I don’t remember anyone talking about selling their car to Carvana on Oppo yet so I thought I’d make a post about my experience.
I checked my car’s value on Carvana a few months ago since I knew used car prices were way up due to the pandemic, and I heard Carvana in particular was making good offers. I plugged in the numbers and to my surprise I got an appraisal of $19k, close to $3k higher than the trade-in value only six months ago.
This motivated me to do a silly thing and buy a two-year-newer version of the same car for reasons, and sell this one. I waited a little while after getting the new car to sell the old one, mainly waiting for the title to arrive after I paid off the loan, and I was a bit nervous that values had started to drift back down again, but Carvana offered me $19,303 when I did the online appraisal last week.
After making the appointment Thursday, they came to pick up my car Saturday and it was super painless. The Carvana guy took my car for a 15 minute test drive, after which I signed some forms and he handed me the check, put the car on the flatbed and drove off. Altogether it took about 30 minutes. Super easy! If you’re looking to sell a car and don’t want to go through the private party/Craigslist rigamarole, I’d definitely recommend it.
