Oh nice. How to replicate such thing. Visiting for 3 months and would like to try such thing 
Was looking for 7 seater car/sedans though . how did you determine the wholesale value of the car etc or just pick the car with maximum discount
I would suggest just getting a monthly Turo rental. Flipping cars can be risky.
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Just wanted to share my experience with AutoNation Jaguar Land Rover White Plains.
I got an online Certified Offer for $21,425 for my car. When I called the dealership, they told me it would actually be closer to $18K, even though I had already provided all the details online.
I figured I’d go in anyway. They inspected the car, said everything matched my description, and even commented on how clean it was. Then they offered me $18,230.
When I asked why it was over $3K less than the certified offer, they basically said it was computer-generated and they wouldn’t honor it.
Here’s the funny part: the next morning, AutoNation emailed me another offer for $21,925! 
So apparently my car is worth even more online, but not when I actually show up.
Ended up selling it to Carvana instead. I also filed complaints with the BBB and FTC because this whole thing feels like misleading advertising to me.
Just sharing so others don’t waste their time. What’s the point of calling something a “Certified Offer” if the dealership can just ignore it?
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Autonation is bait-and-switch. They generate high offers and send you to local dealers who then lowball you. That’s my experience with them.
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Hope you sent them a thank you note for letting you leverage their bogus offer with Carvana?
I didn’t think Carvana’s offers were negotiable.
There are (or were idk) tricks with playing with zipcodes for Carvana offers. Not sure about the details but you can search the forum.
Autonation and Cars.com utilize the same bait-and-switch tactics on used price vehicle offers. Some months back, I had taken my old Defender to that place and another dealership which gave an offer thru Cars.com (a particularly large MB dealer in north Jersey)… both gave “guaranteed” offers of $38k, but upon a perfect inspection the offers were at $33k.
However, the management at that specific JLR dealership Is pretty bad… and it doesn’t help when most of the JLR dealers in the area are Autonation 
That I can see.
All I was saying is when you get an offer for a given zip, I didn’t think it was negotiable in a way I was able to negotiate with ALGO, for example.