About us
Is DriveLink legit?
You should not take our word for it, and this page is not going to ask you to. Here is who we are, exactly where your money sits, and how to check all of it independently.
If you are reading this, someone has probably suggested using DriveLink for a car deal, or you found us while looking for a way to pay for one safely. Either way you are about to consider sending money to a company you had not heard of this morning. That deserves a real answer rather than a marketing page.
Who we are
DriveLink LLC is a limited liability company registered in New Jersey. We run a marketplace for private-party vehicle sales with escrow built into every deal. You can list a car with us, or bring a car you found anywhere else and use us for the payment alone. Either way the mechanism is the same: buyer and seller agree a deal, we hold the money, the handover happens, and we release the funds to the seller.
We are a new company, formed this year. We are not going to pretend to a history we do not have, and you should weigh that. What we can offer instead of a long track record is a mechanism that is public, specific, and checkable.
Where your money actually sits
This is the question that matters and it deserves a direct answer.
- Payments are processed and held through Stripe, a regulated payment processor, not in a DriveLink bank account we can spend from.
- The seller is paid by transfer, and that transfer is triggered by one of two things: the buyer confirming they have the vehicle, or the seller entering a six-digit handover code that only the buyer holds.
- Nothing releases automatically on a silent buyer. If a buyer stops responding, the transaction escalates to manual review rather than paying out by default.
- Larger transactions require identity verification of the buyer through Stripe Identity.
- Bank-funded payments have a settlement hold before release, because a bank debit can be returned for a period after it appears to have cleared.
How to check us out — and any escrow service
Apply all of this to us. If we fail any of it, do not use us.
- Did you arrive here on your own? If a link to any escrow site was sent to you by the person you are transacting with, that is the single largest warning sign in private vehicle sales. Type the address yourself. If a seller sent you here, go find us independently before doing anything.
- Check the company registration. New Jersey publishes a business entity search. Look up the name yourself rather than trusting a registration number we give you.
- Check the domain age. A WHOIS lookup shows when a domain was registered. Fake escrow sites are typically weeks old. Ours is not new, but check rather than believe.
- Look at how payments are taken. We process cards and bank payments through Stripe. We will never ask you to wire funds to a personal account, and we do not accept cryptocurrency. Any message claiming to be from us that asks for either is fraudulent — report it to us at support@drivelink.deals.
- Check the fee is stated before you commit. Ours is 1% of the sale price, stated on the site rather than revealed at the end.
- Check that the release conditions are written down. Ours are on this page and on our safety page. A service that will not tell you what triggers release is not one to use.
Because fake escrow sites frequently clone real ones, confirm the domain in your address bar reads exactly drivelink.deals. Similar addresses with an extra character, a hyphen, or a different ending are not us. We only ever send email from that domain.
What we do not do
Being clear about the limits is part of being checkable:
- We do not inspect vehicles. Escrow protects you from not receiving a car. It does not protect you from receiving a disappointing one. Pay for an independent pre-purchase inspection.
- We do not audit titles. We do not verify lien status, title brands, or ownership history. Buy a vehicle history report yourself and check the title against the seller's ID at the handover.
- We are not a bank and we do not lend, finance, or insure.
- We do not guarantee a sale price is fair. We do surface AI-generated pricing insights to help you judge whether a price is reasonable, but they are an input to your decision, not a valuation or an appraisal. The final judgment is yours.
- We cannot recover money sent outside our platform. If you wire funds directly to a seller, we have no visibility and no ability to help.
Reasonable questions to ask us
Email support@drivelink.deals and ask anything on this list. If we are evasive about any of it, that tells you something.
- Who holds the funds during a transaction and under what arrangement?
- What exactly triggers release to the seller?
- What happens if the buyer never confirms?
- What happens if the car is not as described?
- What is your legal entity name and state of registration?
Where DriveLink fits
DriveLink is a marketplace for private vehicle sales with escrow on every deal. You can list a car with us for free, or bring a car you found anywhere and use us for the payment alone.
If you have read this far and want to proceed, a deal takes a few minutes to set up. If you are still not sure, do not use us — sending money to a service you are uneasy about is exactly the behaviour this whole category of fraud depends on.