My first lease deal I’ve ever done. I was aiming for a 10% discount overall but I never got there with any dealers I talked to. 2.5% pre-incentives was pretty pitiful but not every dealer wanted to honor the corporate discount. It was also starting to get super hard to find a car still available. Fields BMW (Winter Park AND Orlando) for example have 0 m340i’s at the time of posting. I’m sure I could have got it lower with MSDs.
Certainly not the best deal, but I don’t feel that it’s terrible, especially for Florida and doing this on my own.
Thanks to everyone for everything I’ve learned here! Would take any advice on how to do better next time around! This was about $300/mo lower than their first offer.
Thanks for the update on the calculator. I actually thought I did reach out to you a few weeks ago and you never responded, I just checked that tab and I realized I filled out your form and never actually hit the submit button! My bad! Would love to work with you next time for sure.
Enjoy the car and as I tell new clients that reach out… we should be thankful that we can afford car payments like these, but next time we will save some money!
@osiq Yeah I went to about 7 dealerships total looking for a good offer. I was ready to buy a car if they’d work with me. I guess seeing a pretax number under $700 just made me happy enough to not consider I was getting hosed. I probably should have used emailing more.
I was looking at a C43 AMG at a dealer in Orlando, their first offer was 10k down with $1209 a month payment, I wish I took a picture of that one. Car was $73k MSRP. They managed to drop it to 0 down $1109 after I plugged those numbers in a calculator for them. Manager told me I needed to dream a little. At another Mercedes dealer the lowest I could get the same car (dealer trade) with 0 down was $873.
I really should have used Bacon, and that’s completely my fault, lol. I emailed a couple other brokers with no response, so I thought that was typical. I didn’t even think to check that I submitted his form. I have so many tabs open from doing research that it just got lost.
I’m young so I’ll learn, I can afford it, and I absolutely love the car. I knew I wasn’t posting a great deal but I wanted to see what else I could have done better. Plus if anyone else see’s this, maybe they’ll have more information to know they can do a lot better than I did.
I have a few pictures of some of these absolutely horrible deals I got offered if anyone is interested in a laugh.
what…