topic CARMAX Lending... If you are desperate in Auto Loans

CARMAX Lending... If you are desperate

Creditaddict — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:14:28 GMT

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)

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dobirdsmommy — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:50:20 GMT

Wow makes my Santander at 19 look beautiful and newly Chase at 9 look amazing.

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Revelate — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:47:43 GMT

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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Creditaddict — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:25:22 GMT

@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!

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Anonymous — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:40:44 GMT

Crap, I have never had a loan more than 5% and even that is high, and that is with questionable items on my CR. Infact before my BK, I had a carmax loan at 2.9% for 60 months. I beleive that was thru santander.

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GetAHouse — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:31:14 GMT

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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webhopper — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:16:35 GMT

That's crazy! Who would get a rate like that?

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Tischer712 — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:32:01 GMT

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

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Anonymous — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:43:46 GMT

Wow !! I was just two weeks out of BK back in 2/2007 and got 12.5% from WFDS. Just finished paying that one off and traded last month for 2013 Chrysler T&C and got 2.5% from TD (Formerly Chrysler Financial).

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Shogun — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:48:44 GMT

@Tischer712 wrote:
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.