Cloak of anonymity?
Anything that I say on here I would say just the same in person. Just saying.
As for the Hackr vs Broker thing: Anyone can do what a broker does as long as you’re willing to undertake a sometimes not so steep learning curve, are good at math (or using a calculator), and are good at social engineering or at least being persuasive.
@senwia Yes I know what running a huge forum is. I know exactly what crowd sourcing is. But if anyone here thinks that it is right to tell people to leave the LH site to find information is not correct from the point of view from the admins (owner of the site). The point is that people should not want to go elsewhere for anything. New people should be able to find basic information easily. Which in the end all the back and forth here is about knowing what acronyms mean. If I wanted to I could have easily started a new thread in the FAQ with the information. But being new the site I didn’t want to have any mistakes in it.
Making a site like this better is what it is all about. You want more and more people to come here, which will then attract new and more Brokers who pay their monthly fees to keep the site running. Simple things can be done to attract more people. I have some friends who are in the younger generation who would have stopped already with the forum. Yes they are the type of people who want to be spoon fed. If the admins/leasehackrs don’t want to give as much information to users, then the brokers should do it on their own to keep the customers going.
My inital comment was never to start a $hitstorm, but it is funny to see that people will not open their eyes. While I am a new member to LH this is not my first rodeo with forums.
OK - I think your point has been made. @Michael and @littleviolette (who are the owners) will review this thread and take your feedback into consideration.
No one should take any offense to anything that was in my comment.
I don’t want to be a hackr or a broker. My point of coming to this site was to find a great deal on the car that I wanted. Otherwise we would not be here right now. I found my deal, I could have just signed off and said good buy for a couple years.
I thought to myself “Hey, this site is pretty cool, but I wish that there was this information, would have made it much better for me BEING A CUSTOMER (to a broker)” Let me post a comment.
So I did and here we are with a lot of negative comments.
Crowdsourcing is about bringing different things into the mix, and again, all this is basically about the explanation of acronyms.
In order to post, can it be forced that new users must read all of the topics in the “Leasing 101” section? Obviously, for OP, this wasn’t enough.
PS, it mentions going to “Leasing 101” before going to FAQ to clear up any questions.
Then your initial post should be edited to a one line statement suggesting that you’d like more transparency into the acronyms used in leases. Instead here it looks like you’re complaning about a forum that doesn’t charge you for information. A quick Google search could’ve helped you with one of your questions.
Do you know, I did look at the Leasing 101.
Can you show me there where it talks about MSDS or what DAS means?
OP has had ample opportunity to make his case. Now there’s no need to beat a dead horse or go around in circles.