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Actually, I don't think it violates the current rules for Carfax.
In the old days, you bought an "open" carfax account for one fee. Something like $30.
For that $30, you could run unlimited carfaxes. You could see the disaster that could be. Someone could go on line, give their account, and have hundreds or thousands of carfaxes run for $30. That would drive their revenue down to something like 10 cents per carfax run.
Carfax during those years did try to stop the sharing - they'd monitor accounts for "excessive use," cancel accounts, etc.
That was a ton of work for them, and not always effective.
So a few year ago they completely changed their biz model. No more "unlimited" carfaxes. Now you pay a set amount for a set number of searches. And, it's expensive (something like $30 for 5 searches?).
With that biz model, the concern about "sharing" is gone. You've paid (a lot) for your one or 5 searches. I don't think they really care anymore what you do with those few searches that have been "paid in full" for.
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