Carvana Review 2026 (Highest Online Offer?)

About 3 to 10 days on average, from the offer to the appointment where you’re paid, and the same day in some locations. Before you can book, Carvana checks the documents you upload, which can take 24 to 48 business hours.

Yes. Carvana pays your lender directly when it buys the car and pays you whatever is left over. If you owe more than the offer, you pay Carvana the difference, by certified check or, where Carvana offers it, by card.

Keep making your loan payments until the lender shows the loan paid off, because the lender can take several days to process the payoff. Any overpayment comes back to you.

Yes, if the car matches what you described and you finish the sale within the 7 days the offer lasts. If the appointment finds something different, Carvana makes you a new offer.

Book the appointment as soon as you accept, because an offer that runs out has to be quoted again, and the new one can be lower. Sellers report document checks and missed pickups using up the seven days.

By a printed check handed to you at the appointment, or a direct deposit Carvana starts there, which takes one to five business days to arrive. Deposit the check with a teller at your bank: Carvana’s checks have to be deposited in person.

You upload photos of your ID, title and odometer, then bring your ID, every key and, if you own the car outright, the title to the appointment. Your registration doesn’t need to be current, except in California. With a loan, Carvana asks for a 10-day payoff statement from your lender.

Yes, until the car changes hands at the appointment. After that the sale is final, and Carvana won’t give the car back.

Pickup fees ran from $0 to $600 in our test offers, depending on where you live, and Carvana shows yours when you schedule. If you drop off at a vending machine instead, there’s no fee.

Take out your belongings and bring every key and accessory. Detailing won’t raise the offer, because it’s set online from your answers, and the appointment only checks that the car matches them.

Yes, if the lease is with one of the 13 leasing companies Carvana buys from, such as Toyota Financial Services, Lexus, Subaru or Chase, and has more than 30 days left. Enter the lease on the quote form, and Carvana gives you the next steps with your offer.

Drop-off is open to every seller, at a Carvana location or vending machine, but pickup is offered only in some areas. Plan for the drive: some sellers learned only at the last step that their area had no pickup, then drove more than 100 miles to drop the car off.

Yes, if you’re also buying from Carvana. In most states you then pay sales tax only on the difference between the new car’s price and your trade-in’s value, but not in California, Hawaii, Virginia or DC; Ohio gives the break only on new cars, not a used one from Carvana, and Oklahoma’s covers only part of the tax. Carvana keeps the trade-in even if you return the car you bought.

No. You can just sell without buying anything. The process and the price are the same either way.

You upload your documents, and once Carvana approves them, you pick a time for pickup or drop-off.

Yes. Carvana is a publicly traded company that buys thousands of cars a week from people selling them, and it has an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau.