Carvana Experience

My daughter went and got married, left her car in my driveway.
I went directly to Carvana website, filled out the info and over the course of 1 or 2 hours had a pick up date selected for this morning. (Sunday, 10:30am)

Two females showed up, basically checked to see if car started, verified odometer. Locked it up and said a tow truck will come pick it up. And they cut me a check for the agreed upon amount. Took 20 minutes.

Based on the market, shortage of chips, I'm 100% happy with how this car sale went down.

Bought the car 2 1/2 years ago, (2014 Focus 20k miles), and paid $11,000 w/ ttl and Carvana gave me $10,700 today.


Off topic: My garage door was open and my Shelby's ass was visible from the driveway. The one girl commented, "Did you name your car Shelby?, Ya, the letters across the trunk? Or does it come like that?" So cute

Did you check any other sites, dealers, etc. to see what they’re going for in your area?

Lambeau said:

Did you check any other sites, dealers, etc. to see what they’re going for in your area?

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This right here. Carvana is super hit or miss. When I sold my Charger, Carvana offered me $2,200 more than any other dealer and even blue book value. However, my brother just sold his truck, and a dealer gave him $6,000 more than Carvana.

Sometimes they are way high, and sometimes they are low. Plenty of data points go into their algorithm, but it really does seem inconsistent.

14 Ruby Red Raptor 84k miles was 34.5k on carvana
41k on vroom

Has to be an algorithm for mileage IMO

A friend of mine and his wife just got out of a 2014 focus SE with around 118k miles. No accidents, average shape, nothing special car. 2 Ford dealers offered them 1500 on trade, Carvana paid out 2700 dollars.

I haven't used it but I know a lot of guys on Mustang6G are doing the Carvana and Vroom song and dance right now.

I sold on Vroom. Easy peasy. No issues.

offroadkarter said:

A friend of mine and his wife just got out of a 2014 focus SE with around 118k miles. No accidents, average shape, nothing special car. 2 Ford dealers offered them 1500 on trade, Carvana paid out 2700 dollars.

I haven't used it but I know a lot of guys on Mustang6G are doing the Carvana and Vroom song and dance right now.

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jesus those cars have gotten cheap. If it was a manual car they are pretty solid for a cheap dd. Auto version I wouldn’t touch for any amount of money.

SHOdown220 said:

jesus those cars have gotten cheap. If it was a manual car they are pretty solid for a cheap dd. Auto version I wouldn’t touch for any amount of money.

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yeah I had that same thought, and that car was on its third or fourth transmission IIRC. My friend has a 17 Focus ST which has been dead nuts reliable for him, all thanks to that manual trans.

Yes just to show you how crazy the market is I bought my SS back in mid Feb 2019, 2 weeks ago Carvana offered $38,4XX with 10,000 miles added since I bought it with 24,233 now it has 34,820 miles. And originally I got it at $32,500. But I also know if I ever did sell I could never replace it as SS's are extremely limited here and I would probably spend more trying to get one with less than 60,000 miles on it.

offroadkarter said:

yeah I had that same thought, and that car was on its third or fourth transmission IIRC. My friend has a 17 Focus ST which has been dead nuts reliable for him, all thanks to that manual trans.

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My 16 ST has 108k on it now. Only issues have been a check engine light cause by a faulty purge valve which came on about the same time the recall for that part came out, so quick free fix there and a thermostat with a slight leak that cost me next to nothing to replace myself. That's all I can think of off the top of my head, never left me stranded.

So these are the type of people Carvana has doing business for them ??
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" "Did you name your car Shelby?, Ya, the letters across the trunk? Or does it come like that?" So cute "

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So these are the type of people Carvana has doing business for them ??
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" "Did you name your car Shelby?, Ya, the letters across the trunk? Or does it come like that?" So cute "

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eh most dealerships are the same way..

when I got rid of my Shelby.. the salesman was just loud “ oh .. sounds loud. Are those fast. We’ve sold a couple Mustang’s here “

1Kona_Venom said:

My daughter went and got married, left her car in my driveway.
I went directly to Carvana website, filled out the info and over the course of 1 or 2 hours had a pick up date selected for this morning. (Sunday, 10:30am)

Two females showed up, basically checked to see if car started, verified odometer. Locked it up and said a tow truck will come pick it up. And they cut me a check for the agreed upon amount. Took 20 minutes.

Based on the market, shortage of chips, I'm 100% happy with how this car sale went down.

Bought the car 2 1/2 years ago, (2014 Focus 20k miles), and paid $11,000 w/ ttl and Carvana gave me $10,700 today.


Off topic: My garage door was open and my Shelby's ass was visible from the driveway. The one girl commented, "Did you name your car Shelby?, Ya, the letters across the trunk? Or does it come like that?" So cute

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Does your daughter know what you did????!!!

CompOrange04GT said:

eh most dealerships are the same way..

when I got rid of my Shelby.. the salesman was just loud “ oh .. sounds loud. Are those fast. We’ve sold a couple Mustang’s here “

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Part of this is my fault. I don't know why I do it, I did it with my ST, RS, and GT350.

I would get approached at the gas station or something, and someone would comment "wow this car looks/sounds cool/fast/aggressive, what is it?" and I would reply "Thanks! It's a Ford Focus/Mustang."

Sorry guys.

Had a similar experience with cash 4 cars getting rid of my pos truck that wouldn't pass smog due to a bad cat.

The cat assembly was more than the truck was worth and ended up getting 2k for it. Pick n pull offered me 500.

Sold my 2013 raptor supercrew with almost 100k miles to carvana, easiest deal I’ve ever done, set a time and date, driver showed up early, did some paperwork, handed over the title and keys, and he gave me a check drawn on Wells Fargo.

loaded it up and gone, took 15 minutes start to finish.

First off, I am disappointed none of the boys asked about the two females.I expected it.

Second, I have noticed more and more Carvana transporters on the road. I like the concept but the uncertainty of buying sight unseen (essentially) is worrisome. The selling aspect seemed very simple according to your story.

Competent dealers do the same thing every day.

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Has anybody purchased a car from carvana?

I am wondering about the quality of their cars if they are buying cars so quickly at a premium.

Sold my dad's XTS a month ago, car was bought for 21k almost 3 years ago, was sold for almost 20k.

Dealers around us were giving him 16k~, some a couple hundred more if he bought another car.

Pretty simple good experience, had a check under his name in less than 20 minutes.