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How not to miss KAS auctions — deadlines, notifications and endgame strategy

October 15, 2026

The best cars at Polish tax-office auctions share one trait: by the time you hear about them "by accident", it's already over. Notices on the eLicytacje KAS portal appear constantly, electronic auctions run for one to two weeks, and the outcome is often decided in the final hours. Here is how to build a tracking system that doesn't let bargains slip — manually or automatically.

Why bargains slip through your fingers

Since July 2026 every enforcement sale run by Polish tax offices lands on a single portal — eLicytacje KAS. That's convenient, but it's also a problem: there are many offers and the valuable ones drown in the noise. Three mechanisms make latecomers lose:

1. A short window between the notice and the auction. The notice sets the viewing date and the auction start. If you learn about a car on the day bidding starts, you usually have no time to view it or pay the deposit — and above an estimated value of PLN 10,000 you cannot bid without a deposit (1/10 of the value).
2. A second auction at half the price. Cars unsold in the first round come back with the starting price cut from 3/4 to 1/2 of the estimated value. These returns are where the real bargains usually are — and they are the easiest to miss, because you'd have to remember a specific car for weeks.
3. Decided at the finish. An electronic auction lasts at least 7 days, but most bids land near the end. If you don't watch the closing, you give the car away for a single increment — and the minimum increment is just 1% of the starting price.

The manual way: what it really costs

The portal has a decent search engine — filters by voivodeship, category and estimated value, and browsing needs no account. In theory, checking it daily is enough.

In practice, honest manual tracking means:

• a daily review of new notices in your category (15–30 minutes),
• noting viewing dates and the closing time of every interesting auction,
• separately watching cars that may return in a second round,
• market-price research for every candidate — because the starting price alone doesn't tell you whether the offer is any good.

For one dream car "for yourself" this holds together. For regular hunting — say, when you flip cars — the manual process eats hours a week and still fails: one weekend away is enough.

What a good tracking system must do

Whether you assemble it yourself or use a ready tool, effective monitoring of tax auctions needs four elements:

1. Filters matching your criteria — make, body type, region, value range. An alert about everything is no alert at all.
2. Immediacy — news of a notice must reach you on publication day, not in a weekly digest. Otherwise the window for viewing and the deposit is gone.
3. A profitability check up front — the starting price set against market value and costs. Without it an alert says "there's a car", not "there's a deal".
4. Tracking the offer's life cycle — a reminder before the auction closes and a signal when an unsold car returns in a second round at a lower price.

Strategy for the auction itself

Tracking is half the battle; the other half is discipline during the auction:

• Calculate your limit before you start: market value minus repairs, transport and paperwork, minus your safety margin. Remember that the sale comes with no liability for defects — you buy "as is", so a buffer for surprises is mandatory.
• Don't show your hand early. High early bids only heat up the competition. Expect the decisive bids at the very end — be at your phone then.
• One increment over your limit is already a loss. An auction won at a loss is worse than one lost.

We describe the whole purchase process — from the portal account to collecting the car — in the step-by-step guide.

How Brykam does it

We built Brykam around exactly this problem. The app continuously analyses new notices from eLicytacje KAS and computes an AI profitability score for every car: its market value, expected costs and estimated profit. You set the criteria — makes, regions, budget — and Brykam:

• sends an alert on Telegram and in the app when a matching car appears — on the day the notice is published;
• shows straight away whether the starting price is a real opportunity, instead of leaving you with a raw notice;
• watches the deadlines so you're there when it's decided.

Instead of digging through the portal daily, you get a short list of cars genuinely worth a look. Set up your alerts in Brykam. Buying cars professionally? See what Brykam offers dealers and flippers.

Auction rules: the Act on Enforcement Proceedings in Administration and the eLicytacje KAS portal terms. As of: October 2026.