Whats the best place to buy a used car

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Purchased 3 cars from CarMax. No haggling, no bullshit. All great cars.

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I don’t know if you got your car yet but, 4th vote for Carmax.

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Depending on what you want it may not be worth buying used. Interest is generally higher on used and prices for some used cars is more than new ones.

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This is just my opinion as a guy who is really into cars and has owned several over the years. I really like Japanese cars for their real and perceived long term reliability. If you want to keep your car for 10 years like I do then your car will still be worth a decent amount of money if it’s a Honda, Toyota, Mazda and you maintain it. For example, I drive a 2015 accord I bought new for 25K and it’s worth about 11K today with a little over 100 K miles on it. If I were you the Toyota Rav-4, Honda CR-V, and Mazda CX-5 would be on my list. There is also the Carolla Cross, HR-V, and CX-3 if you want an even smalller SUV from these brands. Those cars will hold their value well (if you maintain them - keep service records). To answer your question - depreciation depends on a lot of factors - the market, the brand, how well you maintain the car. So that’s tough to answer.

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I have used Vroom/Texas Direct Auto twice with good results

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I used cars.com and got a great deal.

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Word of mouth. Or if you're willing to spend some time looking around and dropping some cash on a PPI, Craigslist isn't bad.

Dealership for sure.. more reliable

Sewell dealerships are great.

Bought 2 cars from Texas Direct, won't go back there again. 1 from CarMax - pretty painless. 1 from Carvana - very painless.

i have a GLE350 if you want it

Dur truecar.com. They will give you a solid price a cross delears and you can pick.

I didn’t like my exp with Autonation fyi. It was a “new” car that had some work done before the sale including repainting part of the frame and they didn’t disclose it

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