Car Dealership Delays Loan Payoff Processing After Vehicle Purchase
After selling a vehicle, CarMax took weeks to transmit the loan payoff to the lender, leaving the seller responsible for ongoing interest. There is no transparent timeline or escalation path for payoff processing. This is a situational operational delay rather than a structural software gap.
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