February 28, 2023

Sell Your Car in 3 Easy Steps!

Wait What?

Carmigo’s virtual inspection technology allows you to sell your car from anywhere and get offers from our network of dealerships in a day.

What’s the Easiest Way to Sell Your Car? We’ll Show You

You’re on the Carmigo website. Did you think we were going to say someone else? No. It’s Carmigo.

But seriously, Carmigo’s virtual inspection technology allows you to list your car from anywhere and get trade-in offers from our network of dealerships in a day.

Stick around, and we’ll tell you why.

1. Snap Some Pics

Thanks to our virtual inspection technology, you can inspect and sell your car from anywhere by taking a few pictures. It truly takes less than 10 minutes.

Our virtual inspection tool will guide you through the process of taking pictures of your car from 12 different angles using your phone’s camera. Then our software will scan those photos to create a detailed report for our buyers.

Then you’ll answer a short questionnaire about your vehicle’s features, history, and condition.

Finally, set your minimum price. If you get an offer on the Carmigo marketplace that meets or beats the price, it sells automatically — no negotiating or haggling required.

2. Answer Some Questions

Carmigo’s marketplace brings you multiple offers for your car, so you don’t have to drive from dealership to dealership comparing trade-in offers or, worse, get scammed in a private sale.

The buyers love it because they don’t have to spend their whole day inspecting cars they don’t want. They can search for the specific cars they need for their lot and make an offer.

Buyers from all over our network make offers on our marketplace daily, giving you competitive industry prices instead of one or two local trade-in offers.

3. Set Your Price

The final step is pretty self-explanatory. We’ll help you generate a fair-market estimate for your vehicle, but you set your asking price. If the highest offer comes in at or above that price, your car automatically sells.

Carmigo Will Handle the Rest

You can sit back and wait for the offers to roll in. Once your listing goes live, buyers will have about one business day to make an offer on your car. Each new offer must be higher than the last, and we’ll send you a message each time a new offer comes in.

This is where the Carmigo Marketplace shines. Because our marketplace listings expire after a day, there is daily activity. Buyers don’t want to miss out on a listing, so they check back regularly.

And because the buyers can see their competitors’ offers, a sense of competition over a car can drive more offers.

At the end of the day, if the highest offer meets or beats your price, the car sells.

As soon as the sale goes through, we’ll begin paying off your car loan (if you have one) and transfer the remaining balance to your account.

Our title clerk will ensure the legal transfer of ownership from you (or the bank) to the new buyers.

We’ll handle any additional paperwork, and we’ll even pick it up.

What Our $350 Fee Includes

For our part, Carmigo charged a $350 flat sell fee. We’ll take the $350 out of the sale proceeds if your car sells before transferring the rest to your bank account. And if your car doesn’t sell, you don’t pay.

February 28, 2023

Cybertruck: We Can’t Stop Thinking About It No Matter How Hard We Try

The Cybertruck fits firmly into both the cool and dumb camps. Conceptually, it looks cool. And if it ultimately delivers on all of its performance claims, it will be a very cool feat of engineering.

Is it cool or is it silly? We can't decide.

The Cybertruck fits firmly into both the cool and dumb camps. Conceptually, it looks cool. And if it ultimately delivers on all of its performance claims, it will be a very cool feat of engineering.

But also it’s called the Cybertruck, which seems like something a kid would call their imaginary truck/spaceship. And maybe that’s how they came up with the name.

The Cybertruck Is Silly

From the name to all the little unfortunate clips and soundbytes along the way there are so many absolutely silly Cybertruck stories. But our favorite is probably Musk and co. breaking the Cybertruck’s window at a press conference specifically touting the truck’s indestructibility.

The Cybertruck Is Seriously Cool

But on the other hand, the video showing off all the Space Camper (Space Camper?) features is incredible. It’s basically a tiny house that fits in the bed of the truck.

The 14,000-pound towing capacity and 3,500-pound payload capacity are impressive.

And it’s got the solar panel thing on the bed which is super cool and futuristic.

The Cybertruck Is Kind Of Nerdy

And then there’s the fact that the truck looks like a Nighthawk stealth plane crossed with the warthog truck from the HALO video game franchise.

And the interior is a little weird, but also super cool and sci-fi.

This is truly what happens when you give someone who grew up playing video games unlimited money.

And Then It’s Cool Again

We can laugh about building a real life, commercial production version of a video game truck, but then we see a video of the truck in full off-road mode with its suspension lifted four inches and think, “Dang, that’s cool.”

And Then It’s Silly Again

But then we see testers taking it “offroad” and it’s just them carefully hopping a curb in the Tesla parking lot. That’s a lot of hype for one careful curb hop.

And The Cybertruck Is Behind Schedule

Plus, the truck is something like two years behind production schedule, which this NYT article compares to the previous incident in 2018 when “his determination to build a highly automated assembly line for the Model 3 sedan led to “production hell” and nearly killed the company before he opted for more standard manufacturing practices.”

Most experts blame these delays on Musk’s insistence the Cybertruck body be built from stainless steel, which hasn’t been used on a car since the ill-fated (but popular amongst fellow 80s pop-culture fanatics) DeLorean.

DeLorean went bankrupt almost immediately after launch.

Meanwhile, more modest (but still plenty flashy) EVs like the Rivian (US) and Radar RD6 (China) are hitting the market and picking up early EV market share.

We’d Definitely Still Drive a Cybertruck

The fact of the matter is, we’d drive a Cybertruck — especially if it had one of those Space Campers on it.

Tesla is counting on the same sentiment from the rest of the market. Is this Elon Musk-inspired engineering behemoth wild enough to spark Tesla sales once again? We won’t find out until it hits the market.

Day: February 28, 2023