When I worked in direct mail and had car dealers for clients, we sent letters and postcards that said this no matter what inventory was like.
Nice to see that it still works. 
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They sent you a letter that said “please come let us buy your vehicle for under market value so we can fleece you out of more money”.
Do yourself a favor and get a quote from carvana, shift, vroom, etc and compare against you buy out.
I have received them before but this stated due to the pandemic blah blah blah.
They said come in so we can give you an estimate, I said let’s do the estimate over the phone just like I plug my figures into vroom and cravana, and she said we have to give you.a fair estimate, I said you can give me a fair estimate over the phone as I’m not wasting my time driving to your dealership, but before all that was said I had them quote me on a couple of cars, basically they were too too too high and I said I’ll just wait it out until a few months before the lease is up.
I got a quote from VROOM and to surprise it was $1100 over my buyout!
As expected. Check Carvana and Shift too, I’m 2k over payoff on my Civic. If anything, you could ask a dealer to match one of them but don’t hold your breath.
Aren’t you glad you didn’t let them buy out your remaining payments?
My standard phrase was “unprecedented demand,” without any further explanation. The goal was just to appeal to the recipient’s greed.
Sometimes I’d drop 5,000 of the “unprecedented demand for your vehicle” letters at the same time I dropped 5,000 that talked about how low the prices were for used cars right now because the dealer is overstocked on trade-ins because new cars were selling so quickly.
It’s something of an art to tailor the right message to the right target audience in order to optimize the response rate.
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We got the usual $6k DALS with $600/mo payments and a $21k residual at a few dealerships. The crazy part was the build date of 02/21, so the car was not old inventory by any stretch. Now on to tint. I’m surprised Honda doesn’t offer a heated steering wheel standard with Touring models.
does the 325 include tax? can I ask which dealer?
If you roll in the drive offs/customer cash = $2,400 then his payments jump to $392.66. Did not see if that included tax and if you want 12K miles a year then the monthly goes up too. So the Honda deal moves to over $400 a month if not tax was included in the monthly.
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I’m taking it that you haven’t shopped for an Accord Hybrid Touring because dealers rarely discount. This was a no trade, no loyalty deal. The LeaseHackr score tells the difference between $2,400 DALS and $0 DALS.
6k DAS? And $600 a month? Those were some of the numbers you got for a Honda??respective payment of over $750 a month???
The numbers I want for that ride would be max $1000 out of pocket and $300 a month on 10k miles
Will never happen but I believe a slight possibility with loyalty and some significant incentives.
But being that it’s a hybrid and not many cars on the lots in that trim it will be leasing at premium numbers
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Yes! This site saved me from the games. Apparently residual values now have a set maximum, so dealers will use lower percentages in calculating the lease price to give themselves room to negotiate while using the published money factor that Honda FS no longer allows them to pad.
That’s what I wanted but no dealer would bite and time wasn’t on my side. To get those numbers, I needed nearly 20% off msrp which is quite hard with Honda. I got close on a 2020 model but the higher money factor killed that deal.
My lease is up at the end of 2021 so figure a left over 2021 would do, 20% off for a honda is pretty much an impossible ordeal like you mentioned so my numbers are just too amusing to even consider. I have the time since I’m going to start looking this summer for an early lease swap. I think I would go for an EX -L hybrid. The best lease I saw on that was I believe just under 1000 out of pocket and about $300 a month.
I did consider a touring insight but the numbers on that car are just nasty when it comes to leasing plus the touring on the insight doesn’t have every single feature the accord touring has. If anything I may jump to a competitor and see what they have to offer buy having the loyalty does work a tad in my favor since this would be my third honda.
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ES300 Hybrids lease extremely well at the end of the year. It’s not uncommon to see 20% off in November for Lexus as they try to push 2022 models in December
Press F for Ronbo.
You are right.
Can share the dealer name and your agent. I am lazy. 