trade in scam
We were very exited to purchase as car from CARMAX, after selecting a car we found our title had been misplaced- we recently moved into the area. A duplicate was ordered and we finally procured a babysitter to and went in to buy a car. We were SCAMMED and told out estimate of trade in went from 10, 000 - 7, 000 $- in less than 8 weeks. This is unacceptable and just criminal business practice. We are a small hard working family and three thousand dollars to us is a huge amount of money - more than we can afford to find else where or loan. Bad business will spread around fast- all buyers BEWARE !
Being concerned for a person - even in a bad scenario is how I was raised, I am a christian person. I wish I could be one of the entitled crowd, and even have one minute of a day when its was about me, but I am a working mom . I have and will always accept any and all accountability for all that I say and do. Being almost 50, yes younger sounds right. Life is very hard, and I care not at all about not getting what I want, I care about whats right for my family and 3000.00 to us is a huge financial loss. I know there are good people out there to do business with, I will have to look harder find them.
I do not evade responding - obviosly. I clearly stated I read carefully what was signed - that is not evading any questions. And in THIS country attorneys do help consumers based on bad business ethics everyday.
Being honest is difficult but not impossible in any line of business -even car sales. If you care to see what other people are saying about CARMAX read on and on - it is not just me. Supply and demand is not vaild here in this scenario, this was situation was about BAD business and yes is a SCAM. All of the posted comments so far have been from a carmax employee. Read all of the other complaints about CARMX on this site, and you can see I am one of many who have been treated badly. Carmax should care far more about its postive business ethics practices, once again buyer beware.
I have read over dozens of posted CARMAX COMPLAINTS- all fairly recent, this should be an alarming concern to all consumers.
People buy cars every 5 years or so, building a repore of trust is essential - I would think.
I read carefully what I signed, You should be helping me - and your more of a LL. Cooljay or Samuel L Jackson - than a Cary Grant.
We had some few addtional miles on our vehicle, yes- but 3000.00 worth - no. And my complaint is very valid and I am sure you will be hearing about it - and hopefully it does not cause you personally any problems. We deserve to be treated fairly - and that is all I or anyone should ever expect. We are hard working people with young childern to raise in a new area, this should not be our or anyones outcome in dealing with CARMAX. Buyer BEWARE is what I was saying all along, but honset business practices should not and do not include the scenario I have experienced. Doing the right thing is always harder - but it easier to sleep at night when you do.
All I expect is honesty and a fair offer to resolve - a tall order but I know - I believe -it is possible. We are all here to help each other - and to always try to do good.
"We' ll give you a written offer" - now thats proof ! - " we " your then one who needs to stay off the boards - the people do deserve to hear from the consumers not the SCAMERS ! Filling a complaint is not whinning - its informing, as I have done to every agency on line. Being honest is difficult and requires integrity, it also requires accountablity. Reasonable standards of busness do not allow for such huge margins - three thousand dollar drop is just not honest business . So if your the manager of CARMAX or the chief mechanic-your training wheels should be re installed, and business ethics courses refreshed, you should be trying to help- not hinder.
This format is for consumers who have been scammed, mislead and mistreated- not for the people commiting the scams or trying to cover the tracks !
I have recieved other emails from legitimate consumers and attoneys - a SCAM IS A SCAM. All of the comments prove a SCAM and desire to rationalize it makes you " CARMAX " look even worse to all who are reading.
I am a older educated car shopper, I have purchased many cars, never have I been SCAMMED or shill game played. My family went through a major cross country move with two very small childern, a small piece of paper - as a title is was easily misplaced.
I am also a seasoned sales person with 27 years of experience, and NEVER have I miss lead or changed the terms of a sale. I believe completely to do honest business in the fast paced economy means - DOING THE RIGHT THING . This was WRONG, and reguardless of any comments from an obvious CARMAX employee to try to save face this was BAD BUSINESS and every potentinal consumer needs to informed. We will go else where and also be sure to tell every friend, neighbor and collegue to BEWARE of the SCAMS at CARMAX. We never had any preconvieved price in mind for a trade in, we went to CARMAX based on the TV AD that misleads people into thinking CARMAX can be a honset place to buy a car. We were told the trade in value, we thought it was fair so we based our plans on an old fashion theory of TRUST- a concept totally missing from the CARMAX experience- for us and the dozens of other complaints posted just in the past few months on this a many other websites.
