Yeah. When you log in it shows you the price you should be paying when you use A plan.
Donât you have to create an account to log in and maybe qualify to create an account?
Yes so it applies to those that have A plan. No point to discuss A plan if the person doesnât qualify for it.
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Itâs a bit of a Catch 22. I mentioned before that not all HR departments are aware they have it (Apple, for example, a few years ago). Logging into the website is fine if you know you have it. Even still, I donât think that website will know what advertising or charity charges are added on to the invoice of a particular car. Their language (last time I checked) was âestimated.â Port installed options donât follow the 6% margin, either.
You keep talking about all these hidden fees of advertising and etc. But the A plan website lists the actual price someone should get when using A plan. If I was buying I would point to the A plan price and call it a day.
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This is definitely true. I knew my company qualified for Mercedes fleet and got a pin # from their fleet services department. Since I saw 0 info on this benefit on any of our websites, I sent a note to our HR person and not only did she say it doesnât exist, but that it was probably a discount to buy a company car which I did not qualify for. I ignored her 
but I think in some cases these types of benefits may be intentionally hidden and treated as executive perks.
How did you ultimately figure out your company qualified for MB fleet?
Funny enough, an LH article that shared a list of companies -
Ha! Thanks! 20202020
i see a bunch of dealers with 2017 s90s. how do you find the current incentives/rebates on those? the volvo site wonât let you configure / estimate payment on them anymore, and they arenât showing up on autobytelâŚ
and i assume the a-plan discounts are the same?
You canât lease 2017, so donât bother with those unless you want to purchase.
ah, didnât know that. ok thanks
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Letâs keep it clean.
Check the landfill. Nothing unclean there. Just heavy handedness. LOL
How much does residual change when the 2019s come in? Current S90 residuals seem to be around 50% (49-53%) for the S90 T6âs⌠Is that just a function of âend of lifeâ for the model year makes it lower value? Seems crazy though for pricing â would think at some point pre-2019 models the pricing would shift back in favor of the customer and bring down lease pricesâŚ
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Yes and no. When I got my S60 2 years ago, there were great incentives in July, but I was selling my lease, so I had to finish that first before getting another car. The incentives changed drastically in August, but they were still decent. At that point, stock was low, as it is for the S90 at many dealers right now.
Because I couldnât find anything in August, and my transfer wasnât fully-set until September (by the way, it takes FOREVER for Ford!), there really wasnât anything left for 2016s. The incentives were still decent, but dealers were jerking me around. The 2017 just came out, and there were already incentives on that, so I got it for not much more than a 2016 was in August/September (the deal I had for July was on a CC and it was crazy. That was the only thing that was less, but then the dealer wouldnât honor it, despite the incentives).
Last year incentives increased as residual values held steady or diminished slightly. Then in a strange quirk of pricing, Volvo jacked residual value of 2018s in January while cutting incentives. Lease support for 2017s ended at end of Feb 2018 (and many dealers had loads of 2017s still to sell).