NFT: Where Can You Buy a Used Car?

& Craigslist here in Florida.

Just have to eliminate dealers from the search.

Look online as well...private parties can post on sites like Auto Trader.

When unable to find a car FSBO, I use CarMax and use their website.

Had great luck with Hertz.

HTH
https://www.hertzcarsales.com/ - ( New Window )

often ends up really being a dealer with the photo taken someplace other than their lot.

The cars are sold 'as is'.

Still, Hertz has great prices and deals on used cars.

with warrantys

Ask for Jorge and ask to see the car fax

- Carfax.com
- Cars.com
- CarMax.com
- Carsdirect.com

There is also Carvana.com, they seem interesting and always have a sizable inventory

just installed a vending machine where cars can be purchased.

And no, I'm not kidding.

and had a great experience. I hate dealing with dealerships.

In comment 13966130 Metnut said:

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and had a great experience. I hate dealing with dealerships.

Same here.

virtually all of them are 99% dealers. Facebook has a few private owners but mostly dealers. Still not sure where private owners are selling their cars. Is EVERYONE trading them during a new vehicle purchase?

Where are you located? I recently bought a used car for my sister. Found a guy up in Danbury, CT who seems really down to earth and stands by his conviction that he goes above and beyond selling a used "lemon".

He carries all cars, most of them have 100K plus mileage but many are in very good condition. He seems to specialize in Subaru's.

Here is a link to his website:

https://www.usedcars4youctny.com/default.aspx

We've bought a couple of cars and sold one there. I like the no pressure and haggle free pricing.

While I haven't used it, I've seen private Sellers when I've shopped on Autotrader.com and they have a filter for private sellers only which seems to work pretty good.

But the newer the car the harder it is to find a private seller. I think most are trading in because so many need financing to buy and those moving on from a late-model low-mileage car are probably buying new and financing as well.

I had one as a new driver. Not in any way pretty, but those damn things were tanks. Heavy duty cars, typically had engines that had some extra resiliency built in (additional coolers, heavier duty alternators, etc.).

It's been a long damn time since I've seen one, though.

??

People literally post one sentence listings with a price and picture.

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In comment 13966128 FatMan in Charlotte said:

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just installed a vending machine where cars can be purchased. And no, I'm not kidding.

How does that work?

know. That's a shitload of quarters!

In comment 13966699 FatMan in Charlotte said:

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Quote: Customers start at Carvana's website, where they can buy a car online and choose to have it delivered or pick it up at the vending machine. If they choose the latter, they schedule a time to go to the vending machine site, where they receive a silver "commemorative, oversized Carvana coin" that activates the machine with a rumble and transports the vehicle down from the tower to a ground-floor delivery bay. A robotic lift takes the car down and slides it to the customer, with no human intervention.

So, people actually buy cars on a website without even test driving them?

if you buy a car off a website and choose to pick it up at a vending machine instead of just having it delivered, the test drive thing probably doesn't even come to be a thought!

I think.

and some of the other sites are specializing in new cars. Virtually all of the sites referenced so far in the e-mail return results that are mostly dealers selling.

Makes me wonder whether people sell the cars on their own anymore or does everyone just trade them in?

Facebook has SOME private owners. The other funny thing is so many of the pictures are taken in front of an auto body shop. I guess they don't realize that people can see that in the background or... most people are just stupid.

they delivered the car to my door and I had a 7-day "test drive" period where I could return it no questions ask. I took the car to my mechanic and it all checked out. Was really easy to do this all via the Internet and get the exact car I was looking for and not have to deal with a dealership.

the local paper. I'm in a small town, but the car dealerships don't use the classifieds any more because of all the online ways to lists their cars.