If it didnt this time, it certainly has before
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There was dashcam footage posted, but itās supporters only. 
Show me said Kinkos, Solanum Tuberosum
This is a composite character based on several true stories. Hersheyās actual deal has been shown to dealers, LH has been named dropped so many times the receptionist asks before transferring your call, people who had no clue burned 20 dealers less than 48 hours after the deal was posted. More than once a deal was snaked from an experienced hackr by an absolute newb because the clocks in MB stores were still on covid time and āIāll call you in the morning to finalizeā turned into āsomeone else sold your carā.
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Dealers should pay big bucks for lead generation then lol
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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.
Iāve been on both sides of things.
We have new users commenting on other hackers deals just saying āHi Iām in X location and want to get an Y for your deal, will take delivery before end of monthā as if the other hacker is a car dealer who can sell them a car. We have low effort people who donāt understand that there is nuance behind this, you canāt just copy and paste someone elseās deal to a dealership and say ādo thisā.
Then you have people who are contacting dealers on cars that arenāt even leasable demos because they donāt 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 doesnāt even necessarily apply to a car they have, or isnāt the same MSRP, or itās 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. Itās 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 āsomething like thisā.
Point is, itās 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 Iām just thinking out loud. It would make for a good selling point on a yearly sub. āUnicorn Loungeā for Supports only.
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So basically turned into a slickdeals effect - what used to be a smallish group of diehards who enjoy the chase about as much as the spoils eventually turns into a larger group of hyenas who then instead of getting their 1 Item buy out the whole store to sell on eBay and then complains to store management because something didnāt work perfect. Not saying the original people are saints and newer are awful, but in general a few bad apples on a forest has a lot more impact than some on one tree.
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Most of them the supports donāt know squat either
I bet the dealer asked do you have proof - show me where you are seeing this lol
Or where are you getting these numbers from so I can show my big hefe
wait thereās no one manning the shop here except you and mix master mike?
EQE is next. EQS production just got a head start. EQE inventory will start piling up through the year.
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Why is it so bad if thereās fake demand? If dealers think thereās demand only to later find out there isnāt, theyāre still gonna be stuck with a bunch of overpriced jelly beans, which means there will still be deals.
Who cares if someone waives a contract or an LH link around. And LH isnāt the only place that idiots can waive links to.
I get that posting contracts is irritating, but in the end I donāt think this EQS craze has ruined my chances to get one. And I am still enjoying the chase.
LH has just become mainstream, this is what happens; the slickdeals mention above is not too far off. Slickdeals, LHdeals, DansDeals, etc.
This is the way.
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So when you see something 
on SD selling on Amazon and rush to buy it, but the deal is gone - you donāt think itās the SD effect?
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Demand is measured by signed deals not inquiries. MB isnt going to keep their prices high if they arent moving cars no matter how many lookers there are. Iām not worried about painful shoppers inundating dealers with false expectations. MB will sell or lease cars where there is demand from qualified buyers - ie people who actually buy/lease their cars. There will always be demand for products below market established prices - that is true for virtually every product now.
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Demand as far as MB is. Demand as far as the dealers is absolutely driven by inquiries. You dont think theyāre going to behave differently when the phone is ringing off the hook vs when itās silent?
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Not surprised that this has all of a sudden became a problem. I knew this was going to go sideways when I saw LH EQS deals start to pop up on my FYPā¦ Hell I even encountered @HersheySweet in the comments section of that LH EQS Tiktok video 
Does it really make that much more a difference than a newbie reading the post on LH and calling 20 dealers asking them to match āthe leasehackr dealā? I got a few leasehackr deal responses when I called around for the Macan, but still ended up finding one. Yes, they now have an example contract to share, but I think what kills the deals for everyone else is just the demand itself, regardless of signed.
One porsche dealer sent me āviewā stats on his demo macan, it was up 500+ views from the previous week with like 50 views. I knew why, obviously didnāt say anything tho. Thanked him for his time, wished him well, and kept looking.
Honestly, what hurts most is when tire kickers call around, get a deal, and then donāt take it. That kills the car, deal, dealer, rep, everything for everyone else.
IMO, high inquiries will initially create the potential for a less willing dealer, but when the conversion rate of inquiries to closed sales is minuscule (which may take weeks/months to present) then the number of inquiries wont matter anymore. In some way, it may make a dealer more likely to take a thin deal quickly if they know thats what the market is going to demand anyway.
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The problem is if you donāt understand leasing dealers will walk you to a bad deal
A lead is a lead - contracts are just pure ammo - dealers canāt fight it - hence the craziness
When dealers ask for proof - dudes are send real contracts over lol
The real problem is there is absolutely 0 benefit to mentioning leasehackr to a deal and 100% detrimentā¦ yet people do it anyways.
Because they donāt understand how this whole system works.
They think this is a coupon book, not a resource. Being a leasehackr or not does not change MF, RV, discount, and incentives. So why are the peanut brains mentioning it at all?
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Riffing on this, could be time barred ā uploads are restricted to the Unicorn Lounge/Signed for a pre-designated period of time like ~21 days before being made available to the general LHer community.
This gives the hackrs with Unicorn access (based on community contributions, or maybe a Unicorn Level Supporter fee) a shot at closing a deal before it gets flooded by low-effort newbies, while still satisfying the general education mission of the site.
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