Hello everyone I have a leasing contract that is due in 5 months, for personal reasons I am leaving Switzerland and need to finish the lease earlier, I have contacted them and tell them I would like an early release and buyout the car. The offer they have give me is a bit above my expectations , my calculation is : 5x pending monthly installment + buyout price ( restwert in the contract) but they state that their offer is not based on the residual value or pending installments but on the market price of the vehicle. I am not very familiar with this topic ( and I definitely regretted leasing over the years ) but wanted to reach out to understand if this is a common practice, if there is some room for negotiation or maybe I am completely off with my assumption ( their calculation and mine are 1.5k chf apart, so not a huge gap either way ) Thanks a lot! Edit: thanks everyone who took the time to read and provide their feedback! Thanks to your answers I convinced myself that what they were proposing didn’t have much sense and was quite unfair ( I already negotiated the car price back then why would I need to do it now again ) and took the initiative to go to the garage directly instead of dealing with it online. I went there, sat with the sales person, in less than 10 minutes it was all solved the offered me the price I had in mind - it was generated automatically by their system based on pending installments and residual value. At this point I am not even sure why the person from the online channel was making that offer but is not the first time I’ve had issues with them. submitted by /u/edeaslo
Originally posted by u/edeaslo on r/Switzerland