The whole situation really is a double edged sword. I wish I was able to make a good suggestion on how to best deal with it.
While I am a broker (again), I was a regular use for years before starting brokering CDJR, becoming a regular user again, and now back at it with BMW and Porsche.
I’ve been on both sides of things.
We have new users commenting on other hackers deals just saying “Hi I’m in X location and want to get an Y for your deal, will take delivery before end of month” as if the other hacker is a car dealer who can sell them a car. We have low effort people who don’t understand that there is nuance behind this, you can’t just copy and paste someone else’s deal to a dealership and say “do this”.
Then you have people who are contacting dealers on cars that aren’t even leasable demos because they don’t know to do a CarFax check to see if it was registered as a personal lease.
Dealers want to sell cars, but like anyone else, they also want some basic level of respect given, and just emailing off a deal, that doesn’t even necessarily apply to a car they have, or isn’t the same MSRP, or it’s a month later and the program has changed, is going to not only get you nowhere, but turn that person off to doing these types of deals. That is why some of these dealers agree to work with brokers. It’s out job to filter out all the crap and make sure that these loser deals are low to no effort on the part of anyone at the dealership.
I had someone recently send me an M235i loaner deal from several years ago saying they wanted “something like this”.
Point is, it’s tough. The growth of the community could also wind up causing us problems when these insane deals get posted and hundreds if not thousands of people start hitting up every dealer in the country for a specific deal without putting in the legwork.
I almost wonder if posting these unicorn type deals should be a supporting member only feature, so that they stay with people who understand the process and how to shop one. I get that probably goes against the point of the community, but I’m just thinking out loud. It would make for a good selling point on a yearly sub. “Unicorn Lounge” for Supports only.