Originally Posted by ashonfire
bizzelz...You are correct when you say everybody's case is different. But unless "everybody" works for Chrysler, and gets a sweet lease deal like you did, most lease deals work out better for the Dealer every time. If not, then how can every dealer afford to simply "dump" all their incoming lease vehicles at dealer auctions for sometimes way below wholesale prices? I'll tell you why, because they made their profits up front. And the profits are big, or why else would they "push" leasing so much.
Rabidraider was "dead on the money" when he said the only real benefit to leasing a car is when you can write it off.
Not everybody trades cars every 3 years, some people (as shocking as this may sound to you) actually keep their car long after they are paid off. Those years of driving for free essentially, add up, to enable them some time to actually save up enough to buy another "new" car some day down the road.
You are really starting to sound like a "new car" salesman, but then again, that is what you are. So you are just doing your job.
Dealers have nothing to do with the car after its returned its the lease companies car, unless they lease company want the dealer to buy it from them to avoid the hassle of picking it up cleaning it and taking it to auction themselves. The leasing companies want to negotiate with the dealer to buy it just to save some money because the car aint worth crap compared to what the bean counters said it would be. This happens more often than not, I'd say 8 out of 10 times the bank or lease institution got the shaft, and the customer was lucky to be able to walk away and turn it back in. Think modern day pinto's, Think Employee pricing, Think of all the new technology coming out making 3 year old cars worth bupkiss. Cars nowadays depreciate faster than ever.
Call me a Car Salesmen all day long if it makes you feel better. I'm just trying to make a difference in the way people see leasing. Why? you ask,, not for my personal gain but for the 9 out of 10 customers I talk to these days are thousands upside down in their current car and they want to buy another with NO money down and on a 6 or 7 year loan and its a constant downward spiral till they will never get out from under their car...
only if they were educated in leasing before they had their DAD scream at them before they go to the dealership *DON'T YOU GO LISTENING TO THAT LEASING CRAP< ITS A RIP-OFF* cus he doesn't know eighter, things have changed from 30 years ago where people get the bad memories and back then it was a rip-off
IGNORANCE OF THE FACTS is the real killer here.
<just trying to help.