Where to begin? Let's start with the easy one - carvana. First off, they suck in every way a company can suck. They are literally losing hundreds of millions of dollars ($330 million in '21 to be exact) and aside from clearly being a ponzi scheme, they built those awful car vending machines that will truly be the covid-era equivalent of the dot-com bust. If you bought a vehicle through carvana, well, you get what you deserve. Like the parent companies, Ugly Duckling or the your-credit-is-so-bad you need to shop at DriveTime. That is who "owns" carvana. As for your new truck, good for you. I stopped buying "new" when everybody colluded to offer "no haggle pricing" - if I am going to roll my fat arse to your dealership, you better damn well square off across the table from me, otherwise, why am I here? That is when I found a few websites like carindigo.com and started to enjoy buying very gently used-new cars. $100k bmw with 3,400 miles for $65k? Yes, I will take that, and that was supposedly at the height of the chip shortage and dearth of used autos.....
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