I am getting a lease for an X3 M40i at one of the norcal dealers. I have applied for the corporate sales program online. Have been verified and received certificate email and number. I forwarded the email to the dealer but they replied that this discount won’t work on this loaner vehicle. According to them, it just won’t go through their system when they put this in.
I’m pretty sure I read all the terms and conditions correctly – the car is a 2019 X3 M40i loaner, with ~ 4300 miles on it, which is within the 5000 miles rule. I am a first time BMW buyer, never owned a BMW before, so this won’t conflict with the loyalty incentives. I’m only receiving $3500 incentives from the dealer, which should be $750 conquest + $2750 lease credit from the road home sales. Have anyone tried using the corporate sales incentives recently? Does it conflict with the road home sales event? Any ideas on how this incentive really works and how should it be inputted into the system?
However the dealer must have punched the car as a certain “type” for the car to qualify for corporate rebate - if they haven’t then it won’t qualify - this rebate must go on contract so they’re not playing games (they don’t get to keep it).
Thanks for the info! It seems like a technical issue? Can you share more details on how this works? The dealer just need to update a “type” for the car, what are the types they should fill into the system?
It’s not a technical issue and unfortunately there’s no way to reverse it - once it’s been punched in a certain way it’s already been reported to BMW in that manner and so there’s no way to undo it.
Following up on this thread. Went to the dealers yesterday, finally figured out what tricks they are playing…
The dealer still won’t apply the corporate sales $500 incentives to me. I kept arguing with them and finally they printed out the instructions document from BMWFS and trying to sell me that a loaner car = a pre-owned car which isn’t eligible for the discount. Clearly that does not make sense. A loaner is a loaner and a pre-own is a pre-own. BMWFS even had two different sections for them in the instructions document so I didn’t buy that.
Here’s more drama… The instructions document has a few pages. I tried to dig for more details in the following pages and I saw this: “the $500 incentives for loaner vehicles won’t show up as an Type G or S option in the system. Dealership should only choose Type 1 or 3 and change other numbers in the system to match the incentives”. And clearly this is it! The dealers kept trying to persuade me that they can apply a Type G or S for a new car, but not a loaner car so the incentives does not apply. But that’s not the case. What they really should do is pick from Type 1 or 3 and then change the numbers themselves!
I was so close to the step by step instructions on how to change the numbers on the loaner vehicle, until their manager suddenly took that document back and said “Hey you know this doc is kinda confidential so I can’t show you anymore details”. Well, I felt they weren’t trustworth at all, so I just left and found a better deal elsewhere and they had no issue applying this $500 incentives.
So, lessons learned, when in doubt, ask them to contact BMWFS and print out related docs for your review. Trust yourself, you know how to read better than them! And for a reference, Type G and S are more like corporate sales that they can pick in their system, which has the $500 incentives automatically applied. Type 1 and 3 are like individual customer sales. It’s the only thing they can choose for a loaner type, but there are ways they can make the incentives apply as well. Not sure if they will actually lose money on doing that. But since it’s an official incentives from BMWFS, there’s no reason you shouldn’t fight for it.
