Selling a car which has a small Carmax Certified sticker on the side window. Should I leave it or remove it? Do people think it's a good thing that it once was a certified car or does Carmax have negative connotations to some folks?
How many miles or years ago was it certified? People may ask that, and it could be a negative if it was over a year ago.
Good question though. I know what you're thinking (Tom Selleck doesn't, but I do...), a "one-owner" car is obviously better, but it DID pass a CarMax Good Enough For Us test. I say leave the sticker on if its been less than 1 year.
Originally Posted by atikovi
I bought it to sell so that's not an issue.
Dude they have a point about the quick turn around sale. Your buyer won't believe you when you tell them you bought it just to sell it.
My BMW was a previous Certified Pre-Owned car back in the day before the previous owner bought it. Really meant nothing since it was a demo with 1500 miles on it.
I'm just surprised you bought a car from carmax to flip. From many postings, it seems that they're pretty good about offering top dollar for a trade in although you can usually do a little bit better. But they're horrible for buying cars because they tend to be priced a little higher than average. As for the sticker, who knows, they might not even notice it. I've left the old CPO sticker on my Mercedes just because I don't think it'd be easy to peel off cleanly.
CarMax use to be very picky. Not so much any more. The car I bought from them, they had my unicorn, the front bumper was repainted and the inside had a large stain when they showed us the car.
That and I don't care if the first owner took really great care of the car, how did the last one do. Only takes one idiot to drive without oil, slam into a curb, etc... to waste away 100k or more of well maintained miles.
To the original poster, unless the "Carmax certification" can somehow transfer to the new buyer, I doubt it means or worth anything. What car are you selling and what's the price?
I say it depends on the potential buyer as to whether it adds value or not. To me, I say no. The CarMax certification just means everything checked out okay when CarMax checked it out before retailing it which should be fairly irrelevant to subsequent buyers.