Find My Electric: FAQ

If you’ve purchased a featured listing, you ad stays up until your car sells…or the AI apocalypse comes, whichever happens first 😉

With a standard listing, your ad stays up for 90 days. And with a free listing, you’ve got 7 days to try and sell your car.

With each plan, you’re in control of your ad the entire time, which means you can pause your ad or change the status without talking to us at all (unless you need help, of course). Obviously we reserve the right to modify or delete the ad for reasons like fraud or misrepresentation, but it’s something we rarely do.

Once your car is marked as “sold,” we keep the listing but remove your contact information and VIN, ensuring that no one bugs you and your information is kept safe.

When you submit a listing on Find My Electric, it goes into “pending” status. During this time (within 24 hours but often within 4 hours), we perform a number of proprietary quality and spam checks to filter our malicious and dishonest listings.

If you notify us before your listing is published (while it’s still in “pending” status), we’re happy to refund 100% of your listing cost.

However, once a listing is live on the site, we do not offer refunds.

Due to the extreme level of buyer traffic that Find My Electric receives on a daily basis, allowing sellers to purchase a Featured Listing and then request a refunds weeks later opens our system up to rampant abuse.

The awesome thing about Find My Electric is that we have a totally free listing option! So, if you’re concerned about the cost (you shouldn’t be – our cars sell FAST!) – try out a free listing first – you can always upgrade later!

Nope! No additional fees at all!

If you choose to upgrade your listing from free to standard/featured, or from standard to featured, that’s up to you. You’ll only pay the difference between the prices and upgrading is totally optional.

Yes! We currently offer the option of upgrading your listing from any lower tier.

So, you can upgrade from free to standard or featured. You can also upgrade from standard to featured at any time.

Check out our pricing page for details!

Because Find My Electric is a peer-to-peer marketplace, we don’t guarantee any offers, terms, availability of funds, or anything else between buyers and sellers.

We do run proprietary checks to help prevent fraudulent account registration from both buyers and sellers, and monitor the site for fraudulent activity, doing our best to ban-hammer those bad actors from the site. We also have systems in place to detect some listing errors and flag other inaccurate items.

But because this is a peer-to-peer marketplace, the impetus for being honest and thorough on both ends is ultimately on the buyers and sellers.

With that said, if you see any abuse, deception, or anything else that isn’t cool, please let us know so we can take the appropriate action.

Would you see foot doctor when you need heart surgery? Would you hire a carpenter to do your plumbing? The same thing applies here…

The difference between gasoline cars and Teslas is night and day. Sites that sell mostly gas cars aren’t well-equipped to handle Tesla listings (and the buyers aren’t really looking for Teslas either).

They don’t have options for the autopilot hardware or software versions (which we all know matters a lot when searching for a used Tesla). They don’t have the correct wheel/tire choices, battery options—they really just plain suck when it comes to selling a used Tesla.

So—don’t mess around with those sites. Go with the experts who love Tesla as much as you do. When you list on Find My Electric, you’re tapping into a crowd of Tesla enthusiasts who are looking for the exact thing you’re selling. And bonus—we’re nuts for Tesla ourselves (read more on our about page).

We care about the process and we’re also here to help; you just can’t get that kind of service or Tesla expertise from generic car selling websites.

Well, to be 100% honest—because they aren’t very good. Seriously. (Which is what led us to create Find My Electric)

The truth is that most other EV classifieds sites are cluttered with ads, poorly organized, and just have a horrible user experience.

Even the other ones (including Tesla-specific sites) that aren’t full of ads leave a lot to be desired. Their searching/sorting features and all of the things that really help you find the best Teslas are plain, straight-out-of-the-box, and just don’t work well. They are the Internet Explorer of EV marketplaces and we’re Chrome (sorry, not sorry).

We spent tons and tons of time developing our proprietary Tesla searching and listing technology, and no one else in the world has it. Our goal was to truly create the ultimate Tesla marketplace where you can easily buy/sell/and interact with other Tesla enthusiasts. We’re super proud of Find My Electric, and we hope you’ll love it too!

Find My Electric is a peer-to-peer used Tesla marketplace, so we don’t make any guarantees about the vehicles or examine them.

That said, all listings must be approved after submitting and if we see something that seems obviously fishy, we won’t allow the listing to be published. However, you shouldn’t depend on that and need to make sure you do your own due diligence when buying a Tesla.

The good news is that most used Teslas are still under the factory warranty, many are owned by enthusiasts, and their purchase price is relatively high to begin with, which naturally weeds out a lot of bad actors/scammers in the selling pool.

When purchasing anything from a private party, you need to do your own research and protect yourself from scams.

Reports like CarFax and Experian AutoCheck are a good starting point. Inspecting the car in person or getting a thorough video walkthrough is another good thing to do as well as seeing the service records. Also, it may be worthwhile to have Tesla inspect the vehicle you’re thinking about purchasing and/or verify the factory warranty status.

There are a lot of other things that you can do too, but the main takeaway here is that when you’re buying from a private party, you need to make sure to do your homework so you fully-understand what you’re buying.

Tesla CPO cars are awesome, and sometimes a good deal too—it’s definitely a route that we support—and those cars come directly from Tesla.

That said, sometimes even with the 2/4-year CPO warranty they’re still more expensive than buying from a private party, because there’s zero negotiation with Tesla. People have also had some big problems with the CPO process and getting their cars on time or dealing with lengthy delays (just check out Rich Rebuilds’ video on that). We aren’t saying the CPO process is bad at all (it’s not), but there are definitely some cons to go with the pros.

Tesla also isn’t allowed to sell to consumers in some states, which can be problematic. And their focus is really on new cars, not used cars. On top of that, Elon has stated that they’re going to keep all lease-returned Model 3s for the autonomous taxi network, so you won’t be able to find those either.

If you want a CPO car, then get one! You’ll be in a Tesla and there’s nothing better than that! But if you’re looking to save a bit more money and get a car that’s every bit as nice (and sometimes nicer), take a look at our used Tesla listings. Bonus point—you can still find a CPO car from a private party that often has a balance of the CPO warranty, you just need to look.

If you want a used Tesla, but aren’t sure which model is right for you, then you’ll want to check out our Ultimate Guides to each Tesla Model.

Model S  |  Model 3  |  Model X  |  Model Y