Now I remember lol
That explains a lot, but I wonder if his customers are aware:
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If you would retain Tomi’s services, maybe you’d have your car already.
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It seems like that was a good move to jump to social media for him. He seems to be pretty successful at it.
Clearly this forum is NOT his target audience, so why waste time here?
How do you explain his success if he is so incompetent at what he is offering? Wouldn’t he get crushed on social if he was a sham?
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Tomi is selling fear rather than his negotiation skills or superior pricing. I don’t watch his livestreams, but every video is him arguing with a salesperson/manager about how they are trying to screw him/the customer over on pricing, markups, accessory packages, etc. The message is clear that if the dealer is acting like this towards a “professional”, how will an amateur like yourself fair? The fear and emotion it elicits are why it is popular on social media. Specific deals and X% discounts and $X/mo payments are generally not what get him trending.
That is why this forum doesn’t like him. It is a crowd that is not afraid to get aggressive with dealers. Tomi is selling his product to people who are afraid the dealer is going to rip them off, which is why it doesn’t matter that the $1000 fee isn’t tied to specific, upfront pricing.
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We’ll just move on to other dealer who’s willing to deal 
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not when you can block people and delete comments lol. Social media is so fake when it comes to businesses cause any competent business knows how to be amazing on social media.
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Yeah the folks on CarEdge did the same thing. The father used to be GSM at a Honda/Acura showroom (at least that’s what I think he claimed). So they’d tell people all the tricks sales/dealers play to maximize their margins and make sure to win.
While these stories are based on real life and generally true, the point was to make the viewers (customers) feel like they had zero shot combating these sales tactics.
How could someone off the street take on a massive organization and sales motion that has been refined for almost a century and extracts maximum margin from every transaction? Think of how painful it is to negotiate a car! The only way to avoid the pain was to pay Zach and his team some money to negotiate on the customer’s behalf.
What kind of confuses me is why the folks that made Visor.Vin would partner with Delivrd. I feel like most people here actually like Visor’s approach and access to data. Why they’d partner with unlicensed “not a broker even though they basically are a broker” seems to harm their reputation. If you like a car you see on Visor.vin, then click a button and folks on Delivrd will negotiate for you! For only $1,000!
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because money! duh.
Imo he is just the modern era Tom McParland. Kudos to him for monetizing TikTok videos that capture the standard brain-dead sales interactions most of us have had to grind through to get to a coherent lease worksheet. I’m sure LH collectively could have put out thousands of videos of users teaching sales guys about the 18 month Nissan programs years ago.
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He picked up all the viewers that ran away from CarEdge, the channel the has re-branded so many times I can’t remember what it was called in the beginning.
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He charges before he “dlvrs”. That’s not going to ever get you the best deal. It’s going to get you the easiest deal at a mediocre price.
I’m curious on his return policy for that grand if you don’t accept his deal ha
This is the closest I see about a return policy, I don’t know how they do this though haha…
They charge 1k, 2.5 and 5k for different experiences.
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You’ll never see a dime of that money back. I’m sure their terms are structured in a way that once they’ve sunk any time into the deal they’ve earned their fee regardless of whether you say yes or no.
Reputationally they will want to keep customers happy and good reviews flowing, so they do have an interest in securing decent enough deals to ensure that.
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Half of the people on tiktok are paste eating idiots - sincerely a paste eating tiktok user.
A good chunk of america is too dumb to fact check an AI generated video, you really think they’d spend the time?
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Is that really a realistic target-do you see what the brokers post in trophy garage? If I were bringing a multi-store owner hundreds of deals, I’d certainly expect a 760 payment to die for. Or maybe a Hummer EV at $300/month.
Maybe I just suck, but I’ve had plenty of trouble beating broker deals, particularly on mainstream brands. I also regularly see loaners that would take a significant effort to match or beat. While I’ve been lucky enough to beat them, I don’t find it as easy as you’re saying.
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There is clearly a market for this and look at all the lovely sentiments. Sometimes people would rather pay for someone else to do the work, this is nothing new. It’s all entertainment, even the mundane act of buying a car.
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Def a smart business model and scalable as they don’t actually have to get the best pricing. Just match buyers with sellers and no Bs in between.
As an actual broker you only collect money when you make the sale. So we’re competing with other brokers and the client shopping our numbers. That at least ensures that my fee is worth it to the customer.
Wonder how much they paid for that article to be published. Great marketing good for them. I don’t believe that he calls dealers all day looking for deals. That’s a huge waste of time, but drama sells content so again smart move. They have asked me in the past for Toyota deals so they know leasehackr is where you can find the best pricing in one place.
@michael and @littleviolette maybe we should have an option here to charge people $1-2k upfront and you just send half to the broker that you know is going to get the customer a great deal here. Could def be a way to generate more $ for the site, since we know there’s a market for this type of thing…
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This is interesting. But isn’t this sort of what PND was supposed to be?
Somewhat similar but less personalized. And they only have so much to choose from and many regions unrepresented. I never did it bc it seemed more like a hassle than it was worth, also with inventory and rates constantly changing it’s a lot to update.
the overwhelming majority of brokers on this site collect their fees upfront once they sell their phone number, not when the sale is made, though…
Best way to do it. You don’t have to hassle the dealer if it was delivered yet or chase down the client for payment.
As long as the price and vehicle is exactly what was agreed on there’s rarely an issue with that payment model. Most of my dealers don’t even take a deposit for my customers so they’re fine with paying before they receive the car and they know what they’re getting unlike the articles business model