a  X-Bid session which start 5 minutes after the first sale. It is a new opportunity to bid on the vehicle.
• Live Online:  An "In house" application which allows you to attend an auction from your home, either the auction takes place physically in "an auction place" or only online. You can hear the auctioneer and send a message to ask questions.
• Auction in hall: In the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal, some auctions take place in a hall so you can go there to bid and buy in person.
• Buy now: you can find and purchase vehicles online 24/7 at a fixed price.
• Sealed bid: Place a bid of the amount of your choice and you can modify this amount whenever you want. After the auction has ended the highest bidder receives a notification by email.

The access to our sales is reserved for professionals from the automotive industry.

To register at BCA, fill in the online form, we'll call you back ASAP to learn more about you and ask you to provide a few documents. You can also register at BCA when you come to an auction in hall or simply call us.

For clients from abroad (NON Spanish company) 

Any vehicle or auction visible in our website is open to accredited buyers in any BCA in Europe. To be accredited you must:

Be fully registered as a trade buyer with a BCA country. 

If it is a new registration you should send BCA Spain the following documents: 

• Trade Register/business registration (company details)
• Company Owner or the name of the person in the Deeds
• Copies of the owner's ID cards/passports (showing name, address and photo ID).
• VAT tax ID number.

If you want to satisfy registration requirements to qualify for VAT-Free invoices for international sales, please see information about international sales.

Delivering this information to BCA will enable all trade buyers to participate in both National and International sales open to International buyers.

If your company is registered in Spain: 

The documents required to register are: 

It takes within 24 to 48 hours to register, check your documentation and send you your login.

If after 48 hours of your online registration you have not received the activation email sent by the Customer service :

1. Check your spam box
2. If the email is not there, please contact the Customer service, from 8:30 to 18:00 to +33 143 996 380 or by email

You should register with your local BCA subsidiary. If you came from a country where BCA is not present we will automatically assign your account to the team best placed to support you.

No, once you are registered in a BCA, you can get access to all international sales across Europe. Please contact your local team and request the access. Further information or documentation might be required.

During our online sales, each of your bids commits you. All the bids are active until the end of the auction. If you win a vehicle, you are obliged to go ahead with the transaction. During an auction in hall, if you raise your hand and the auctioneer accepts the bid, this is legally binding and cannot be revoked.

Depending on the sale and BCA country, you might have access to this information before the auction starts. You will find it on the vehicle detail page.

The BCA website respects all the standard practices of online security. To bid and buy, all the users have to connect with secure passwords. The website uses the standard internet cryptographic Protocol SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), supplying a safety and an integrity of the data for the web communications.

You will be notified via email shortly after the end of the sale.

Furthermore, you will also find this information under MyBCA (with the exception of purchases done on Live Online)

You have to pay the vehicle hammer price and buyer fees. You must pay by bank transfer in the next 2 days. Please note that buyer fees and payment details are different depending on the country sale management.

Professionals can receive invoices without VAT under certain conditions. Please refer to the guide for more information.

Full and irrevocable payment for the vehicle and associated charges are required before BCA will release the vehicle.  Since some international money transfers take more than 3 working days; we advise you to contact our teams to confirm if the money is in BCA Spain's account.

Once payment is made, the vehicle is usually available immediately.  Bear in mind there are some vehicles that are not in our compounds and some days are needed to have them available to be picked up.  These cases are announced in the auctions.

ATTENTION:  In accordance with BCA’s directives, we inform you that as from the 1st of September, all vehicles purchased by clients from abroad at BCA Spain will only and exclusively be picked up by a transport company with a license and with a valid CMR or DUA.  It is mandatory that the transport company be completely different from the buyer.  Therefore, and from that date, pick-ups by individuals who have no accreditation as a transport company will not be possible, even if these individuals are the legal representatives of the purchasing company.

 You will find the details of your vehicle's location in the vehicle´s detail page in My BCA. To get the local center details and opening hours, please check the location page.

Yes, BCA can help to deliver you the vehicle. For more details, please refer to the Delivery section.

Yes, BCA can help you to get the necessary documents and deliver the vehicle abroad. For more details, please refer to the Export section.

At BCA we want to ensure your satisfaction. Thus why we have a dedicated team to process your claims. If after carefully studying our terms and conditions you would like to submit a claim, please follow the process below or contact us on +34 949 0321 68

In Spain, you can open a claim for vehicles that have an issue which was not annouced by the auctionneer during the sale or not mentioned in the vehicle detail page or mechanical report or other attached document. We will consider claims on mechanical elements for vehicles with less than 250,000 km and than 10 years. Vehicles sold under Sold as Seen status 'Venta en Estado' can’t be subject of complaint.

You open a claim on the same website as you log in. Please refer to the country claim policy in the pdf guide to ensure the eligibility of your claim which depends on local rules.