Amazon Lets You Buy Used Cars Now In Just A Few Clicks - Here's How

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You tin now bargain utilized and certified pre-owned cars done Amazon

ZDNET's takeaways

Amazon is expanding its automotive purchasing program.
You tin now bargain utilized cars. The programme is starting successful Los Angeles.
Amazon Auto offers no-haggle, transparent pricing.

Last December, Amazon continued its push into genuinely trading everything by introducing Amazon Auto -- a marketplace to shop for caller cars. The e-commerce giant's automotive offerings are expanding again, arsenic you tin now bargain utilized cars done Amazon.

Buy utilized and certified pre-owned cars

Until now, you could only shop for caller Hyundai vehicles if you wanted to shop done Amazon. Starting today, nan institution explained successful a post, you tin peruse utilized and certified pre-owned cars from Hyundai and different manufacturers, too.

The cars aren't coming straight from Amazon, but from dealerships adjacent you that take to database their vehicles. Everything connected nan buyer's end, including purchasing aliases financing, is handled done Amazon. You tin select by model, trim, assemblage style, seating capacity, miles, color, and features.

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One of nan biggest advantages to buying done Amazon Auto is that it takes a page from Carvana's playbook and offers no-haggle pricing. The institution says it offers a "transparent breakdown" of each your costs aft you make your selections truthful you tin spot precisely what you're paying for without dealing pinch high-pressure salesmen. Amazon Auto besides offers broad conveyance history information.

You won't woody pinch nan dealership until you spell to prime up your car. Amazon says it will moreover thief you find savings and rebates to little costs.

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Any utilized conveyance purchased done Amazon Auto comes pinch a 3-day/300-mile return argumentation and a minimum 30-day/1,000-mile constricted warranty.

Only disposable successful LA for now

I plugged successful a Los Angeles zip codification to return a look astatine pricing.

On nan cars I checked, nan Amazon value was beneath MSRP but precisely nan aforesaid arsenic nan value nan dealership had connected its ain site. I went done astir of nan process of purchasing a utilized 2023 Hyundai IONIQ 6 Limited -- correct until nan past measurement and stopping conscionable short of applying for financing done Amazon. The car was listed astatine $29,898, and nan last value became $33,665 aft fees.

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I'm not judge what that value would beryllium if I purchased done nan dealership, but I ideate I could person haggled a small (depending connected nan vehicle). At slightest for me, nan hassle of skipping nan dealership proceedings is astir apt worthy nan savings, truthful I tin spot really buying a car done Amazon could beryllium tempting. And title among akin companies for illustration Carvana and CarMax is ne'er a bad thing.

For now, nan programme is only disposable successful Los Angeles, but it's expanding to different locations. Amazon's new-car program, which started successful 50 cities successful December, is already disposable successful 130 locations.

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