Yeah the Murano was a hard no. Must be why they’re so cheap
Murano sad 
Don’t bother.
After extending my Mazda CX-9 lease a full 6 months it was time for another vehicle. Carmax offered the most @$ 25,600. Dealer buyout through Chase Financial was just above $20,800. I was in and out the door at my local Carmax office in just under an hour.
I’ve sold 2 Lexus leases to CarMax and 2 other leases to Carvana. Currently, Carvana is offering considerably more than Carmax on my 22 ES. My last Lexus sale to Carmax was in January of 2022. Carvana by far is the easiest experience I’ve ever encountered with selling a car but only because Carmax requires you to come into their facility for a detailed inspection first. Still wasn’t difficult but Carvana was almost too easy and barely looked at the vehicle.
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No it’s not. I helped my relatives sell their Kona at NJ carmax.
You got lucky. I saw Your post a while ago and after that I tried twice with no success unfortunately.
No. You got unlucky. Hyundai allows third party sales and you should’ve gone to a different Carmax(s). First time they tried, it was actually Hyundai rep who provided Carmax with the lessee payoff, so Carmax stuck with it. There was never a question of Hyundai allowing third party buyouts.
no luck in this case
I agree. No one from Carmax said that HMF doesn’t allow to buy their leased cars. Carmax doesn’t want to buy them for i think obvious reason (waiting time for title?
) . But now they can buy leased MB.
That’s why I said that you should’ve tried multiple locations. I advised my relatives do the same and they scheduled appointments at two more locations in case their first Carmax still wouldn’t work. But hey, you only left $1k on the table lol
I think slightly less, knowing that i need to drive two cars there. For sure if the difference would be much bigger i would try to sell it in different location. BTW which location Your relative sold to? Just for future reference
Wayne, NJ, I think.
Esteemed @trusted_hackrs - can you move replies to the first @Zenek’s post to “sold to carmax” just to keep on topic of Rodo?
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Curious if in anyone’s experience that the offer is going to be different by location based on what you’re selling them. I’m pretty close to three different Carmaxes.
Logic would say if they have something similar to what I’m selling on the lot then the offer would be lower than a location without something similar. But it’s such a big player I wonder if the offers are the offers regardless.
For what’s it’s worth I sold to one location and shortly after looks like they moved it to another store about 30 miles away. I doubt they pay any more based on locations within 200 miles or so considering they have a fleet of transporters to move stuff around.
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Just sold a leased (Chase bank) 2020 Subbie to Carmax in Wayne NJ. Online quote came in just under $23k and after visual inspection it reduced $0 from original quote. $$$ in the bank.
You can keep doing new quotes on the website as many times as you want. Try changing zip codes too. I’ve had a swing or +/- $500 in a day just doing new quotes. I think I’ve found once you bring the car in for an in person quote- it locks something in their system and the online qoute just says “we’d love to see your car for an in person appraisal” or something along those lines. Also- if you get a quote for 25k and the next quote is 24.5k, just bring in the quote/email of the 25k one and they will honor that as it has a unique code at the bottom of the email.
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They never saw my car yet give me the same message every time I try online quote.
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Damm i might do the same to get a tesla m3
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How long do you need to wait before you sell to a 3rd party?