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They've been shut down in Illinois twice and they're still in legal hot water. Blame interest rates and inventory yadda yadda but they've been moving fast and breaking things too long. Their VP is facing 50+ criminal charges in this state alone.

https://jalopnik.com/carvanas-legal-counsel-ordered-to-appea...

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Meh, looks like a bunch of regulatory capture by existing auto-dealerships.

Failure to transfer title would make me extremely mad as a customer

> “The State of Illinois has charged me because Carvana delivered a car to a customer’s home,” Breaux said in a statement provided by Carvana.

Sounds like they transferred the title but it wasn't "by a dealer", so it was illegal. In addition:

> In a separate filing on May 12, the agency charged Breaux with two counts of Carvana operating as an unlicensed used-vehicle dealer.

You can of course look up the relevant code on Illinois' wonderful online legislation document: https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=0625...

I had the same issue with Beepi. Had a friend who worked there -- I got the sense that complying with a bunch of interstate car sales was rather tricky and they often had issues getting through the state DMVs.

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