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JSH · 04-08-2022, 12:51 PM

Well the deal is done, I sold my 2014 Sportwagen TDI to Carvana and the process was a painless as promised.

If you don’t know - Carvana is a tech company that buys and sell cars online. You can pick out a car on their website, they will bring it to you on a car carrier or rollback, take away your car as trade-in and boom – the deal is done with no dealership hassle. They also just buy cars sight unseen – just fill out a form and they send a locked in price.

Getting a quote for my car took about 5 minutes. Carvana offered $16,400 for a car I paid $14,000 for 4 years and 36,000 miles ago. With that offer I had to confirm I owned the car by taking a picture of the title and my driver’s license. Then I selected a pick up appointment for them to come get the car.

Today was that day. The Carvana rep showed up, took about 10 pictures of the car, drove it a block at 10 mph and that was the inspection. We did 5 minutes of paperwork and he took the keys and handed me a check.

I would never buy a car from Carvana as their prices are WAY high but I was happy to sell them my car at an inflated price.

The VW dealer offered $12,000 as a trade-in. I said that was low and showed them the Carvana price. They just say – sell it to Carvana because that is what we will sell it for on our lot. Car Guru confirms that similar cars are selling for about $16K at dealers within a 200 mile radius of me. Carvana will sell my car for about $20K and people we pay that just so they don’t have to go to a dealer. Crazy world.

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JSH AKA - Jason Join Date: May 2009 Location: PDX Posts: 3,618 Adventure Seeker - '04 Chevy Astro - Campervan 90 day: 17.3 mpg (US) Thanks: 330 Thanked 2,167 Times in 1,465 Posts	Sold my car to Carvana Well the deal is done, I sold my 2014 Sportwagen TDI to Carvana and the process was a painless as promised. If you don’t know - Carvana is a tech company that buys and sell cars online. You can pick out a car on their website, they will bring it to you on a car carrier or rollback, take away your car as trade-in and boom – the deal is done with no dealership hassle. They also just buy cars sight unseen – just fill out a form and they send a locked in price. Getting a quote for my car took about 5 minutes. Carvana offered $16,400 for a car I paid $14,000 for 4 years and 36,000 miles ago. With that offer I had to confirm I owned the car by taking a picture of the title and my driver’s license. Then I selected a pick up appointment for them to come get the car. Today was that day. The Carvana rep showed up, took about 10 pictures of the car, drove it a block at 10 mph and that was the inspection. We did 5 minutes of paperwork and he took the keys and handed me a check. I would never buy a car from Carvana as their prices are WAY high but I was happy to sell them my car at an inflated price. The VW dealer offered $12,000 as a trade-in. I said that was low and showed them the Carvana price. They just say – sell it to Carvana because that is what we will sell it for on our lot. Car Guru confirms that similar cars are selling for about $16K at dealers within a 200 mile radius of me. Carvana will sell my car for about $20K and people we pay that just so they don’t have to go to a dealer. Crazy world.