BraveLittleToaster
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LTLFTcomposite said:Like a sales guy would tell you if they were having trouble unloading themTurnover said:I noticed that our dealer hasn't posted a newspaper add to sell a used Leaf for over a year. I then asked one of the sales people if they were having trouble getting rid of Leaf lease returns. They said absolutely not; that they sell right away on Craig's List. My wild guess is there may be an incentive for dealers not to have it known how cheap these returns actually sell for. I too noticed that the Kelly Blue book now gives a wholesale price for our Leaf as around $8k less that the lease values it at the end of our lease ... in about 11 months.
Try finding a Leaf on Craigslist then. The cheapest one I found was a guy trying to sell his 2012 SL for the same price as our 2012 SV rolled off the lot at. Mind you, that was early in 2013 when Nissan was having a year-end sale to make way for the new 2013s, so we got a killer deal, but still...
People can start saying how awful the resale value of my car is at 5 years old, when any of them start getting sold at 5 years old. Until then, it's just hot air.