Copart Buy It Now lots in Texas with repair cost vs retail value

Say you buy repairable cars in Texas to fix and resell, or to load into a container for export, and you would rather pay a fixed Buy It Now price than sit through a live auction. Your screen is simple arithmetic: Buy It Now price plus Copart’s repair estimate, against Copart’s estimated retail value. On 7 November 2026 there were 2,679 open Copart lots in Texas with a Buy It Now price, spread across 17 yards from TX - HOUSTON (556 lots) to TX - AMARILLO. Doing that sum lot by lot in a browser is not a plan.

The manual way, and what it costs

Copart’s search page will filter to Texas and Buy It Now, and each lot page shows the estimated retail value, the repair cost and the Buy It Now price. For a short list of 20 or 30 cars from the nearest two yards, that is the sensible way to do it, and it is free.

It stops scaling at the screen itself. The search shows 100 lots a page, so the Texas set is 27 pages, and the numbers you need for the margin sum are on the lot pages rather than in a column you can sort. There is no export button, and no way to sort the results by repair cost as a share of value. Tomorrow’s list is a fresh round of the same clicking.

The faster way

Copart Salvage Auction Lots Scraper & New-Lot Export (No Login) does the same search once and hands back every row at once.

{
  "states": [
    "TX"
  ],
  "buyNowOnly": true,
  "maxResults": 1000
}

states: ["TX"] keeps it to Copart’s Texas yards and buyNowOnly keeps it to lots with a fixed price. maxResults: 1000 returns the first 1,000 lots in Copart’s order, soonest sale first, which is $10.00 at $0.01 a lot; the run log tells you the full count (“Copart lists 2679 open lots; returned 1000”) so you know what the cap left out. Raise it to 3,000 and the whole set comes back, 2,679 lots in 28.6 seconds in our local run, for $26.79. Add makes, damageTypes or titleTypes if you only buy certain cars, and the bill shrinks with the list.

What comes back

One real row from the 7 November 2026 run, trimmed to the fields this screen uses:

{
  "lot_number": 65622166,
  "year": 2011,
  "make": "GMC",
  "model": "ACADIA",
  "primary_damage": "MECHANICAL",
  "title_group": "CLEAN TITLE",
  "condition": "ENHANCED VEHICLES",
  "odometer": 95979.0,
  "estimated_retail_value": 9514.0,
  "repair_cost": 278.0,
  "repair_to_value_ratio": 0.029,
  "buy_now_price": 1250.0,
  "high_bid": 1150.0,
  "yard_name": "TX - NORTH AUSTIN"
}

Field	Example value	Meaning
lot_number	65622166	Copart lot number
estimated_retail_value	9514.0	Copart’s estimated retail value, USD
repair_cost	278.0	Copart’s repair cost estimate, USD, where it lists one
repair_to_value_ratio	0.029	repair_cost divided by estimated_retail_value
buy_now_price	1250.0	The Buy It Now price, USD
high_bid	1150.0	The current high bid at the time of the run, not a sale price

repair_to_value_ratio is the column that answers your question without a formula. Sort it ascending and the cheapest repairs relative to value float up. In the Texas Buy It Now set, the median ratio was 0.898, so the typical lot that lists both figures carries a repair estimate close to its whole retail value. Only 45 lots came in at 0.25 or under, and 37 of those had a clean title.

Then add the price. Buy It Now plus repair cost came to no more than the estimated retail value on 137 lots, and to 70% of it or less on 43. That 43 is a shortlist you can actually open one by one.

What you’d do with it

Export the dataset to CSV, add one column for buy_now_price + repair_cost over estimated_retail_value, and filter at whatever threshold you buy at. Then open each survivor’s lot_url and look at the photos before you commit, because the screen only knows Copart’s numbers. If you run the same input every morning, switch mode to monitor so the next run returns only lots that are new or whose Buy It Now price moved, rather than the same 2,679 rows again.

Worth knowing

Coverage of the two numbers is thin. Of the 2,679 Texas lots, 1,519 had an estimated retail value and only 468 had a repair cost, so the ratio exists for 465. A lot without a repair estimate is not cheap to fix, it is unpriced, and a sort will push it to the bottom or drop it.

Both figures are Copart’s own estimates, and some are plainly off. The lowest-ratio lot in the run was a 2013 Ford F450 with STRIPPED damage, an estimated retail value of $122,304.67 and a Buy It Now of $1,875. A stripped truck is not worth that, which is why the photos come before the money. Mileage needs the same care: 420 of the Texas lots report an odometer of 0, and 358 of those are marked NOT ACTUAL in odometer_status.

The rest is what Copart’s public search does not carry: no sold prices (high_bid is the current bid, never what a car went for), no bid history, a VIN with its last six characters masked, and one thumbnail rather than the photo gallery.

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Run it yourself: How to run Copart Salvage Auction Lots Scraper & New-Lot Export (No Login) walks the whole thing step by step.

To get only the lots that appeared overnight instead of the full list each morning, read A daily new-lots feed from Copart with monitor mode. If you buy through a broker or sell to a dealer and want to confirm the business is registered, the US Business Entity Search looks up Secretary of State records.