Nothing had changed - at all the vehilce was not damamged or mileage greatly increased. This was a SCAM and was criminal, we were planning on this trade in price or reasonably close to it, a few hundred dollars is normal regression in price, this WAS CRIMINAL. Unless you work for CARMAX - in that case, your part of the problem not a solution.
worst car buying experience ever
I highly recommend staying as far away from CarMax as possible. I purchased a vehicle, a week later it needed an entire new brake job. They agreed to fix a window with a rock chip when I purchased the vehicle and then tried to get out of it. In replacing the window they trashed my paint and dented my door He also BLATANTLY lied about the window he put in saying how new it was... and it is OBVIOUSLY NOT. Fine... But dont lie about it AND ruin my door in the process. I have been in tears about how badly this experience was. DO NOT GO TO CARMAX. Especially the Menomonee Falls, WI location. The service manager, MIke, will treat you like crap and ruin your car right in front of you. Worst experience ever. So much stress.
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I hate carmax
My nightmare started on August of 2011 when I decided to buy a convertible Mercedes at Carmax. After only having the car for 2 weeks, I had a huge leak on the roof, engine problems and many other problems. I brought the car to Carmax at least 10 times regarding this matter, since I live in South Florida and it rains a lot, I would come to work soak and wet...
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CARMAX CAN NOT GET IT RIGHT-REFUND IN ORDER
Do to the poor work on my Ford Focus done by your fellow Ford dealership in Roseville(Threw Carmax) and still charging me $60 for misdiagnoses(it cost me $500.00 for Carmax's and Fords mistakes on just 1 many repairs needed and endangered lives for failing to reinstall caliper pin, I will no long be intrested in a Ford products.My engine was rebuilt poorly buy Carmax twice and Ford Roseville once.Engine rear seal leaks, harmonic balancer pulley no good, failed to replace old parts.failed to put one of the bolts back on distributor or whatever the damn part where spark plug wires attach.The list goes on.Feel free to relay this to Roseville Ford. BOYCOTT CARMAX Auto Superstore and Ford Dealership rosevile, Ca. Many of Carmax's cars are lemons.they lowball you on trade-in and their service center does extremely poor work on repairs.If you have extended warranty they still try to take for every dollar they can get.
BOYCOTT CARMAX AUTO SUPERSTORES, Ford Motor Co.Service Centers both in Roseville, Ca. and The Warranty Group
My new contact info: Kevin Thomas
Sacramento, Ca phone: [protected] email:kevintthomas@yahoo.com
unethical & racist business policies
GUILTY OF: Horrible & Unprofessional Dealership services to customers, I would definately recommend to anyone; who doesn't liked to be screwed, TO NOT BUY ANY CAR FROM -CarMax, Their Dealership owners, are known former Klansmen, and ex-cons!! The Salesmen, are often re-hired & fired again for numerous charges of sexual misconduct with female car buyer...
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We purchased a vehicle from Carmax and it was financed for 6 years. We faithfully made very payment on it, but when my husband and I were both laid off at the same time, we fell behind in our payments. I called Carmax and asked them to work with us on the payments and they said they don't do that. Every single one of our creditors has worked with us, including our mortgage company. When my husband was called by to work, I contacted Carmax and told them that we were going to work on catching up the payments and I, at that time, sent them a payment which was more than one month in an attempt to start getting the payments up to date. The customer service rep was quite polite about it, and took the payment and a few days later, our car was repossessed and they sold it for $500 and sent us a bill for $3, 000, which is what we owed on it. We had one year to go to pay this vehicle off and they refused to work with us, repossessed our car, and now want us to pay for a car that we no longer own. I would not recommend them to anyone. If you are laid off, they don't care. They will NOT work with you as other creditors do. They will grab your car, sell it cheap, and send you a bill for what you had owed on it. It is an unfair business practice, especially in hard economic times. They are heartless and do not care about their customers.
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dishonest corrupt
WARRANTY WORK POOR.
REPAIRS NOT PROPERLY PERFORMED, WORSE THE MAINTENANCE LIED ABOUT TWO OBVIOUS PROBLEMS.FRONT DISC WERE BAD AND THEY SAID THE BRAKE PADS NEEDED TO BE BROKE IN. VALVE COVER GASKET LEAKS, NOT REPLACED BUT FILLED WITH SEALANT UP.
