CarMax rescinded car sale after handing over keys over license paperwork
A buyer completed paperwork, insurance, and took delivery of a financed vehicle, only to have CarMax rescind the deal days later over a name/license discrepancy involving a temporary paper license. This is an individual dispute about sales process integrity, not a recurring software-addressable pattern.
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