Great experience with Carvana today. My first time selling to a company since I’ve always done private party sales via AutoTrader, etc. in the past.
Carvana’s online offer was 2nd highest. At first, I tried to sell to CarBuyerUSA with the highest offer, but they did a bait and switch and reduced the offer after I dropped off the car at a Manheim auction lot. Had to go back to get the car today and sold it to Carvana tonight. Only $40 for pick up at my house and the entire process was done in 15 minutes!
Yup just sold my eqe lease to Carvana. Most dealers offer 55-58k (for a 4 month old eqe 500 thats 96k msrp, holy depreciation). Carvana offered 10k more at 68k.
Carvana took my 21 GLB back. I was ~10k miles under the lease and I walked away with $1900 in equity on a lease that was 1 month away from maturity. The savings not having to pay the disposition fee meant 1/2+ of the cost of my new lease was covered. The experience couldn’t have been more painless, in and out in 10 min.
Sadly the lease is up in July for my 2020 C43 benz and carvana finally jumped the offer up high enough to sell. Getting about 2300 back but had to pay $90 for pick up, it was going to need breaks, new tires (OEM didn’t last long and I didn’t replace with run flats after a blowout on the highway), I did hit a deer a year ago and saving on the disposition fee so I view the payout as much higher. With the crazy covid deal I got on this lease and the money back it cost about $327 a month for 46 months, not too bad.
After inputting 7 different online sell your car leads, carvana came in $1200 over second highest quote. Is there a catch with them esp with going in person…
No. Carvana is the easiest sale I have ever had besides one of my local BHPH’s. You literally pull up. The person lazily walks around the car with a clipboard and a camera. Writes you a check, you sign documents and leave. Took no more than 15 mins every time if I didn’t have to wait for someone in front of me
Carvana is great… unless a new employee in training does the inspection. Just my luck lol. The manager came along for the pick up to train the new employee and they were pretty thorough. Drove the car, did a lot of inspections, went line by line on their check list. Lasted 45 min. I got dinged for a non working AC (needed to be recharged) and dropped by value by $700. I went ahead and sold it anyway as I just needed to get rid of the car and their offer was still strong-ish. My first car out of college. Stick, lowered, custom exhaust. Such a pure ride. Going to miss it.
This was sitting outside since 2014 years with only occasional start ups (driven maybe 200 miles since then). Needed a good amount of work because of that, plus had tires from 2008 lol. Hence the offer was strong factoring all that.
Sold our family’s 2017 Porsche Macan 2.0T base almost no options to Carvana. 2+ accidents (minor to moderate), unrepaired exterior scrapes and dings and whatnot, 102k-ish miles. Pickup was painless according to my mom.
Got offered $9400 where all the other offers were $7k or less for non-private party. Took it and ran.
I just sold a base model 2025 Equinox EV LT 1 PCY for $25,400. Paid $19K for it a year ago. I noticed if you put different zip codes in the state you are selling will provide different offers. Luckily I have 3 Carvanas in a 3 - 5 hour drive from me. The city I live in was $24,800. It’s been going up and down. But, never more than $24,800. My offer expired 4/10. But, I choose the latest date possible to pick up. Pick up is also the same. For where I lived it was $40 to pick up. But, a city a couple hours away pick up was free. So, I used that zip code for free and then entered my address. I set an appointment to sell 4/28. But, decided to check again this past weekend and it was still at $24,800 in my city. But, another city was $25,400. I locked that offer in and uploaded all things needed. I dropped it off at the one close to me that gave $24,800. But, since I locked the offer for $25,400 they handed me a check for that amount.
