Example listing — built on our own car
This is what a DC Auto Services listing looks like: the full specification, the photographs in order, and the disclosures in the open — built on our own car, so you can judge the standard before you pay anything. Read it the way a bidder would. It is an example, not a live listing; the car is not offered for sale.
Why this page exists
Specification, history, condition, records, photographs and video — the whole submission, exactly as a platform receives it. Not a sample paragraph.
Each statement traces to a photograph in the set or a document in the dossier — nothing is claimed that the package can’t back up.
Known items appear in the open, and anything a seller still has to supply is flagged as exactly that — never filled in, never guessed. That restraint is the product.
The car
This 2021 BMW M2 Competition (F87) is finished in Black Sapphire Metallic over Black Dakota leather with blue contrast stitching. It was built in Leipzig, Germany, and its original MSRP was $63,890, from the build data held in the dossier.
Power comes from a twin-turbocharged inline-six — the “M Power” engine cover and carbon fiber strut brace are both visible in the engine-bay photograph — driving the rear wheels through a 6-speed manual transmission. The gear lever, the manual shift pattern and the M1/M2 preset buttons on the M Performance steering wheel are all shown in the interior set, because on a car like this, those are the photographs bidders zoom in on.
| Year / model | 2021 BMW M2 Competition (F87) |
|---|---|
| Engine | Twin-turbocharged inline-six, “M Power” engine cover, carbon fiber strut brace |
| Transmission | 6-speed manual |
| Drive | Rear-wheel drive |
| Exterior | Black Sapphire Metallic |
| Interior | Black Dakota leather with blue contrast stitching; perforated seat centers; carbon fiber interior trim across the dash and center console |
| Factory equipment | Executive Package · Carbon Fiber Rear Spoiler · BMW M Performance steering wheel, Alcantara-wrapped, with M1/M2 preset buttons · M sport seats with M2 badges |
| Wheels | 19″ M Forged Black wheels (style 788M); large drilled brake discs front and rear |
| Brakes | M Sport Brakes with gray calipers |
| Built | Leipzig, Germany |
| Original MSRP | $63,890 |
| Location | Jacksonville, Florida |
The write-up
On a live listing, this is where the dossier speaks: the car’s specification, its equipment and its condition, presented in the order a bidder reads them — every claim traceable to a photograph in the set or a document in the file. Bidders reward a presentation that adds up — and they check. Nothing here is filled in from memory, and nothing is rounded in the car’s favor.
This page is a format demonstration, so it shows the structure and the standard — the same structure your listing will follow. What a bidder needs to judge the car itself is all here: the specification above, the condition below, and the photographs and video after that.
The car serves as the DC Auto Services example vehicle, which is why it is documented here in this depth.
On a live listing, this section carries the service history assembled in the dossier — invoices and receipts with personal details redacted, history reports, and the build data. For this example, the build data is on file; that is where the specification above comes from. The remaining items are the ones we ask every seller to supply — and on this example they are shown exactly as they would appear if a seller hadn’t provided them yet:
Every DC Auto intake asks for the items below. Until a seller provides them, the listing says so — it never fills the gap:
That is the standard we’ll hold your listing to as well — and it starts with what we ask you for. See the full list in our seller guides.
Condition & disclosures
Work through the photographs and the presentation is the story: the paint and panels as photographed, the cabin, the seats, the clean engine bay. Nothing in the set is cropped or lit to hide condition — edits are crop and lighting only, the same rule that will apply to your photographs. And what a camera can’t show is stated here instead:
Known item, in the open: the charge pipe is a recognized weak point on this model. On a live listing, an item like this — a known weak point, a part on order, a repair pending — appears here with its status stated, because bidders ask, and the dossier answers first.
“Where a fact is not yet proven, the package says so instead of filling the gap. That restraint is the product.”
How every DC Auto package is built
Photographs
The set runs the way a buyer thinks: what the vehicle looks like from the curb, what it is like to sit in, and whether the mechanical presentation matches the story. This is the opening set we ask every seller to shoot — up to 15 key photographs, straight from their phone, sequenced by us. Our photo guide walks you through every one of them.
On a live listing the full platform gallery runs much larger — each wheel and tire individually with date codes, underbody, paint-flaw close-ups, trunk, rear seats, documents — and we send you a short shot list for it. The 13 above are the foundation set every listing starts from.
Video
This walk-around was filmed by the seller and is hosted on the seller’s own YouTube channel — exactly how yours will work. DC Auto Services does not film, edit or host video: you film and upload to your own channel and send us the link, and we include it in your submission package. Keeping the video live and accurate through the auction is the seller’s responsibility.
Treat this video as the minimum example: a clean, steady walk-around with the interior covered. What you film beyond that is your choice. Offered as beneficial additions, not requirements:
Send us your link before your listing is built and we’ll review the video once and send you one round of feedback — a one-time review, so you can fix anything before buyers see it (we can provide assistance — if you’re new to YouTube, our tutorial page takes you from creating the channel to sending us the link).
Like what you see? This page is the standard your listing will be built to — for one flat fee of $495, with no commission. Your vehicle stays with you, your account stays yours, and everything is handled from our desk.