Long story short, signed an ally lease agreement 3 years ago, on my paperwork it clearly states N/A for disposition fee.
In a miracle of miracles I was able to transfer the lease to my brother in law about 2 years back.
When he turned the vehicle in recently, Ally came back asking for their $395 disposition fee. They provided him a signed copy of the lease form - which TO ME is clearly not my signature. I sent him my signed carbon copy of the lease form which says “N/A” for disposition fee and obviously has my signature on it.
Now, I’m pretty comfortable saying that I never agreed to update the paperwork because although it was 3 years ago, all my communication was in text, and when I signed the agreement I literally did it on the hood of the car in my driveway since the dealer was 250 miles away. I went through my texts and there was no “hey we need to fix a paperwork problem” or anything like that.
Now the comical thing is, Ally has TWO copies of the original lease agreement (they accidentally sent to my BIL) from the same date with TWO slightly different signatures on them.
That is the only change on the entire form - I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that it was a dealer glitch (which seems to happen on about 1/3 of the cars I’ve bought) but thank god the update wasn’t a change to residual value or something like that.
Deal came from here but AFAIK the seller has left and the dealership itself has changed hands. I am not looking for recourse but just sharing a WTF moment.