Great deal! Congrats, and thanks for sharing all the details!
Quick question: Was the $3,450 the total amount you paid to the dealer, with all fees and taxes included, or were there any additional charges beyond that? I noticed there is no tax listed on the contract copy, so I was curious if you had to pay anything extra besides the $3,450. Thanks!
The deal is simply calculated “wrong”. Even DMV fees were wrong and indeed no tax was added in this deal at all (should be 1.2%). It’s one of those that dealership decided to eat the cost type of deal, I hope Jose still has the job lol. They are losing about ~$600 because of the errors.
Edit: looks like dude is in used car department now. Not sure about how the dealership hierarchy goes but definitely no longer a new car sales.
OP is definitely lucky to have secured that deal, while I was not as fortunate. When I tried to replicate OP’s price, a dealer agreed to that amount before I visited, promising it would include TTL. However, once I arrived, they attempted to charge an additional $3,000 in taxes on top of the $3,450 one-pay lease, referring to the extra $3,000 as a “first payment.”
Before my visit, they actually pulled my credit, and I passed the GMF. However, they still insisted on charging the full tax at 6.25%. I even explained the 1.2% tax rate, but they refused to adjust it accordingly.
Any idea whether dealers have fewer credits as we approach end of calendar year? Or is there allotment/supply fairly consistent? Chevy Equinox EV 2024 in particular.