Car Retailer Retracts Agreed Sale Price After Paperwork Due to System Error
A seller completed the full paperwork process for selling a vehicle to CarMax at an agreed price, only to have the offer retracted after the fact due to a system error. This creates a severe breach of trust and wastes significant customer time. The incident reflects a gap between quoting systems and backend valuation consistency.
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