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Originally Posted by HerkHealer
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Originally Posted by Joe-BMW33
Trade, sale to dealer, Carmax etc. is a clean break. Private sales can result in agita. Depends on the buyer and seller.
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+1 on this.
I've never sold a car to either carmax or carvana, but reading up on it seems like a stressless transaction AND you know the funds are 100% legit.
You can go with whatever you want, but I've run into headaches doing a private sale, with every excuse in the book. It can be very frustrating.
If Carmax/Carvana are within your "zone" of what you want, i'd go with them......just to avoid the stress.
Anyway, best of luck with sale. Very nice car. |
I've never sold to CarMax, but I've gone through the process trying to sell my company van to them. They came up $4,000 short of the private sale I ended up going with. But this was 3 years ago and it was a utility van sold to another utility company, so it wasn't scrutinized. It ran well and transported stuff.
I have sold two BMWs privately. I sold an E32 on eBay to someone in Tennessee. The car was perfect but they complained. Even though I felt I described it perfectly and gave the new first time BMW owner an education on BMW's, he said he had tranny issues the minute it came off the truck. Made me feel like a creep. I asked him to send me the bill but I never heard back.
Sold an E38 locally and the first week he had it, the ignition switch went. If you ever had a bad ignition switch you know the car does all kinds of crazy electrical things. So the guy was freaking out. I paid the dealer to fix it.
No more. Trades are easier. You also get to deduct the trade value from the sales tax basis on the new one.