SIGNED: Chevy Blazer EV 2LT | $5,745 One Pay | 24mo / 10k | Idaho

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Certainly not a high-water-mark for Blazer EV leases, but it fit my parameters.

Was looking for an “appliance-level” safe (compared to the 30-year-old vehicle it’s replacing) AWD EV. We live in a cheap-electricity / expensive gas area, and with the gas-guzzler I’m replacing, I did the math and realized that if I could get a one-pay 24-month lease under $5,800, I’d essentially be getting a “free” car in gas savings. (Not counting insurance etc.)

Targeted the Blazer for extra space/room over the Equinox.

I emailed offers to a dozen dealers from Portland, Oregon, to Missoula, MT.

I had access to Healthcare, Lease Conquest, Conquest and Supplier rebates. I got a lot of wildly different answers about how they could or couldn’t stack.

In the end, I got offers from 2-dealers in the greater Seattle metro for around $5,600 (one just under, the other just over).

I was ready to buy a ticket to fly over and pick one of them up, but then reached out to my local’est (Lewiston, ID) Chevy dealer one last time (who’d previously told me the best they could do was $9,500) - and asked if they wanted to match it.

After a lot of hemming and hawwing about how they don’t really have the volume to offer disocunts, but maybe they could do it just this one time to “keep my business local and help the local economy” - they agreed to a $5,790 one pay.

That cost difference was less than the price of a one-way ticket between my house and Seattle (nevermind the ~5-hour drive home), so I said yes.

Actually closing was a bit of a cluster. I asked to do everything digitally, and first got a contract for a $3,400 one pay sent to my email! I nearly ecstatically signed, but then noticed that they’d also put the lease term as 1mo on that same contract.

That was enough to make them give up on esigning, so I had to actually go down to the dealer and complete the transaction today.

There was a lot of wonkyness around the manufacturer credits as well. They believed they could stack Conquest, Lease Conquest and Healthcare for a total of $3k in manufacturer credits. My sales rep had insisted that I’d somehow pay them the $500 Healthcare worker credit as part of the sale, and that Chevy would issue me a check in that amount. I was real clear that I wouldn’t be doing that. The finance guy educated my sales rep that wasn’t possible, but then insisted that the healthcare worker had to be a named leasee (despite my having a spousal pin).

In the end, they just decided to discount the vehicle a further $500 to make the deal work. In that process, my one-pay somehow dropped an additional $45 below the price we’d agreed on.

Wish I’d done this a month sooner so I could have gotten the Costco credit as well, or found a dealer who was brave enough to stack Supplier with Lease & Conquest, but still pretty happy with where I ended up.

The car is comfy and does what I need. Annoyed that it doesn’t have CarPlay, and debating whether it’s worth spending $700 to install a hitch to be able to haul bikes around on (something we do a lot of).

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Mind sharing the dealerships in the Seattle area that you were working with? Thank you!

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Better deal than what Im getting from dealers!! I hope you enjoy the car. Im upset about no CarPlay as well.

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The Seattle-area dealerships I got positive replies from were:

  • Gilcrest Auto in Tacoma
  • Lee Johnson Chevy in Kirkland
  • Chuck Olson Chevy in Shoreline
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One of these three was telling me 9000+ for Equinox LT AWD
They agreed to 5K range for Blazer? Did you have to haggle with them?

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I basically built an offer off-of the Rate Finder version of the calculator. It didn’t quite have all the “Conditional Cash” promos correct/accurate - but everything else about subvented lease rates, depreciation and money factors seemed to be correct.

I then emailed variations of that offer to about 12 dealers. I customized each one to be built off that dealer’s advertised price-reduction on the Blazer EV (Don’t bother including the “Ultium Promise Bonus Cash” many dealers are advertising, that’s exclusively on purchases, not leases). I wasn’t asking them to take a further reduction on their asking price, just let me take advantage of manufacturer incentives.

About half either didn’t respond or just sent shitty auto-replies.

Of the half that sent genuine replies, most came across as willing to do the deal if they could figure it out, but had disagreements about which manufacturer promos could stack.

There are, for example, users on this forum who’ve managed an additional $1K in manufacturer rebates above what I was, by stacking the EV Supplier with Conquest and Lease Conquest. But none of the dealers I got responses from believed that to be the case.

I’m sure they’d love to be able to lease a Blazer EV for $9k. Leases are pretty complicated, and most people (including me up until about 3 weeks ago) don’t know how to put them together. It helps to start by putting together an offer that makes it clear you’re someone who does understand how they work.

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Very cool. Learning about leases myself as this is the first time I’m getting one. Best offer I could get from one of the dealerships in the area was $310 per month including taxes.

Were these all LTs you were pursuing? You mentioned that you were looking to add a tow hitch. I thought I saw that on the RS, assumed it would be standard on the LT as well.

If you don’t mind sharing - What packages were included on the LT you purchased?

Was getting them to add a hitch an included in with the lease an option?

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Gotcha!
I will use a calculator to make an offer. See how that goes.
They did say shit like oh we are about to raise the prices for Blazer etc. Lol. Come on. You have 45 Blazers on the website. Thats not the time to raise prices.

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Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised.

Nearly every time manufactures do heavy lease incentives on a model that’s not selling well, dealers see a big bump in interest in that model and interpret as a surge in demand for that vehicle, not a surge in demand for an insane deal.

I was late to the wild BZ4X deals earlier this year, and every dealer I talked to was like, “I can’t honor those prices. These have been flying off the shelf!”

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I see. Thats a good strategy for them. I can wait. EVs are not a need to me, just a want and something fun to try, IF there is a good deal and it saves money (200+ monthly while our gas expense for our Tucson is about 150 a month, it just makes sense to lease one. 400 a month? Nah).

I wonder if the 2025s are coming out next month or so, they will be more willing to do deals in the 5K range.