The same car. Two prices.
The car in a dealer showroom and the car at a Japanese auction are usually the same car. Nine out of ten auction cars come to Cyprus through one exporter. Nothing special happens on the way: port, ship, customs, registration. The price changes at the last step, here on the island, and nobody shows you that number.
SkipDealer calculates it. The service collects the results of the Japanese auctions and breaks the final Cyprus price into its parts: auction fee, freight, import duty, VAT, port charges, broker, registration — a clean price with no middleman markup.
Every day at 19:19 a digest of the cars you follow arrives in your Telegram or the app, with all the details.
First, the cars sold today. The deal is closed, so the landed price is exact, down to the euro: a 2024 BMW 1 Series went for ¥1,865,000, which is €17,391 in Cyprus.
Then the more interesting part: the cars going to auction tomorrow, with a price forecast based on similar cars sold recently. On those you still have time to place a bid.
You buy the car yourself, and SkipDealer walks you through every step: how to place a bid, who to pay and when, what to file at customs, how to register the car. At each step you get verified contacts: the exporter, the customs broker, the shipping company, the MOT centre. Your money for the car never passes through the service: you pay SBT Japan and Cyprus customs directly. The support costs €699, and that is the whole amount SkipDealer receives.
There are two alternatives, and both cost more
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1
A dealer
The car is already on the island, you can sit in it and drive away, but the price is the local one, with the markup built in and the car's history unclear.
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2
A private agent
Brings a car to order, adds €3,000–5,000 or even more on top, asks for 20 to 100% upfront into their own account, and leaves you with no control over the process.
Everything in SkipDealer rests on transparency. Information reaches you directly, with nothing lost or twisted on the way: the condition of the car is described by an independent state-licensed inspector at the Japanese auction, the grade is honest, the mileage is real and nobody can wind it back. You can follow the ship on a map, and the broker clears customs in 2–3 days. Nothing sits in someone else's hands, and at any moment you know which step your car is on.
What you pay with is time: 6–8 weeks at sea. That part is the same for everyone.
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