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Carvana Reviews Summary

Carvana has a rating of 1.4 stars from 531 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Carvana most frequently mention customer service, delivery date and point inspection. Carvana ranks 577th among Car Buying sites.

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Maryland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Old bate and switch
July 27, 2022

When I was within my seven day moneyback guarantee, Carvana promised to fix my brakes, after the seven day money back guarantee they declined fixing the brakes, also the car was already almost $8000 over priced, missing parts and not working key fob.

Date of experience: July 27, 2022
Georgia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I asked for a quote from Carvana to buy my car. I got a response right away, and it was very competitive with the others Vroom, Carmax, KBB, CashforyourCar. I provided drivers license, mileage, & title pics - and they came on time. Inspected the car - were knowledgable and friendly, and I received the bill of sale, confirmations and money in the bank was the next day. I did not even need a test drive, as they need to drive the car onto the carrier - TJ was excellent, and they made the decision - no haggling. Perfect experience. I would not use anyone else when I go to sell or buy.

Date of experience: July 27, 2022
Massachusetts
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I paid a deposit for a coming soon car. I received an email saying the car was being serviced for me and then nothing else. 10 days later I logged in to see a message saying the car was no longer available. No email communication. Customer services said the car may have had a problem at the inspection so I should look for another. I'd wasted 2 weeks by this time, I asked if I was getting any service gesture discount on delivery or something for the problem I was told no it's basically bad luck try again. A very vague business practise I think, no thanks I won't be trying again with this poor service and dreadful customer recovery practise. How to destroy a relationship before it gets off the ground!

Date of experience: July 27, 2022
Louisiana
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Same Old Same Thing
July 26, 2022

There's nothing new here except a long drawn out string on emails from nice people promising things they can't deliver. Inspected cars that aren't. The usual you'll find at any car dealer. If Carvana inspected this car, I'm Abraham Lincoln.

Date of experience: July 26, 2022
North Dakota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Most adds now lead to Carvana. Sort of feels like a annoying funnel. So choose a car that could be delivered on a day I was around for it and had no scratches. Turns out they could not deliver by the day they said they could. Annoying that they had it in the computer wrong. But wait it gets better. Now missing things that were in the pictures and has scratches that were never mentioned in the add. So this vehicle is now several thousand dollars over priced with no negotiation for said price. Only thing available is take it or leave it. Positive note I have already spoke with about 40 people on not using Carvana and most have been really receptive to the idea of not using Carvana

Date of experience: July 25, 2022
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I placed an order to buy a car but canceled a few hours later. I got a confirmation that the order was canceled so I thought it was all good and happy. However, even after it was canceled they tried to pull the money (over $60K) out of my bank via ACH payment. They continue to do this days after it was canceled. I was able to make the stop payment from my bank but they still send me emails that I need to pay. I called the company and a gal started to get really aggressive and eventually hangup the phone on me! Very unprofessional company and the system is all messed up! Be careful doing business with them!

Date of experience: July 22, 2022
Minnesota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The very beginning
July 21, 2022

I just took 1 look at Carvana. I typed in my current vehicle which is old it's a 2007 GMC Acadia. It is maxed out with luxury items, leather dvd and the rest. Clean in and out running and no accidents. Car ana offer $300. You get $300 when you junk your car. Get real and lost my $20,000. I was by no means looking to get rich off the Acadia but damn.

Date of experience: July 21, 2022
Arizona
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Liars and Thieves'
July 19, 2022

Carvana is in the habit of saying one thing and doing another.
Instance #1. I was promised a $500 referral and after 2 months of no communication and me having to call back, I was informed that Carvana can not do that. AFTER THEY PROMISED to give me this referral bonus.
Instance #2. After I informed CARVANA that a piece of the vehicle (a stock piece that all models of this car come standard with) was missing, They basically told me, "Tough $#*!, Don't buy the car then".
NEVER DO BUSINESS WITH THESE LIARS.

