2016 Ram 3500 Crash / Diminished Value Result

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:

As for " Why would you ask the body shop /repair shop not to report an accident if you aren't trying to hide the fact from future buyers? Makes no sense", why the heck should they get paid the report my vehicle? If anyone is going to make money on reporting it then that will be me! As I said, I told the guy that bought my truck about all the repairs done to it and showed (and gave) him every repair order on the truck. I keep a file and everything that is done to one of my vehicles (owed vehicles).
Don

So out of curiosity, I did a search on how carfax works, and what incentives shops have to report to them. I found absolutely nothing indicating there is any incentive for a shop to report to them, let alone get paid for it. In fact, most of what I found indicated a lot goes unreported to them because there is no incentive!

Sorry if i missed it. But can you support that claim?

So let's just say you are correct and a shop gets a few bucks to report a repair. What do you care? They aren't charging you anything differently because of it. Besides, if you go in with the attitude of having them agreeing to not report a repair simply to keep them from receiving an incentive, you're probably not going to be happy with the repair!

Again, could you point to where the shops make money reporting a repair? I'd like to understand how/why I missed it if I did.