The Carvana Website is Badly Broken

How do you buy cars at these low prices ?

Put an add on Craigslist offering $200 more than the Carvana offer ?

It's nice that they have automated lowballing. Doing it manually is so exhausting.

I checked what my wife's car would sell for and what they offered for it. $9000 difference.  

My car they have no idea what it;s worth. 1 of 400 makes it rare lol. This is for the wife's car:

Could be worse. We bought it 2 years ago November for $5000. She's put 34k miles on it since.

DWNSHFT said:

Trying to hemp my parents sell a 2013 Fiat 500 Turbo.  I didn't have the plate or VIN so I put everything in manually and Carvana said $11,043.  So I press "continue" and then put in the VIN and now the offer drops to $7,181.  What?!?  Exactly the same information on the same day and time.  Leaves a bad taste in my mouth, Carvana.

I wonder if there's some accident report floating around on that VIN that caused it to drop?  Or lack of dealership maintenance or something.  I'll still never buy a car from them as I've heard too many horror stories.

-Rob

The sweet spot was about a year ago.  I got an offer on my Golf Sportwagen higher than I paid for it OTD (tax, tags, etc) 2 years before.   

rob_lewis said:

DWNSHFT said:

Trying to hemp my parents sell a 2013 Fiat 500 Turbo.  I didn't have the plate or VIN so I put everything in manually and Carvana said $11,043.  So I press "continue" and then put in the VIN and now the offer drops to $7,181.  What?!?  Exactly the same information on the same day and time.  Leaves a bad taste in my mouth, Carvana.

I wonder if there's some accident report floating around on that VIN that caused it to drop?  Or lack of dealership maintenance or something.  I'll still never buy a car from them as I've heard too many horror stories.

-Rob

I'm wondering if what we think is highly desirable ( Manual transmissions, sport suspension) aren't to the average buyer.  
   I wouldn't trust them any more than I can throw a car.  But it might be a factor.  

I was ok until they asked for my email.

Nope.

I should have expected that.

A friend of mine got an absolutely bonkers offer from Carvana a couple months ago. I helped her with that and helped her get the car ready and I still can't believe what they paid for it. $18.5k for a 2014 Equinox. Yes it was low miles but damn that's a lot of money. It was enough that I looked into buying cars to sell to Carvana but nothing I could find was enough of a spread to make it worthwhile. 

rob_lewis said:

DWNSHFT said:

Trying to hemp my parents sell a 2013 Fiat 500 Turbo.  I didn't have the plate or VIN so I put everything in manually and Carvana said $11,043.  So I press "continue" and then put in the VIN and now the offer drops to $7,181.  What?!?  Exactly the same information on the same day and time.  Leaves a bad taste in my mouth, Carvana.

I wonder if there's some accident report floating around on that VIN that caused it to drop?  Or lack of dealership maintenance or something.  I'll still never buy a car from them as I've heard too many horror stories.

-Rob

I've been looking at 500's again recently and been surprised at how much people want for them.

I would have thought $7k for a 10 year old car nobody wants, with lousy support, and a spotty reliability record would be pretty good.