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How Can I Keep You Away From A Car Dealership Today, My Friend?

It’s a painful realization. The moment that your faithful four-wheeled friend has lit the dashboard for the last time, driven its last mile and triggered your honest mechanic in the city to recommend a “do not resuscitate” order immediately upon inspection. 

It’s going to be a painful weekend. You need to buy a car.

Will you ruin a friend’s weekend by asking for a drop-off at that strange part of town where auto dealerships have congregated like some kind of red light district for unscrupulous business ethics? How about an unspecified pick-up time in the event that you run screaming from the negotiating cubicle after catching the car salesman telling his third lie in less than sixty seconds?

Also, are you looking for a deal? The man in the short-sleeved shirt and clip-on tie says that he’ll work hard for you. Just look at the cheap stick-on placards on the window that read, “Pay Nothing Today!” and “Good Credit. Bad Credit. No Credit. We Accept All!” Who wouldn’t be excited to agree to a thirty-five page legally binding document of small print that couldn’t possibly be trusted even after a two hour haggling session? You’re feeling tired so go ahead and just sign here. And initial here. And here. And here…




Isn't there a better way to buy a car?

There is now. It’s called Carvana. Choose your car online and have it delivered or pick it up at the vending machine. Yes, you read that correctly. A booth that shall dispense your chosen vehicle. Just don’t shake the machine.



From Carvana’s Official YouTube Channel

Buy a car without test driving it? What could possibly go wrong? Fear not. You will be “test owning” it. For seven days, the car is yours to drive. Hear something wrong? Feel a clunk? Think the driver’s seat is giving you lower back pain? Give it back to Carvana. The seven day test drive is new in the field of car sales and it sure does beat a five minute zoom around the sales lot with that chatty car salesman.

About that financing deal? Carvana has its own or you’re free to shop around. Find your own best interest rate from your phone or laptop. No sitting on a greasy chair and rolling around on cheap carpet in a makeshift cubicle at the back of the manager’s office is involved.

But who would actually take the plunge? You don’t know one person who purchased a car like this! You do now. Yours truly bought his compact SUV from Carvana’s site last year and has been zooming around town ever since.



So if you find yourself grieving the loss of that hand-me-down wagon that Dad gifted you on your seventeenth birthday and are equally fearful of placing yourself inside the iron maiden of traditional car dealerships, take a peak at www.carvana.com and learn what it would take to get your next car the same way you buy a vending machine soda. Exact change not necessary.

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