I thought I would share our experience selling our car to get prepared for our MYP delivery in a month or so. Your experience may differ but thought I'd share all our detials.
Car - trading/selling in was a 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee with 66K miles in nice condition.
When we first place our order for the Y I quickly got quotes from Carvana, Car Max and Vroom. This was 2.5 weeks ago. The values they gave were $27,807, $28,400 and $28,721 respectively. At the same time I put in all the info to Tesla for a trade value. A couple of days later it came back at $26,100 (even with KY tax break it was still a bit lower).
Then about 5 days ago we finally said ok let's sell it early (we have another car to drive in the meantime) instead of waiting until late Jan and delivery. My thought was values would be the highest before Christmas. So then I went on and re-did my quotes. Keep in mind this was only about 1.5 weeks later and we got Carvana = $29,550, Vroom = $28,423 and CarMax = $28,400. I found it interesting how much they jumped around.
So we selected to sell to Carvana. You click "approve offer" on then it sends you to a document upload screen. You upload pics of your title and drivers license, that simple. Then they tell you they have to "check ownership" and will get back. About 12 hrs later they said approved and now you select your pick up appointment and how you would like to be paid. We selected check. On our appointment day (yesterday) a guy rolls up. He asks you to start the car and he takes a pic of the odometer and the vin. We then literally signed 3 papers to transfer title and accept our check. He took both keys and we were done. That simple.
I was so skeptical of this process. We have never sold to one of those places. I figured they would give you a number and then on day of delivery they would show up and try to nick pick and weasel their way down to a different pay out. Granted our car was in amazing shape for a 2017 with 66K miles. When you fill out the questionnaire about your vehicle to get the quote we were honest but I also selected the top option on condition. we did however have the smallest chip in the windshield. So small the repair guy said he wouldn't even bother fixing it as it could make it worse. I thought "oh my gosh he is going to nail me for that". Nope. Nothing. Guy didn't even care or look around at the car.
If you read none of the above here is the cliff notes. Sell to Carvana, fill out the quotes a couple of times for all of them as they do change. KNow this is as painless as it gets.
Car - trading/selling in was a 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee with 66K miles in nice condition.
When we first place our order for the Y I quickly got quotes from Carvana, Car Max and Vroom. This was 2.5 weeks ago. The values they gave were $27,807, $28,400 and $28,721 respectively. At the same time I put in all the info to Tesla for a trade value. A couple of days later it came back at $26,100 (even with KY tax break it was still a bit lower).
Then about 5 days ago we finally said ok let's sell it early (we have another car to drive in the meantime) instead of waiting until late Jan and delivery. My thought was values would be the highest before Christmas. So then I went on and re-did my quotes. Keep in mind this was only about 1.5 weeks later and we got Carvana = $29,550, Vroom = $28,423 and CarMax = $28,400. I found it interesting how much they jumped around.
So we selected to sell to Carvana. You click "approve offer" on then it sends you to a document upload screen. You upload pics of your title and drivers license, that simple. Then they tell you they have to "check ownership" and will get back. About 12 hrs later they said approved and now you select your pick up appointment and how you would like to be paid. We selected check. On our appointment day (yesterday) a guy rolls up. He asks you to start the car and he takes a pic of the odometer and the vin. We then literally signed 3 papers to transfer title and accept our check. He took both keys and we were done. That simple.
I was so skeptical of this process. We have never sold to one of those places. I figured they would give you a number and then on day of delivery they would show up and try to nick pick and weasel their way down to a different pay out. Granted our car was in amazing shape for a 2017 with 66K miles. When you fill out the questionnaire about your vehicle to get the quote we were honest but I also selected the top option on condition. we did however have the smallest chip in the windshield. So small the repair guy said he wouldn't even bother fixing it as it could make it worse. I thought "oh my gosh he is going to nail me for that". Nope. Nothing. Guy didn't even care or look around at the car.
If you read none of the above here is the cliff notes. Sell to Carvana, fill out the quotes a couple of times for all of them as they do change. KNow this is as painless as it gets.
