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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Order is this:

1. Car dealer who sells Mazdas
2. Other new car dealer
3. Carmax
4. Used car dealer

As you go down the list, the chance of problems goes up, but the price goes down. [/quote]

NP. I’ve been looking for a high end, late model car. Your list is right on based on my research. CarMax has significantly lower prices than the dealers I’ve compared them to. I was close to buying a specific car from them but found it had been in an accident when I pulled the Carfax report. 
Still looking. [/quote]

The reason it's like this is that a new car dealer doesn't want to put their reputation at risk over a bad used car. They're quick to send a questionable trade-in off to the auction instead of keeping it on the lot. Also if they want to sell it as Certified, it needs to pass a long list of requiremetns, and I thikn that includes accident-free.

User car dealers get nearly all their supply from the auctions, and care little about reputation. Usually their business is selling to people with poor credit so the buyer cares more about payment terms than anything else.

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