How an
acquisition works

A message, an email, or a brief through the site. The car, the budget, the timeframe, and the things you will not compromise on. If you are not sure of the exact variant yet, the requirement is enough to start.

No fee applies at this stage, or for reviewing and declining whatever we come back with. Nothing is owed until you complete on a car we sourced.

A dated and signed letter of intent is what turns an enquiry into something we can take to an owner. On company letterhead where that applies, it identifies the car or cars you want and the terms you would buy on.

In practice: who you are, the vehicle, variant and year range, the specification that actually matters, maximum mileage, condition and history requirements, the market specification where that matters, anything you want excluded, budget and currency, when you intend to complete and where the car is going, how long the letter stands, and your signature.

It is not a binding commitment to buy and it is not a payment. It is what lets us approach an owner with a documented buyer rather than an enquiry, and it is the reason owners take our calls.

Written authorisation confirming your appointed representative can communicate and negotiate on your behalf. Any purchase still remains subject to your final approval, which is precisely why it is written down.

If you would rather not be named at the outset, the letter of intent can be issued in your representative's name, or their company's, instead of yours. It has to arrive with proof of mandate. Without that it is an unnamed enquiry, and an unnamed enquiry does not reach an owner.

Where confidentiality matters, a non-circumvention and non-disclosure agreement allows a representative to hold the buyer's identity back at the early stage. You do not have to be named to start.

We do not work through broker chains. Where a car is being sought on spec rather than against a real mandate, we will say so and stop there.

We do not hold stock. We source against your requirement through direct relationships with owners, collections and specialists, which is why most of what we move has never been advertised anywhere.

We cannot guarantee that a matching car exists, remains available, or is offered at the price you expect. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something.

Specification, provenance, location, photographs of the actual car and price are released in stages, on terms the seller sets. Early on you get enough to know whether the car is worth your attention and not enough to identify it.

That is deliberate. Exact year, mileage, colour and country together pin a car to one chassis and one owner. Publishing them would cost us the relationship that made the car reachable.

Where a seller requires it, proof of funds forms part of their qualification process once a specific car is in play. On a small number of cars, the very rarest Ferraris, certain Bugattis and manufacturer allocations among them, a seller wants it alongside the letter of intent rather than after. We tell you that up front.

It is evidence of capacity and nothing more. Proof of funds is never a payment to CarSourced Group, and we do not hold your money at any stage, for any reason. If anyone asks you to send funds to us, it did not come from us.

Inspection, authentication, title, legal, tax, finance and import checks are yours and your advisers' to run. We will help arrange access and paperwork, and we will tell you what we know, but we do not certify a car and we are not a licensed financial or investment adviser.

At this level an independent marque specialist is worth what they charge. We would rather you brought one.

Payment for the vehicle is made directly to the seller. The contract is between you and them. We source the car and handle the acquisition on your side; we are not a party to the sale.

Our fee depends on the tier and the channel, is confirmed to you in writing before it applies, and falls due only on a completed purchase of a car we sourced.