Hey all, thought I would share just quickly... Just in case.
When I say Desperate I hope it's practically life and death before someone would take this type of offer but anyway.
Friend applied over phone for CarMax for $11k car and got call in less than 10 minutes with approval for $1k down, and income verification and..... hold your breath... 27.99% APR!!
and I thought my Santander rate of 17% back after BK was bad! (and this was part of the Santander group I believe)
Not all Carmax loans are anywhere close to that; however, they do often deal in the same range as Santander/Roadloans.
As a matter of fact, Santander is one of their financing partners, and presumably they gave you the best of the options they received from their lenders.
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Revelate wrote:Not all Carmax loans are anywhere close to that; however, they do often deal in the same range as Santander/Roadloans.
As a matter of fact, Santander is one of their financing partners, and presumably they gave you the best of the options they received from their lenders.
Good Point for sure!!
CarMax uses Citi, Capital One, Roadloans, Santander, and I think for over 7+ years they started offering CarMax loans backed by themselves. They are nice for approvals in minutes, I have never seen until this one that this post is have they ever asked for income, higher deposits, etc. and I have seen them offering in the 7-11% even with some pretty bad credit. The in and out in under 1 hour is my favorite thing about them when buying!
WOW, you sure this loan isn't from the mob? I would find the best beater I could, that I thought would last me 2 to 3 years for the lowest possible price and go with that until my credit score went up to the point where I could get that finance rate sub 10%. I remember long ago(about 7 years ago when my credit score were high 500's low 600's and I was offered 13.9% by capital one, and I thought that was highway robbery. That rate you mentioned is outright extortion(lol). That's beyond desperate, it's insane. I couldn't do it.
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When I was younger, I bought a used Chevy S10 for 12k. Put 3k down and got a 29.7% interest rate. I was only 18 and didn't really know what I was doing. As of today, only 5 months until the repo that followed getting the loan drops off my report!! Lol
Unfortunately in our youth, this is how we learn. 
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