My brother tried to buy a car from them and every car he started the process of buying someone "bought" out from under him. Additionally, ever discount or interest rate he was approved for would constantly change and would keep up getting denied after he started paperwork for the one he managed to get ahold of. They will give you the run around on everything, they told him he'd need a set amount of money as a down payment which he had and then suddenly it wasnt enough.

> have a masters

I hope you are not teaching math.

> That high salary is almost twice the highest paid teacher. “Average” is highly skewed because of that.

Look again.

> Average annual salary was $89,910 and median salary was $94,472

Lol it's Philly. I drove it on the expired temp until the permanent one came. Wouldn't recommend this outside the city though!

Do you remember what time it was? I could look up the WESA schedule to find the program.

So what happened? Could you renew the temporary plate or did you have to “park your car”? If not, how did you prevent that?

I wish I did. The interviewer was a woman, and she had two guests, both men. I checked the site, and there was an article listed, but the interviewer was a man. This was today, and I am not sure how long it takes WESA to archive their shows.

EDIT: u/GSDBUZZ u/xxdropdeadlexi I tried looking the NPR schedule over for yesterday. I tend to listen while I'm working and don't really track the shows. I did two webinars yesterday. So, my listening time was 10AM - 1PM and 3PM - 5PM. I am so sorry I couldn't find the show!

I bought a very nice Audi A6 sedan from them in 2018. Very good transaction and the car was exactly as advertised (and a dream to drive). No problems whatsoever back then.

I would really like to hear that. Do you remember what NPR program the interview was on? I could look it up.

Yea that’s the location. They were suspended from issuing plates but I’m not sure what that means because they continued to sell cars and I haven’t seen any more news about them since November in PA, so hoping the issues are possibly resolved. Yea them going under I don’t have a clue what to expect from that.

I bought one from them in Philly during the first summer of the pandemic. The process was great, customer service was super helpful, and overall much better than a dealership. We also used our own bank for financing because the rates were way better, but nobody from carvana tried to push us into their financing.

Buuuuuuut all that being said, we also had our permanent license plate super delayed (Well last the date of the temp). Carvana blamed it it on the state which made sense, back in 2020 it felt like the world was falling apart. But in hindsight, we were one of the many many people who didn't have their titles processed by carvana in time.

This SD's punctuation is horrible.

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True!

Same in Cumberland. Just manure.

I think the implication is that they still have their communications person, but then they also hired this PR firm, so kind of an added cost whereas internal rearrangement or something could have been much less expensive.

Maybe they fired the communications person you’re speaking of when they hired this firm?

The titling issues are a nation-wide problem. There's a YouTube channel called "Lehto's Law," where a Michigan-based lawyer goes over the legal issues of cases that make the news, and he covers Carvana issues fairly frequently. Usually issues with titling resulting in Attorneys General getting involved.

Carvana has also had some financial issues lately. The risk of the company falling apart would scare me away, as you wouldn't necessarily have anyone to go after if you had issues.

Don't know which Carvana you're looking at, but the one in Bridgeville, PA (Pittsburgh suburb) got suspended by the state back in Nov. '22.

That high salary is almost twice the highest paid teacher. “Average” is highly skewed because of that. I believe the starting salary is 47k. I work in the district… 20+ years. Our salary schedule taps out at 116k. It sounds like a lot but I’m in my mid to late 40s, have a masters plus 30 credits and can’t move to other districts since most don’t honor your years of service. There are people I know in “marketing” in there 20s that make as much as I do with bonuses. I’m not complaining but the community brags about the great education, but many teachers can’t afford to live in the district.

I'm glad PA is taking this step. I heard an interesting discussion on NPR today. It's not up on the site yet, I'll look for it tomorrow. I really don't want to misquote what the expert said about some of the chemicals.

I don't think it's the same smell but I will log it just in case.

Cue outraged conservatives who can't believe Shapiro would waste taxpayer funds on water testing after Norfolk Southern already told us it's fine.

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Thanks. That would make it difficult.

CBSD has become an embarrassement of a shit show! We live in a neighboring district and the garbage happening in CB is a constant reminder that local elections matter!

Banning books about the holocaust? Do you mean all books about it? I remember hearing about a teacher having to remove a poster that had to do with the holocaust but I missed the books. That’s fucking terrifying

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