You asked about fees and were immediately answered.
Let’s break this down to questions that should be easily answered if you did your homework.
What pre-incentive discount was required to get to the previous $150/mo payments? What lease programs differed between then and now? What pre-incentive discount was required to get you to the $250/mo payment that you wanted based on the programs that applied to you? What was your target deal that you established prior to talking to the dealer? Why did you depart from that target deal?
At the end of the day $50 or $60 per month ($1,800) isn’t significant enough to deal with the extra steps to “Hack”. I work 55 hours a week, have two kids, a wife, and a crazy fuc*ing mother in law and getting this done and over with was worth the price paid.
Ultimately I’ve discovered that my time is worth more spent elsewhere, not hacking a lease.
I get paid to do my job and the dealership and salesperson got paid to do theirs.
Nothing wrong with prioritizing other things in life over diving into this. In the future, utilizing a lease broker to do the work for you may be something to consider. Spending $500 to save $2000+ isn’t a bad ROI and saves you the hassle of doing it yourself.
This is why our recommendation is always to make your own deal given the inputs and your research, email it to every dealer in your region that has the vehicle you want in stock, and sign when one accepts.
I guarantee that you spent way more time working with one dealer on this deal and flailing about than it would have taken to send the virtual same email out to a handful of Nissan dealers.
I guess I value my own money more than most, but given similar constraints to you I would be happy to spend a couple hours to save thousands
Maybe we should include that into the “basic questions” canned response for gathering MF/RV @trusted_hackrs ? I feel like we say it in basically every thread.
I’ll take a crack at putting together another canned response. I’ve been meaning to do a more thorough “why asking if a deal is a good deal means you haven’t done your homework” post.
If LH gets to 100-200 level its too mainstream…and we can kiss our hacking goodbye😁
Personally I absolutely CHERISHED the guy I saw signing on a 8 series vert at the dealership when I picked up my last car there. I absolutely knew he, and 10 others, paved the way for me.
