The Gulf's first car-buying service: a free valuation, a free inspection, and a guaranteed offer on your used car in 30 minutes.
PICTURED: The SellAnyCar.com wordmark - the front door to a business that buys the car itself, then auctions it to dealers. Founded 2013 by Saygin Yalcin, who earlier sold flash-sale club Sukar to Souq.com.
SellAnyCar.com buys used cars. Not a listing site where an owner waits weeks for a stranger to show up, and not a classifieds board where every message might be a scam - the company itself is the buyer. A seller enters a car's make, model, age and mileage into an online tool and gets a free market estimate in seconds. Then they drive to a branch, where an inspector checks the car and takes a short test drive. Within 30 minutes, the seller has a firm, guaranteed offer.
If the offer is accepted, payment goes out by electronic bank transfer and the company takes over the parts sellers dread: title transfer, deregistration, and settling any outstanding bank loan on the vehicle. The car then moves into a live auction where a network of dealers bids on it. The seller never meets the dealers, never haggles, and never handles paperwork.
The pitch is certainty. In a private sale, the questions are endless - what's it worth, who's serious, will the buyer vanish, is the cash real. SellAnyCar.com collapses all of that into one appointment. The valuation is free, the inspection is free, and there is no obligation to accept. A seller can walk away at the end at no cost.
Founded in Dubai in 2013, the company grew a branch network across the United Arab Emirates and later carried the model into Saudi Arabia. It positions itself as the Middle East's first and largest car-buying service - a claim built less on a clever app than on the operational discipline of inspecting, pricing, and paying, over and over, at speed.
Enter make, model, age and mileage online for a free instant estimate drawn from millions of prior quotes and sales.
Bring the car to a branch. An expert checks its condition and takes a test drive to set the real price - for free.
Receive a guaranteed offer within 30 minutes. Any make, model, age or condition qualifies after inspection.
Accept and get paid by bank transfer. The company handles paperwork, title transfer and loan settlement.
On the selling side: individual car owners in the UAE - and in Saudi Arabia through the company's local brand, Kayishha - who want a fast, safe sale without the friction of a private deal. On the buying side: a network of dealers and businesses that purchase the inspected vehicles at auction.
The company reports having bought and delivered more than 100,000 cars and operating 80-plus branches across some 29 cities in the region. That two-sided base - consumers supplying inventory, dealers absorbing it - is the engine that lets the guarantee work.
Selling a used car privately in the Gulf is slow and risky. Owners field no-shows, lowball offers, and - as the company has noted from reports of hundreds of scam incidents - outright fraud. Trade-ins bundle the sale price into a new-car negotiation, hiding what the old car is really worth.
SellAnyCar.com's answer is to separate and de-risk the sale: one inspection, one guaranteed price, cash by transfer, paperwork handled. The seller trades a slightly lower headline price for certainty and speed.
A free tool estimating market price from make, model, age, mileage and condition - marketed as fast as 15 seconds.
Since 2013Branch inspection and test drive producing a detailed condition report that sets the final offer.
Since 2013A firm offer to buy the car - any condition - within 30 minutes, paid by bank transfer.
Since 2013The inspected car is listed to a dealer network that bids, letting the market set the resale price.
Since 2013Sell for short-term cash and repurchase at a set price within 30, 60 or 90 days - pitched as a loan alternative.
Since 2013Title transfer, deregistration and outstanding bank-loan settlement handled on the seller's behalf.
Since 2013iOS and Android apps for valuations, booking inspections and managing the sale end to end.
2022The company's Saudi-market used-auto platform bringing the same buying service to the Kingdom.
2020The model is straightforward once you see where the money sits. SellAnyCar.com sources cars from consumers (B2C) and sells them to dealers (B2B). Its margin is the spread between what it pays the seller and what dealers pay at auction, plus ancillary services.
The free valuation and free inspection aren't generosity - they're top-of-funnel. They pull inventory in the door. Owning the transaction, rather than just hosting a listing, is what lets the company guarantee an offer at all: it controls both the buy price and the auction that resells the car.
That certainty is the product. A third-party estimate puts annual revenue near $77.7M; the company has not confirmed a figure.
Classifieds sites and marketplaces connect a seller to buyers and then step back. SellAnyCar.com steps in as the buyer. That single design choice - being the counterparty instead of the matchmaker - is what separates it from listing platforms and from the trade-in desk at a dealership.
Against classifieds like dubizzle Motors or YallaMotor, the difference is certainty: no waiting, no strangers, a guaranteed price. Against a dealer trade-in, the difference is transparency: the used car is valued on its own, not folded into a new-car negotiation where the number can be blurred. Against newer instant-buy rivals such as CarSwitch, Cars24 or Kavak, the company leans on being early, on scale, and on a guaranteed-purchase promise that accepts even damaged or written-off cars.
The strategy behind the free, no-obligation model is subtle. In a market where buyers have been burned, giving sellers a clean exit - decline the offer, owe nothing - is itself a trust signal. Certainty, not a marginally higher price, is what the company sells.
Saygin Yalcin founded SellAnyCar.com in 2013. Born in Bremen, Germany to Turkish parents, he studied international business management in the United States and once worked in sales and marketing for BMW before moving to the UAE in 2008.
His first venture, the flash-sale shopping club Sukar.com, launched in 2010 and sold to Souq.com in 2011 - the group later acquired by Amazon. He then did the harder thing and started again, this time in automotive.
Fortune named him to its 40 Under 40; Entrepreneur Middle East called SellAnyCar.com the region's fastest-growing company.
"SellAnyCar.com guarantees to buy any car - old, damaged or totaled - after a free expert inspection."
"Selling a car should take minutes, not weeks - with the price, the payment and the paperwork all settled in one visit."
Yalcin launches the Middle East's first online private shopping club.
The flash-sale club is acquired by Souq.com, later part of the Amazon group.
Positioned as the Middle East's first online car-buying service with a 30-minute guarantee.
Raises $35M led by Sanabil and enters Saudi Arabia under the Kayishha brand.
Announces a $122M expansion; reports 80+ branches across 29 cities and 100,000+ cars bought.
Updated iOS and Android apps bring valuation and selling to the phone.
Product demos, ads and founder interviews on the company's official channels.
You get a free online valuation, book a free inspection at a branch, and receive a guaranteed offer within 30 minutes. If you accept, the company pays by bank transfer and handles the paperwork; the car is then auctioned to dealers.
Yes. The company guarantees to purchase vehicles of any make, model, age or condition - including damaged or written-off cars - subject to the expert inspection.
Yes. Both the online valuation and the branch inspection are free and carry no obligation; you can decline the final offer and walk away at no cost.
It operates across the UAE with 25+ branches and expanded into Saudi Arabia under the "Kayishha" brand, with plans for further regional growth.
It was founded in 2013 by Saygin Yalcin, a Dubai-based entrepreneur who previously founded Sukar.com and sold it to Souq.com.
Profile compiled from public sources including The National, MenaBytes, Gulf Business, Arabian Business, Zawya, Crunchbase, Tracxn, Wikipedia and the company's own website. Figures such as revenue (~$77.7M) and total funding are third-party estimates and are not company-confirmed; the reported $1bn valuation reflected a fundraising ambition, not a confirmed round. Contact: saygin@sellanycar.com.