[Jeff H]

This is a tough situation for any auction house. How do you offer some form of protection for the buyer when we all know there are a bunch of unscrupulous sellers/builders out there? The only possible solution might be to require some form of verification process but that might require an extended amount of time with each car for sale and a team of experts to review the car and document the key items with pictures, etc. That doesn't seem realistic when you look at the number of auctions available to take your car to. Aside from that, maybe there should be some time period after the auction to allow a followup inspection by the auction house(to make sure the buyer didn't do anything to the car) before allowing the full exchange of funds and vehicle. This still doesn't seem very realistic based on the numbers of sellers/buyers/cars. I've never been to an auction so I can't even offer a real point of view but I think this subject needs to be addressed soon. I just can't imagine how you would allow a potential buyer to inspect hidden VIN's before any bidding. And I don't think the problem is GM specific, even the Fords and Mopars with the engine code in the VIN are being messed with. That's my 2 cents if it's even worth that nowadays.