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Wasn't Jobs' Mercedes-Benz technically a lease? Because that probably made slightly more financial sense than to outright buy one every 180 days.
by Hamuko 4y ago
Wasn't Jobs' Mercedes-Benz technically a lease? Because that probably made slightly more financial sense than to outright buy one every 180 days.
- no_wizard 4y agoWhen I learned about the Jobs' car deal, I asked someone I knew in car sales about it. They said that most likely its a mundane 6 month lease that they were likely just repeatedly auto-renewing against the same vehicle until he chose to drive a different one, if at all. This is the most probable scenario
- samstave 4y agoCool, so is that deal available to all? Imagine as a non-billionaire/famous asking for such terms at purchase. Ffs I was paying cash for a new car and they said they wanted to run my credit.. I said FU and had to threaten to leave if they wanted the sale, why run credit on a cash purchase? But I don't expect that most dealers will give you a jobs-like deal? Or is this normal?
- QuizzicalCarbon 4y agoIt’s a short-term car lease. Nothing new.
- samstave 4y agoThanks, I was led to believe all these years that he had some sort of weird loophole he was exploiting... and I always found that weird, like, he had enough money to buy a new car every day if he wanted, so I never understood the impetus.