If I work with a car dealer, be it Honda or Toyota, in the past, they sometimes say, "you say we bait and switch? This is the first time we hear anybody claiming this." And now, with Yelp and Google Maps Reviews so transparent, I can see so many bad reviews about a business. Claiming a lease for $259 with $2999 down, and then even if you trade in a car that can give you $8000 equity due to little driving during Covid, now the lease is still $259. Attracting you to go there and then now trying to sell you something different and $100 more per month. Sometimes they seem to even find out where you live and what your job is, and judge "this customer should be ok with a $360 lease" even though their ad or the website calculator says it is a $259 lease. I can see so many cases like that by 200 other people, so there is no way for them to say, "oh I am hearing it the first time", so as to tell me why am I so difficult to deal with or why do I raise unreasonable concerns.
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Are they looking you up on LinkedIn? Best to sell the trade yourself to carmax or something.
I guess it is possible they looked me up on Linkedin. And even on the phone, they already ask me from which city and I coming from, and a few minutes into the conversation, like "how far do you drive to work per day? Are you an engineer?" Carmax or I guess Carvana? I tried Carvana and they gave me a price quote for my car $20,800. And then I tried Tesla's Trade In, and it was $18,800. I bet if I trade in to Toyota, they probably low ball me by giving me $18,800 also, do some beauty work on the car and now put a price tag to sell at $23,999. The problem with Carmax or Carvana is that you have to sell it one day, and now you are without a car, and you have to travel to this dealership or another to shop for a car. I guess $66 for Uber is not bad. Also if you sell the car on Thursday and plan to buy or lease a car on Sunday, then you have to rely on Uber for 4 days, and it could cost you like $200, $300.