Date of experience: July 19, 2022
New Jersey
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Great for selling!
July 19, 2022

Super easy experience to sell a car. Gave details of my car, Uploaded some documents, got a quote and scheduled a time for them to come pick up the car. I had some issues with the title before they would come get the car, which is the only reason it took more then a week to complete the process. Cut me a check and took the hunk of junk away. Awesome!

Date of experience: July 19, 2022
Mississippi
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Major Tag Delay and Ticket
July 16, 2022

I purchased a vehicle for my son through Carvana. The vehicle was intended as a birthday present. It would also be needed for transportation to school and work. Happy with the vehicle. Slight delay in it's delivery. However, the worst experience was after the initial purchase. I've been waiting for a permanent tag for more than 2 months. I received one ticket to date. I cannot use the vehicle until I have a permanent tag and Carvana continues to insist that the drive out tag is good for 3 months. I am in the state of Mississippi? A drive out tag is only good for 7 days in my state. All this information is on the department of motor vehicles website. Carvana doesn't seem to care about this issue, so currently I have a vehicle that I cannot use. As of this post. The vehicle is parked in the garage. This temporary tag is not valid in my state. Calling them to explain does no good. Customer service leaves a lot to be desired.

Date of experience: July 16, 2022
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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They can't keep their promises
July 15, 2022

I tried to buy a car from caravana. They promised delivery 3x they couldn't deliver the car after 3 broken promises it was my birthday present and had a trip scheduled around it. The local office kept they didn't have time to clear the codes to get thru emissions and blamed lack of staff. I told them i would pick it up... Nope they would have to rewrite my contract. I wanted out of the vending machine... Nope... It's the most horrible car buying experience i have ever had. I said i don't want it and leave me alone. The tried to deliver it and we're calling me from in front of my house with no warning. I wasn't there but Chad called me excited to have my car leaving voicemails. I was busy at the movies which i took my new car to i bought locally $#*! CARVANA. Unless you want a car months before you want it

Date of experience: July 15, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Poor Service- Did not honor contract
July 13, 2022

I was moving from Pittsburgh to Miami in June 2022, and scheduled to sell my Toyota Corolla to Carvana (pickup) on June 29th. This was originally submitted, and agreed to on June 12th, 19 days before pickup. 30 minutes before my scheduled time, the driver called me and refused to pickup my car because she was not prepared to pick the car up at the particular address due to "Pittsburgh being busy this time of day".

Despite me asking to move the location and being willing to drive my car to Carvana, meet any other place, etc, they refused and said I would be "rescheduled for tomorrow"- the day I was leaving. I called the help center which was based NOT in Pittsburgh, and couldn't do any scheduling. They refused to connect me to the Pittsburgh office, and could not reschedule me at all as "my window to sell the car had closed". Horrible customer service, ineffective helpline, abrupt change of plans for spurious reasons, and left me in the lurch to sell my car. Luckily the Toyota dealership was prompt, professional, and bought my car that day.

IfI could give zero stars, I would

Date of experience: July 13, 2022
Massachusetts
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Literally Not Legal
July 13, 2022

Carvana illegally sold me a car they don't hold the legal title to without my knowledge. I can't legally drive it now and they expect me to just deal with it and keep paying for it. They didn't even TELL me I my temp plates were expiring - I found out when I called on July 6 wondering about the registration that they expired THAT DAY - and was told they couldn't be renewed or extended and that the delay was because they were still in the process of "flipping the title" and were having trouble clearing the liens. They suggested I find other means of transportation for an indefinite period of time, and said they'd send me a check for $250 for my trouble. That's $164 LESS than a single car payment- which I was told, I am expected to continue making. They are unwilling to take the car back because it's outside the 7 day return window (lol) and the 100 day warranty expires in 19 days- while the car is inoperable.

I am a Realtor - and bought the car to use as my primary vehicle for work. Obviously, not being able to legally use my car is a huge problem, considering that's the money to PAY for the car. Aside from that, I am in the process of treating several extremely progressive diseases and require reliable transportation to multiple medical appointments weekly. I would never have bought a car online, however at the time I was recovering from brain surgery and wasn't able to run around looking at and test driving cars. I put $5500 down on the thing to make the payments manageable so I can't even AFFORD alternate means of transportation.