SALES AGENTS BEGIN BY HAVING YOU TAKE LOAN WITH- THEIR FINANCE COMPANY -FINANCE, ASSOCIATED WITH CAR MAX. PROBLEM IS IT IS A MONEY SCAM THAT WELL OKAY REALLY READ THE COMPLICATED FORM IT WAS NO DEAL HIGH INTEREST AND GUESS WHAT THEY DO NOT LIKE WHITE PEOPLE. THEY DO NOT HONOR ANT COMPLAINTS. NONE.
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poor service/ poor product
I originally purchased my 2005 Ford Explorer from CarMax at Town Center in Kennesaw, GA in June of 2008. From the moment I purchased this car, I have had problem after problem after problem. On July 30, 2008 the tail light began to blow out every time it was replaced. I brought the car in for the repair of a fuse issue which, was resolved with little...
Read full complaint and 1 commentterrible service!
I would not recommend Carmax of Plano, TX to anyone. Their website claims that they do a 125 point inspection and spend an average of 12 hours going over each car before they put it on their lot for sale. Nothing could be further from the truth. I bought a 2008 Pontiac G6 from Carmax Plano and my experience with them turned into a nightmare. After I...
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I bought a 2006 Pacifica in 2009; I also bought their Maxcare Extended Warranty. The car has shut off without warning >20 times. It has been taken into CarMax and the Chrysler Dealers; numerous times, "repairs" have been made. Yet the car continues to shut off without warning. Furthermore, CarMax has stated they cannot recreate the problem so the car is fine. I'm afraid for my safety, the safety of my family and the safety of others driving around me. CarMax's response is there is nothing they can do but they will buy my car back for less than 1/2 of what I paid for it and less than what is still owed on the car, and for me to buy another car from them. I mean they've got to be kidding me! The Maxcare Extended Warranty is still in effect but it seems like CarMax is trying to ignore me as long as they can until the warranty expires and they no longer have to do anything. If I had the luxury of taking the car to a junk yard and buying a new one I would do it tomorrow! But here I am a hazard on the road driving this death vehicle, because it's my only means of transportation. I have contacted a lawyer; I have filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and the Florida Attorney General.
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no authorization for second inquiry
Had scheduled appointment from an employee. Schedule off to meet the senior consultant. 4/20/2011 Armen, he was late. He arrived and went into his office. Ran Experian then he ran Equifax. No authorization request to remove profile. Spoke with manager Mike call headquarters. Spoke with Eisha, he said will not be removed. No one else to speak to.File the complaint to Federal Trade Commission remove from profile. Stop another dealership from finance. never have my credit ran twice same dealership. Cleaning my credit inquiry to many bring score down.
They sold me a broken car i believe they knew the car was broken, one week after i got the car i notice it was broke called them back and they refuse to take the car back. They only wanted to fix it they fixed it and it broke again. Ever since i bought the car i have been having problems they refuse to help me or take the car back.
deceptive and fradulent advertising
Carmax advertises a 125 point inspection on all cars they sell. This is a deceptive and fraudulent advertising claim tha tis not worth the paper it is written on. I recently purcashed a car from them that had to have $1455 worth of service work that their 125 point inspection should have caught and they should have done the serivce work as they advertise. Buyer beware if you shop at Carmax
auto
I want to make a long story short, I just want to get the facts about Carmax out there. My husband and I purchased two vehicles in 2008 and since then both vehicles have been in the shop for a wide variety of very expensive problems. The "extended warranty' we purchased was a joke and very seldom offered us any relief on repairs. The 2007 H3 we purchased has been sent from Carmax to Hummer for a problem we have had "fixed" twice. Of course this time its to the tune of $1200., on us. The service has always been horrible, and the people unsympathetic to our situation. PLEASE DON"T DO BUSINESS WITH CARMAX.
Jacob Janowski the Ops manager is the most useless person at carmax in Naperville IL. You can find him at his desk playing games on his phone or messing around on facebook. The managers under him are just as dumb, Jason Beatty, Allen, Eric, Lynn, all useless and dumb. None of these clowns can make it at a real job that's why they're at carmax where they sell overpriced wrecked cars and beat up rental cars. Anyone that comes across these so called managers will find out how crooked and smarmy they are. This naperville location is truly the bottom of the barrel for a crappy used car lot run by clueless puppets.
