It’s a free market. If the agent wants to charge you 50% fee and you agree, that’s on you.
Just think it’s funny these folks who are paying 1-2k broker fees for 12 month leases on 3-4 yr old taycans.
The percentage of that fee in relation to the total payments for the car is quite a bit worse than typical arrangements but again people are free to charge what they can and let suckers pay for overpriced cars
He didn’t pay the fee. Seller pays.
Does that mean that PFS is harder to qualify than Mercedes FS or Audi FS for example?
It isn’t clear to me why this isn’t registering.
Unless the point is to keep arguing.
PFS has the strictest requirements. If you are not scoring a 720+ with comparable auto loan history, don’t even waste your time with a lease.
What are you on about? Pay whatever fee you want, idc. Doesn’t mean it’s intelligent to do so. It’s pretty stupid to pay a 2k broker fee on a 12 month Taycan lease but you do you.
It all depends if the broker provided value or not. If I can get under $500 effective taycan lease? Broker deserves a nice check. If a broker is asking for 5k DAS and another 1k a month for a used base taycan? They can drive that taycan into a snowy offramp
Sure in theory but if these deals are happening it would generally indicate that these cars aren’t super desirable and deals outside of a broker are also possible .
To theoretically exaggerate this , like yes if a broker could get you a gt3 at a 50% discount you would of course be willing to pay them a massive massive broker fee , but obviously this would not occur.
So while I use a broker and generally think they provide value there is of course a limit to this and I don’t think there are many deals where a broker is providing multiple thousands of dollars in marginal value.
Exactly, and now wondering if buying a used Taycan at about 70K (near zero down) and keep for 18-24 months would I be ahead when traded in vs lease with effective payment of about $1200 a month? Given depreciation I’m guessing probably not.
Thank you all of you for this thread. Cleared my mind after I was brainwashed here, reading every marketplace post and thinking the only way was the broker way…
And thank you OP for reading the deals better than me: The first month should be paid in DAS. I always calculated 1 month extra then… Now everything seems cheaper 
Some brokers have special relationships with dealers where they get preferred pricing in exchange for volume and good reviews. Other brokers take publicly available deals and list them on LH. The problem is that many customers don’t know which is which. Which ties back in auto brokers and their lack of transparency.