It's obviously illegal, and they obviously don't care. I hope they burn. They're ruining people's lives, and doing it on purpose. NOTE: If you call in about something like this and mention that you are willing to take a legal approach, they will refuse to speak to you at all going forward - they mark your file as having "gone legal" and will hang up on you.

Literal, actual criminals, doing actual crime - and then telling you you can't get out of your contract because it's legally binding. Absurd.

Date of experience: July 13, 2022
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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All their cars are way over bluebook prices, they over charge and will not trust you will have a 2 hour conversation with your bank and waste your time and delay an order that was supposely approved when it realy isnt. Do NOT BUY OR CONSIDER THESE SCAMMERS THAT WANT TO SUCK YOU IN FOR WAY MORE THAN THE CARS ARE WORTH AND YOUR DIGNITY,

Date of experience: July 12, 2022
Virginia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Please do not deal with this company. I purchased a 2013 Toyota Rav4 with 63K on the clock from them. On paper everything looked great. Less than 2 months after receiving the car, it developed a rattling/scraping noise. All 4 wheels needed new brake pads and rotors, with one of the rear rotors cracked, at over $1,000. Zero support from Carvana in resolving the situation. Their so-called 150 point inspection is clearly meaningless. This should easily have been red flagged during inspection and left the car unsafe to drive. Their customer support was non-existent. Avoid at all costs.

Date of experience: July 12, 2022
Indiana
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Garbage
July 12, 2022

Carvana in my opinion is a company that prey's on people, the offer I received on my vehicle was over 10k less than fair market value! I was offered 19k for a 2016 Chevy Silverado LTZ Z71 with 73k on it. KBB and NADA gave me a cash offer of 31K, I sold the vehicle to Ray Skillman for a no haggle price of just under 30k! I would not recommend this crappy car company to anyone!

Date of experience: July 12, 2022
New Jersey
1 review
3 helpful votes
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They will drive you CRAZY! Better off going to a dealership. Worst experience ever! They do not care about your satisfaction or if you buy from them or not.
1. Poor customer service: decentralized support staff, get different answers from different people, no follow through when they say will follow up, overall lack of communication.
2. Even a manager from their headquarters never called me back as scheduled.
3. Wrong time sensitive documents were sent.
4. They delayed the delivery 3 times

Even after we canceled our order, after the third delay, they did not ask why or want feedback.

Date of experience: July 11, 2022
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Waited 9 days, took half a day off work to be at home at delivery time only to be called an hour before to say that the car had been damaged in the initial transport and that I could take the damaged car and get it fixed at their repair center without telling me where they are, or if I'd get a rental, or they could fix it and who knows when I'd get it. I had to get my insurance back on my old car as it will expire at midnight, cancel their insurance for the new car. Called them 2x with no call back as promised. Imagine this happening with a real company that can spell SERVICE. As far as I'm concerned, they are a service fraud. Take your chances elsewhere.

Date of experience: July 9, 2022
Oklahoma
1 review
24 helpful votes
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Don't trust what they "say"
July 8, 2022

Did two purchases back to back. They were supposed to handle registration then I get sent packet to register myself. Then get charged ridiculous amount of registration fees that they refuse to reimburse. Do trust what they "say"... read the fine print even if it is 30 pages long. Out hundreds of dollars because I was naive enough to take a company as honest to the word. Nope, they sneak stuff in the fine print even after telling you man to man something else. Integrity is lacking.

Date of experience: July 8, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Viewing pictures
July 7, 2022

So annoying that you view pictures in their list and have to start back to the top. Why do i have waste my time scrolling back to where i left off! Why?! That should be an easy fix. Can view app that have this

Date of experience: July 7, 2022

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Carvana is a better way to buy a car. Skip the dealership and buy online. Save $1,430 on average per purchase. Free delivery. 7-day money back guarantee.


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