All managers at that location are clueless right Skip? Corporate puppet rainbow boy.
Carmax does not sell safe cars. Technician's are honest to managers and these managers who know nothing about cars make the decision as to whether the car should be repaired or not depending on cost reports. Sad company especially Naperville IL. Location. Jacob Janowski is OPS manager and worst offender.
sale/service of vehicle purchase
1. Headlight - When we were going over the final checklist for the purchase of car, we noticed one of the headlights was not working. We found this to be pretty amusing as the salesman told us that no one does the check list before purchasing. My wife said I want to test everything out and sure enough the first thing we checked, did not function. SALESGUY...
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Less than a month ago I purchased a 2008 ford truck wth less than 30k from Carmax in Milwaukee, the vehicle looked good and I liked it, while driving home I noticed a horrible screaching sound coming from the wheels on turns, I became concerned but thought that perhaps the chemical that they put on wheels when cars are cleaned was the cause of the sound. I...
Read full complaint and 1 commentno air in hot summer
Bought a Dodge pick up truck, on 5th day A/C stopped working. I brought truck directly from work in to service nd was considering turning it back in on their 5 day return policy. Agent in Service department stated needed an appointment to bring it in and it would still be under warranty in a week when they could offer me an appointent. Couldn't get an...
Read full complaint and 1 commentwas severly lied to by sales person
I would not do business with Carmax dealership if it were the only one on earth. I spoke to a sales person named Ashley Shadle, who took my credit app. At that time I told her what I had as a down, 10 min later she said I was approved and to give her $49.00 transfer fee. I did as she instructed when I went to pick up the vehicle and went to do the paper work they could not use social security or Iowa teachers retirement as income making me unqualified at the rate I was quoted by the sales person Ashley. It was stated to me I had to triple my down payment making it imposible for me to qualify. After traveling over 100 miles and trying to complete the paper work after 10pm they had no intrest in helping me get a loan, In my opinion these peope are no more than cheats, deceivers and liars with the integerty of a jack ### . The people managing, operating and conducting daily business are morally and ethacally bankrupt boyals on the ### cheeks of life. gary and carol craig lawton oklahoma
Where to begin on this one. First off, if you're going to write a complaint, don't make it sound like you're an uneducated ### if you want people to take you seriously. Second of all, how are they "cheats" and "unethical" by NOT trying to sell you a car? If you had to triple your down payment it prob means you were approved by a sub-prime lender which means you have bad credit. Bad credit means you would have a high interest rate, therefor CarMax would be making a ton of money off of you! So they were unethical and cheats by not making a lot of money off of you? What did you teach in Iowa? Because it obviously wasn't English or Economics. However, I'm glad you did come on here to show everyone your professionalism by calling people jack ### and boils. Sounds to me like if you had a little more intelligence you could understand how a lending institution works. P.S. PE is not a subject so I suggest you give the people of Iowa your retirement money back as you clearly deceived people as an educator.
Sounds like you could not afford the car you were purchasing. Try the bus.
125 point inspection
I bought a 2006 Toyota 4Runner SR5 from the certified Toyota CarMax in Richmond, VA in the fall of 2008. The truck had only 20K miles on it, still had the factory warranty. The main reason why I decided to purchase it. They shipped it down here to the CarMax on Independence Blvd here in Charlotte for free, which I thought was nice. The day that I went to...
Read full complaint and 4 commentsmalfunctioning fuel gauge
Be very careful when buying automobiles from CarMax. I purchased my car Dec 2009 and was quite happy with the purchase in the beginning. First of all they add lots of features with gloom and doom scenarios to take the low price to a all time high. Gap insurance and a costly extended warranty took the car price so high, I am still trying to gain ground on my loan. They stripped the car of everything, the owners manual, the floor mats and had mixed matched tires on it. When I expressed my concern, they blamed it on the facility they acquired the vehicle from (another CarMax). Four to five months into ownership, I noticed the fuel gauge was fluxuating so spiratically I never knew how much fuel I really had. I took the car in for repair. They had me wait an entire day in the waiting room only to tell me at the end of the day I would have to rent a car for the weekend. It turns out the car needed a sensor and it had to be ordered. I return on Monday to pick up the car only to be told a part broke while fixing it, but my understanding is they broke a part and once again a rental car for me. Once I returned the rental this time and took my car, I didn't even make it home before the gauge began fluxuating again, so I called the service manager who was just about to leave, I was told and I raced back over there. Here we go, a great deal of pass the customer to someone else who would never be available. I took yet another day off to bring the car in again. I would eventually take a whole week of days off and never was this issue resolved. But back to taking another day off, I brought the car in again, left it over night again and once I picked it up this time, I drove it for approximately a half an hour and with the gauge and the electronic device reading a quarter tank, the car simply stopped in the middle of the street. Of course I was livid. The car was towed back to CarMax and the service man actually saw that the gauge read a fourth tank and couldn't understand it. They sent the car to a Ford dealership that they have a relationship with and they found nothing wrong. Go figure. I took it to my own choice of Ford dealership, but their hands were tied because since CarMax had already hit the insurance company up for repairs on this issue, they couldn't charge for that again. As I sat in the waiting room for what was over what would be 5 shifts on the job, I heard horror stories of the incompetance of the service department of CarMax. If you buy a car from there, you better be a mechanic or have one on speed dial.
