u/UESJR2021

Is it just me or does anyone else out there feel like hustle culture should die? The world is a shit show, we now have a trillionaire, and $100k is now middle class. I just want to get my paycheck and lay low, read my book, smoke my weed, and play with my dogs. Screw keeping up with the Jones, who destroyed the environment with their greed.

A while back I jumped ship from car dealership to automotive finance. I’m more of a bank rep for a subprime finance company, ask me in the DM’s the company name. Layoffs started in April, with some collections staff and some IT engineers totaling 152. Next they announced any markets that weren’t hitting metrics would not be backfilled in order to keep the best talent in house, and now they have just announced some VP’s have been let go. I am only 7 months into a corporate job; is this how corporate America is? It feels disgusting working for a big conglomerate that burns and churns personnel. I don’t wanna hit the panic button yet, but this cements my feelings of sticking to the minimum, not worth overachieving.

Fellows Stallions, my lease is almost up. When I leased I wasn’t expecting to like it as much, wasn’t expecting the EV market to hold steady due to oil prices sky rocketing, nor quit my dealership job. Well, those things happened, and I’m sitting now in an ok conundrum. I pulled JD Power value on my car yesterday, and Retail is sitting at $40,700. My lease buyout is $33,767.

The question is, has anyone had any success negotiating with the dealer on their lease buyout? I never had a customer try, but everything in life is negotiable.

Edit: 2023 GT Premium Extended Range. Original MSRP was $68,095. The AI made me add that info.