How to earn on cars in transit
How it works
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Bought a car through Zviger
02
Listed it in cars in transit
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The car reached the warehouse
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Made a video walkaround
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Sold the car
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Put the money back to work
With the classic reselling model you have to wait for the car to be delivered to the destination country, clear customs, buy parts, repair the car and prepare it for sale. Months can pass between the purchase and getting your money back.
Cars in transit lets you start selling the car much earlier — before it arrives in the destination country.
Your job is to find a promising car, buy it at the right price and set the resale price. Zviger provides the infrastructure for the purchase, the logistics and the listing.
Three reasons buyers pick you fast
No pig in a poke
Order a video walkaround — we film the car at the warehouse and put the video on the lot card. The buyer sees the real condition, not just auction photos, and decides faster.
Weeks saved
The buyer doesn't spend weeks hunting for a lot, waiting for the auction and risking a loss. The car is already bought and already in transit — closer than any auction lot.
Markup up to 10%
We recommend no more than 10% over the auction price. At that level cars sell in days and the marketplace stays a place people come back to. Inflated prices kill turnover — yours and everyone's.
Fast turnover beats the highest price on a single deal.
An example of the economics
Car purchase
$ 20 000
Sale price
$ 22 000
Potential margin
$ 2 000
The main advantage of the model is not only the potential margin but the speed of capital turnover. Instead of waiting months for shipping, customs, repair and the sale that follows, a seller can find a buyer much earlier and put the returned money into the next deal.
These figures are an example calculation. The margin and the time to sell depend on the car, the purchase price and demand — the result is not guaranteed.
Your lot enters Zviger's buyer flow
You don't need to look for a buyer or pay for ads. The listing spreads automatically across all our channels — where people already look for cars from the USA:
The Zviger website catalogue
People come here for cars from the USA every day — your lot sits in the shared listing alongside ours
Zviger apps — mobile and desktop
Clients use the catalogue wherever they like — phone or computer — and get notified about new arrivals
Social media
Cars-in-transit roundups go out on our accounts — with a video walkaround it works best of all
You bring the right car — we bring the buyer to it.