Be very careful when buying automobiles from CarMax. I purchased my car Dec 2009 and was quite happy with the purchase in the beginning. First of all they add lots of features with gloom and doom scenarios to take the low price to a all time high. Gap insurance and a costly extended warranty took the car price so high, I am still trying to gain ground on my loan. They stripped the car of everything, the owners manual, the floor mats and had mixed matched tires on it. When I expressed my concern, they blamed it on the facility they acquired the vehicle from (another CarMax). Four to five months into ownership, I noticed the fuel gauge was fluxuating so spiratically I never knew how much fuel I really had. I took the car in for repair. They had me wait an entire day in the waiting room only to tell me at the end of the day I would have to rent a car for the weekend. It turns out the car needed a sensor and it had to be ordered. I return on Monday to pick up the car only to be told a part broke while fixing it, but my understanding is they broke a part and once again a rental car for me. Once I returned the rental this time and took my car, I didn't even make it home before the gauge began fluxuating again, so I called the service manager who was just about to leave, I was told and I raced back over there. Here we go, a great deal of pass the customer to someone else who would never be available. I took yet another day off to bring the car in again. I would eventually take a whole week of days off and never was this issue resolved. But back to taking another day off, I brought the car in again, left it over night again and once I picked it up this time, I drove it for approximately a half an hour and with the gauge and the electronic device reading a quarter tank, the car simply stopped in the middle of the street. Of course I was livid. The car was towed back to CarMax and the service man actually saw that the gauge read a fourth tank and couldn't understand it. They sent the car to a Ford dealership that they have a relationship with and they found nothing wrong. Go figure. I took it to my own choice of Ford dealership, but their hands were tied because since CarMax had already hit the insurance company up for repairs on this issue, they couldn't charge for that again. As I sat in the waiting room for what was over what would be 5 shifts on the job, I heard horror stories of the incompetance of the service department of CarMax. If you buy a car from there, you better be a mechanic or have one on speed dial.
ccancelation of sales contract
Purchased Lexus Truck from them and obtained financing financing through a lender they offered name Slander. I live in in another state title and registration had to be done in my state. When I came back home in September 2010 after purchasing I went to local dmv with my paperwork from purchase. Local dmv explains that I should have gotten the title from dealership. I called dealership and they said they were waiting on it to come from Toyota. Then once they got it they send it to the house and had FedEx receipt to prove it. Long story short I waited from September to the first week of December to get my title. By this time I didn't have 3 thousand to pay taxes because my finances changed slightly. However I did make payments to Santander. I asked in January 2011 if Santandercould
For some reason my story was cut off ! However I was able to get loan company to help ne by pitting MARCH 2011 AT THE END OF LOAN. Then was able to pay taxes. It didn't matter because karma still wanted their car back. Is this legal?
Carmax repossessed my fully paid off car! they offered me 16000$ for my trade in. I got a car that was 3, 000$ cheaper. I even got money back. the next month car was repossessed! not to mention the car I sold them they title jumped and the new owner did a hit and run and I was hit with a lawsuit! I got the lawsuit cleared but it doesn't make it ok! I showed jody saunders carmax's paralegal all the proof my car was wronfully repossed! she ignore's me! the sales manager gabriel promised me a meeting with the right people and he ignored me! carmax is absolutely thee worst business I mean scam in the us... how are they still open! after I take them to court they won't be!