Originally Posted by Red__Zed

KBB fair trade-in is generally (more or less) black book price. It is pulled from the same data set.

Part of their bad rep comes from user error--everyone puts their car as "excellent," when it generally is not, nevermind it's hard to find someone that cares.




The other consideration with trade-in is tax benefits (which vary by state). I saved $4k or so trading my mustang instead of selling--otherwise I'd have never traded it in.