A phone quote well above everyone else's
Especially one given without a single question about condition. The truck arrives and the number falls. Ask what the quote is based on — a real buyer will say weight, completeness, converter, distance.
A towing charge
Free towing is standard for junk vehicles in this market. A tow fee deducted at the kerb is a price cut in disguise.
Vagueness about payment
Ask directly: cash or check, and paid when. The answer should be simple, and it should happen before the car is loaded.
No physical address
A buyer with nowhere to be found is harder to hold to anything. Ask where they operate from and check that it exists.
Pressure to decide immediately
No legitimate offer on a junk car expires in four minutes.
Nobody mentions paperwork
Ask how the vehicle comes out of your name. A buyer with no answer is not protecting you.
One fair caveat
A phone quote rests on your description, so it is an estimate until the vehicle is seen. That is normal. What is not normal is a large unexplained drop at the kerb on a car you described accurately.
Want a figure on your car?
We are at 3916 S Lake Park Ave and the phone is answered 24 hours: (224) 591-5855. Free tow across Chicago, the south suburbs and northwest Indiana.
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Tell us what you have
One call, one figure, one truck. We are on Lake Park at 39th and we run around the clock.