Fill in the calc after confirming Residual, MF and Incentives at edmunds.
Here is an example for $49,995 Mercedes assuming 56% residual, .00056 MF, $500 Lease Cash and no loyalty. If you get too much over 50k, its ‘agreed value’ might exceed 50k even after discount because you capitalize the drive-offs. And tax on a car over 50k is higher than on under 50k
You should be able to avoid that by paying some inceptions down.
General advise here is not to put money down to decrease the cap cost. You can still do some inceptions, it doesn’t count as money down. But I would assume this forum wouldn’t mind you paying $300 down if required do decrease cap cost to keep the lower sales tax bracket.
There are plenty of email templates on this forum, and you should be able to craft one, should be short and to the point, easily. Suggest your own price, including all details such as MSDs or no MSDs, incentives you know about (from Edmunds).
but before you do that, fill in the calc, look at the numbers, and contact @AutoCompanion or other brokers on the forum. they might land a much better deal for you. He has a bunch of c300 demo listed with good discount, new ones too. You can also get c43 for under $600