Sheri C.
Herndon, VAMember since November 2019

Reviews (1)


    • Nov 19, 2019
    • Verified Reviewer

    Carvana

    Run away fast

    Overall Experience:

    Ordered a car online at the beginning of September. I went through my bank to finance because the Carvana rate was insanely high. My car was set to be delivered on September 18th. I received an email (an email and not a call) on the night of September 16th stating that the delivery was delayed and for me to call. I had to call twice to reach someone. I was told that they could not deliver now until October 1st. I complained and asked for the delivery fee to be returned and had to be transferred to another department. I was offered $25 per day at the most.

    Carvana made me take out car insurance starting September 18th (the day my car was supposed to be delivered). So now I am stuck paying a car payment and car insurance for almost a half a month on a car that I do not have. Carvana’s response? For me to call back every day and check. Dealers charge fees for a reason and that is customer service. I asked Carvana what would happen because the payoff amount on my trade-in would be different due to the delay in shipping. Carvana told me that Capital One (who was receiving the payoff amount in the contract) would have to refund me the overpayment.

    Skip to the delivery date on October 1st. Car is delivered by someone who is new and the car does not have the features advertised (BACK UP CAMERA). I have to again speak to someone in management who says that what is advertised on the web and their app can be two completely different things. SERIOUSLY! So I say fine and they offer me $100 for their error in advertising and I buy a separate camera system and have it installed. Car registration was for 45 days and here it is November 15th and I still do not have my tags from October 1st. Did Carvana call me to explain the delay? No, I had to reach out and ask and they emailed me another temporary registration, but I have no idea where the actual registration and tags are in the process. Also, I called Capital One to find out when I would be receiving the refund on the overpayment based on my trade-in value changing due to Carvana's delay in shipping. Capital One explains that they only received the exact payoff amount and not the amount on the contract that I paid and signed for with Carvana. So I called Carvana who tries to explain to me the breakdown after even speaking with finance. So they speak to finance and still refuse to admit to catch that they have tried to steal $450 from me. I insist that Carvana go back and check my contract versus what they paid to Capital One and they FINALLY realize that they did not send in the contract pay off amount. Not only did they not catch this, but they did not even acknowledge THEIR complete and total error in keeping $450 in overpayment on my trade-in value.

    So here I am 45 days after receiving my delayed shipment car that was not as advertised, still with no registration and waiting to find out how Carvana is going to get my money back to me ASAP that they tried to steal from me.

    Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

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    • Nov 22, 2019

      Company Response from Carvana

      Thank you for reaching out to us and sharing your feedback about your purchase. Carvana takes great pride in providing customers with an ideal car buying experience. We want to sincerely apologize for the delay and the miss-annotation on the vehicle. The last thing we would want to do is deliver a vehicle that did not come with the listed features as advertised. Please know that we take these situations very seriously, and we will get this information to the correct departments to hopefully prevent this from occurring again. Although your experience has not been the best with us, we appreciate you continuing to work with our Post Sale department to resolve your concerns. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any further questions or concerns.


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