As Carvana crashes, used car dealers, not buyers, stand to win big

Re:As Carvana crashes, used car dealers, not buyers, stand t... by maria2 on Sunday December 11, 2022 @08:59PM (#33949977)

> "I loved Carvana because I bought a great car from them at a better price than the legacy players!"

That's literally the opposite of what the GP said:

> The buying experience was simply excellent for me, and I couldn't be happier with the car I bought. I figured I probably could have gotten a comparable deal slightly cheaper somewhere else, but I would have wasted a ton of time

I mean this politely, but did you really read what you were replying to?

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Re:As Carvana crashes, used car dealers, not buyers, stand t... by bluedino on Sunday December 11, 2022 @09:14PM (#33950062)

I think he was quoting the typical Carvana customer, not the parent poster

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Re:As Carvana crashes, used car dealers, not buyers, stand t... by dragonwriter on Sunday December 11, 2022 @10:40PM (#33950597)

> That's literally the opposite of what the GP said:

Its not, though. Its true the upthread poster focussed on “buying experience” not “price”, but the adverse parts of the typical used car buying experience are a highly evolved optimization for drawing people in with advertised prices while optimizing actual prices without driving buyers off. Carvana’s better buying experience is neither “opposite of” nor even orthogonal to their failure to optimize price, its a direct consequence of them deciding they didn’t need to.

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