Online sweet shop for car enthusiasts

A Peugeot 205 GTI, a Ferrari F40 or a Porsche 993 Carrera S. All cars that you don't necessarily need, but you do want. Auction site The Collectables makes it possible to buy cars of this class, but also to offer them. Text: Fleur de Jong
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Only genuine collectables

There has never been an online car auction of this size in the Netherlands before. Inspired by the American Bring a trailer private car enthusiasts Joris Roozen, Tom Verkooijen en Wouter Karssen that it was time to bring this car auction to the Netherlands. The founders want to make the buying and selling of collectables as transparent as possible through an auction. According to car enthusiasts, the auction mechanism in the most fair form of supply and demand creates transparent and market-based prices. 

As a buyer of many dozens of cars on the other side of the counter, Tom Verkooijen has seen how transactions can be done better, more pleasantly and financially smarter. Together with Joris and Wouter, he wants to realize this, so that car enthusiasts can focus on the benefits and not the burdens. Anyone who thinks that it is a convenient place to sell their second-hand car is wrong. The men behind the platform look carefully at which car can be offered and which cannot. It must be a real Collectable that has not been tinkered with too much and preferably also with a good and honest story.  To make the purchase and sale as transparent as possible, each car offered has this information 150 photos so that every possible scratch can be seen and you can view your potential collectable from all angles. According to Wouter, you should be able to buy the car without having seen it in real life. As a buyer you pay a 6% commission on top of the purchase amount. This amount is never higher than 6.000 €. According to Roozen, this is much lower than the average commissions charged on other platforms. 

Op the website you can see which cars are currently on offer, but is also very suitable for car enthusiasts to feel like a child in a candy store.