Had a lease payout of $29,696 for my wife’s 2019 Lexus RX 350 that we’d had for ~23 months.
Offers:
Dealership $32,500
Vroom $33,400
Carmax $35,200
Carvana $37,600 (climbed $2k in the last 2 weeks)
Shift $38,100
Shift got me on the phone with Lexus/Toyota financial for a 5 minute phone call to release lease payout on Thursday. Arrived in the 2 hour window this morning and the whole process took about 20 minutes. They dinged me $275 for a scrape on the side, and gave me the $200 bonus for signing on the spot so total payout was $8,329! The deal sweetener was the tires and registration that were due in the next couple months that were going to cost ~$1,400 together.
We picked up the 2021 RX 450H as the replacement a few days ago, I couldn’t be happier: