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Originally Posted by MattP725
Wow thats shocking considering the positive reviews generally heard. Guess ill go private sale or see if a dealership would buy it back.
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You get positive and negative reviews about CarMax's pricing offers. It depends on a lot of things, but you either get a great price or you don't. First, you've got the condition of the car. The closer to stock it is, the easier it is for them to resell. It also has to be in pretty good nick mechanically with as few aesthetic problems as possible.
You then have to factor in timing. If you come to carmax with a RWD sports car in the dead of winter, they will lowball you, because nobody is shopping for sports cars in the dead of winter.
But they can occasionally give higher prices than expected because even if a car isn't popular locally, they may be wildly popular in another region across the country, and CarMax can give you top dollar for it in Baltimore, knowing that it will sell like hotcakes in Houston (just an example).