Carvana Repeatedly Delivers Defective and Misspecified Vehicles on Trade-In Order
A customer trading in a vehicle to Carvana received a replacement car with mechanical issues, then a second replacement that was uncleaned and had the wrong drivetrain configuration than ordered, and was then told to travel out of the way for pickup with no shipping-cost waiver. The repeated fulfillment failures left the customer wanting to reverse the trade-in entirely, highlighting quality-control and accountability gaps in online vehicle trade/delivery.
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