Bid, buy and sell vehicles: the online auction house for the trade

An online auction house for vehicles, strictly B2B: professional dealers bid on documented vehicles in time-limited auctions — comparable to an auction platform like eBay, but with a verified circle of participants and clear auction rules. At present every auction vehicle comes from our own MKAA stock; the plan is for dealers to also auction their own stock to the dealer circle at a later stage.

Only professional car dealers with valid proof of trade. After registration we verify your details and activate your access — usually within one working day.

Registration, vehicle search and bidding are free and there is no buyer’s premium. The amount bid is the net purchase price; where VAT is chargeable it is added at the statutory rate. Whether VAT can be shown for a given vehicle is stated in its listing: under the margin scheme no VAT can be shown; an intra-Community supply to a business may be invoiced exempt from tax.

Standard runtime of 48 hours with a visible countdown. Every bid is hidden: you see the number of bidders and when the last bid was placed, but never the amount, company name or identity of the others. Your own standing — "you are the highest bidder" or "you have been outbid" — stays visible at all times; by default an e-mail also tells you when you are outbid, and you can switch that notice off as you bid. Your bid is a net amount with no automatic proxy bidding. A minimum bid increment of €100 can be switched on; it is currently switched off. At the weekend the auction clock pauses, so the remaining time stays put. The seller grants the award; an automatic award to the highest bid can be enabled per auction. We can additionally switch off the number of bidders and the time of the last bid — you then see your own bids only.

No. From Saturday 08:00 until Monday 08:00 the auction clock is paused — a span of exactly 48 hours. Not a single one of the 48 bidding hours is used up in that window, and the end time shifts back by exactly that span. In practice that means a 48-hour auction running across the weekend ends at the very time of day it was listed — just four days later instead of two, while an auction that never touches the pause ends after 48 hours by the wall clock as usual. You can still place bids perfectly normally over the weekend; only the countdown stands still. The reason: not every business is staffed at the weekend, and nobody should miss out on a vehicle for that reason alone.

Currently exclusively from MKAA direct purchasing in Luxembourg — every auction vehicle therefore comes from our own verified stock and is fully documented. The plan is to open the platform to registered dealers, who can then list their own stock in addition.

That is planned, but not yet enabled: at present we auction vehicles from our own MKAA stock exclusively. Register as a dealer now — we will let you know as soon as listing your own vehicles becomes possible. The intended process: create the listing with photos and a condition report, the dealer circle bids for 48 hours, and you decide freely on the award — with no obligation to sell.

You receive an award confirmation and arrange the handover: since every auction vehicle currently comes from MKAA stock, you collect it at our Roost or Bertrange sites. We issue the invoice as soon as the vehicle has arrived at MKAA — where a vehicle arrives later, the date is stated in its listing. From the invoice date you have 7 days to pay and 14 days to collect; the payment must have arrived by the time you pick the vehicle up at the latest. Vehicle documents and the handover protocol are ready when you arrive.