You can’t sell a car to Vroom anymore: the company announced on January 22, 2024 that it had halted all purchases and sales of used vehicles, and its website now opens on that notice. Its CarStory unit runs a separate dealer-network offer, and which other buyer fits depends on whether your car runs, its age and its title.
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Vroom’s home page reads, as of October 25, 2026: “We announced on January 22, 2024 that Vroom has halted all purchases and sales of used vehicles.” Below that sit support numbers for existing customers and a link to CarStory. There is no offer form.
The details are in Vroom’s press release and the Form 8-K it filed with the SEC to go with it. Its board approved the plan on January 19, 2024. Under it, Vroom was “suspending transactions through vroom.com,” selling its remaining cars through wholesale channels, “halting purchases of additional vehicles,” and cutting about 800 jobs, and it expected the plan to be substantially in place by March 31, 2024. Its chief executive said Vroom had been unable to raise the capital it needed.
Nothing since has reversed it. Vroom’s results release of August 4, 2026 describes the car business in the past tense: before January 2024 Vroom “operated an end-to-end ecommerce platform to buy and sell used vehicles,” and it has since “discontinued its ecommerce operations and used vehicle dealership business.”
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Vroom, Inc. carries on as a public company; its investor site says the stock still trades on Nasdaq as VRM. It owns the two businesses its notice says will continue: United Auto Credit Corporation (UACC), a lender that finances cars through dealers, and CarStory, which provides analytics and digital services to car retailers. The vroom.com notice points shoppers to CarStory’s listings of “over 4 million new and used cars from dealers near you.”
CarStory also has a page for sellers, Sell Us Your Car. It describes a dealer network, not a Vroom purchase: CarStory says it works with “our network of certified dealers” to price the car, and you then schedule a time “at your home or the dealership” for an inspection before you are paid. Its FAQ says pickup or drop-off depends on what the offer page shows, and that you are welcome to discuss the price if you have information that could affect the car’s value. It is the only selling route tied to Vroom that we found; treat it as one dealer offer to compare with others.
The right buyer depends on what you are selling. Start from the row that fits your car:
| Your car | Where to start | Our guide |
|---|---|---|
| Clean, newer, runs well | Online buyers and dealer groups, a dealer appraisal, or a private sale | Carvana, CarMax, Driveway, AutoNation, KBB Instant Cash Offer |
| Older or high-mileage | Check each buyer’s rules on age and mileage; junk and as-is buyers for the oldest | Getting rid of an old car |
| Doesn’t run | Buyers who tow it away | Selling a car that doesn’t run |
| Damaged, totaled or a salvage title | As-is buyers and branded-title specialists | Damaged, totaled, salvage or rebuilt |
| No title | Replace the title, or a buyer that takes cars without one | Selling without a title, junking without a title |
| Leased | A lease buyout first, by you or a dealer | Selling a leased car |
Several companies still buy this kind of car online or at a store. Driveway, the online arm of the Lithia Motors dealer group, makes an offer that is valid for 7 days and collects the car anywhere in the U.S., Alaska and Hawaii included. AutoNation’s offer lasts 7 days or 500 miles, but the sale is completed at an AutoNation store, and those were in 20 states at the end of 2025. Our guides to each company in the table set out their rules.
Get your offers inside the same week, since the Driveway and AutoNation numbers both expire after 7 days, and price a private sale as well. Our dealership guide explains, in Kelley Blue Book’s words, why a private buyer usually pays more than a dealer. Our own as-is offer fits best when these buyers say no.
Online buyers draw lines here. Driveway’s list of cars it may not purchase includes cars more than 20 years old, cars with high total or annual mileage, and cars its valets can’t drive safely. AutoNation’s pages don’t address non-runners and expect the car at a store. Our pages answer the same questions for Carvana (older cars, cars that don’t run) and CarMax (older cars, cars that don’t run).
For these cars, as-is and junk buyers who tow are usually the ones still bidding. Our guides on selling a car that doesn’t run, getting rid of an old car and what a junk car is worth show what they pay. Our buying partner describes itself as buying cars in any condition, older and non-running ones included: get a free offer, take up to a week to accept it, and payment is a check from the pickup driver once the car matches what you told them.
Damaged or salvage. Driveway may turn down a car with a major damage history or a title problem. Our guides to damaged, totaled and salvage or rebuilt cars cover who buys them. Our buying partner says salvage, rebuilt and missing-title cars may still qualify in many states.
No title. AutoNation asks sellers to bring the title, and one of its store pages says you need to get one before selling to a dealership. A duplicate from your state’s motor vehicle agency is the usual fix. When that isn’t possible, our guide to selling without a title lists who may still buy, and our partner’s help page says it has “many buyers that buy cars without a title.”
Leased. The leasing company owns the car, so a buyout comes first. Driveway says it will work with you where the leasing company allows an early buyout, and AutoNation says it can do lease buyouts with approved companies. Our guide to selling a leased car runs the numbers.
If you bought your car from Vroom and now want to sell it, make sure the title is in your name first, because most buyers will ask for it. Vroom’s customer FAQ, now hosted by CarStory, says Vroom is “no longer able to provide title documents” in registration-suspension cases. For missing title paperwork it asks owners to email support@vroom.com with the registered buyer’s name and VIN. If the car was financed, it says to contact “the lender listed on your bill of sale” for title information.
Once the title is settled, the car sells like any other. If it can’t be settled, our guide to selling a car without a title explains the routes state by state.
No. Vroom halted all purchases in January 2024, and vroom.com now opens on the wind-down notice instead of an offer form. The closest thing tied to Vroom is CarStory’s Sell Us Your Car page, which prices cars through a network of dealers.
Its car-buying and car-selling business did. Vroom, Inc. is still a public company that owns the lender UACC and CarStory, and its August 2026 results describe the used-car business as discontinued.
No. Vroom stopped selling cars along with buying them, so there is nothing to trade toward. Driveway and AutoNation both apply their offers to a car you buy from them, and both also buy cars from people who aren’t buying.
Companies that make an offer online and then collect the car or take it at a store: Carvana, CarMax, Driveway, and dealer groups such as AutoNation. Their rules on age, mileage, condition and title differ, and our guides to each company spell them out.