S600 Update – Not Accidentally Sold After All…..

…..but still not mine.  After days of busting chops, CarMax tells me the 2008 Mercedes S600 V-12 was not accidentally sold in Ohio, but was deemed not sellable to customers due to a really bad transmission.  I found it on the Dulles lot last week.  I have asked a number of times why CarMax went ahead and completed a Virginia State inspection (see sticker below) after the car was deemed not sellable, but no response.  They tell me it’s going to a wholeseller.  Asked for documentation confirming it went, but no response.  Until I verify that, I’m still suspicious this car is going to a CarMax insider.  It was a bargain at $22,998 and 44,000 miles.  They refunded my $899 transfer fee and have offered to ship another car from anywhere for free.  No S600 has been that cheap – and there have only been three – in the two years I’ve tracked CarMax.  Will be hard to match.  And if I see this S600 sold to an individual and not a wholeseller I’m going to flip out on them!  And I will know where this car goes.