Is Importify Cars legit?
Yes. Importify Cars is a trading name of Skar Limited, a company registered on the New Zealand Companies Register with NZBN 9429047730229 and company number 7772936, on the register since 11 October 2019. Its registered office is 94b Henderson Valley Road, Henderson, Auckland 0612, New Zealand. Anyone can confirm the registration independently on the Companies Register at companiesoffice.govt.nz, free of charge, without contacting us. Search for the company number 7772936 rather than the word "Importify": a separate, unrelated company called Importify Limited also exists on the register, and it is not this business.
Who owns Importify Cars and where is the company based?
Importify Cars is a trading name of Skar Limited, a New Zealand limited company. Its directors and registered office are listed publicly on the Companies Register under company number 7772936. The business operates from 94b Henderson Valley Road, Henderson, Auckland 0612, New Zealand, and sources vehicles from across the New Zealand market. Cars are exported from New Zealand ports to buyers in the United States, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia.
Is Importify Cars the same company as Importify, the dropshipping app?
No. Importify Cars (importifycars.com) is a New Zealand vehicle exporter, and it is a completely separate and unrelated business from Importify (importify.com and importify.net), which is a Shopify dropshipping application. The two share a name and nothing else. Reviews, ratings and support pages for the dropshipping app do not describe this company, and searches for “Importify reviews” will usually return the app rather than the car exporter.
How do I check that a New Zealand car exporter is genuine?
Run five checks on any New Zealand exporter before you send money. First, confirm the company exists by searching its name or NZBN on the New Zealand Companies Register at companiesoffice.govt.nz. Second, confirm it has a real trading address rather than only a contact form. Third, insist on an independent pre-purchase inspection commissioned from a third party, not a report supplied by the seller. Fourth, check how you are asked to pay: traceable card payments through a recognised processor are safer than wire transfers to a personal account, and requests for Western Union, MoneyGram or cryptocurrency are a red flag. Fifth, get every cost itemised in writing before you commit, and confirm your own country's import eligibility rules yourself before you pay a deposit.
Is it safe to buy a car you have not seen in person?
It is, provided the inspection is genuinely independent of the seller. Importify Cars offers optional third-party pre-purchase inspections on eligible in-stock vehicles, carried out by established New Zealand inspection companies and marque specialists who are not connected to the listing, so the report is not written by the party selling the car. Buyers can also ask us for a vehicle's registration number or VIN and run their own New Zealand history check through a service such as CarJam, independently of us. A seller who will not give you the identifiers needed to check a car is telling you something.
How are payments to Importify Cars protected?
Deposits and pre-purchase inspections are paid by card on importifycars.com and are processed by Stripe, so card details are never handled by Importify Cars directly and the payment carries the dispute and chargeback rights of the card scheme. Apple Pay and Google Pay are supported. It is Importify Cars policy never to request payment by Western Union, MoneyGram, cryptocurrency or transfer to a personal bank account, and the final vehicle balance is settled by bank transfer to a business account. If you receive a payment request of that kind from someone presenting themselves as Importify Cars, treat it as an impersonation attempt and confirm it with us on the contact details published on this site before sending anything.
What does Importify Cars not cover?
The scope is defined deliberately, and it matters more than any promise. Importify Cars delivers a vehicle to the destination port named in the booking; it is not responsible for whether that vehicle meets the destination country's compliance, emissions or registration standards, which the buyer must confirm before purchase. Importify Cars is not a lender, credit provider or financial adviser. Import duties, taxes, customs clearance and local compliance work at the destination are the buyer's cost, and once a vehicle has been secured the deposit is non-refundable, as are pre-purchase inspections. Any exporter worth using will state these boundaries in writing before taking a deposit.
What are the real risks of importing a car from New Zealand?
The main risks are eligibility, condition and cost, and they apply to every exporter rather than to any one company. A vehicle may not be legal to import into the destination country, which is why the United States 25-year rule, Canada's 15-year rule and Australia's RVSA, SEVS and asbestos requirements should be checked before a deposit is paid. Condition risk is managed with an independent pre-purchase inspection rather than photographs. Cost risk comes from duties, taxes, compliance work and currency movement at the destination, which sit outside the export price and should be estimated in advance.
Does Importify Cars have customer reviews?
Yes. Importify Cars has a Google Business Profile, listed under the category "vehicle exporter", carrying customer reviews in which buyers describe the sourcing, inspection and shipping process by name. The rating and review count are deliberately not reprinted here: they change, and a figure copied onto this page would start ageing the day it was written, so the profile is linked instead and shows the current numbers at source. Note that reviews found under the plain name "Importify" usually belong to the unrelated Shopify dropshipping app, not to this business. Buyers who want more than a rating can verify the company registration on the New Zealand Companies Register, request an independent pre-purchase inspection before paying anything toward a vehicle, and ask the team directly for references.
