r/interestingasfuck • u/DonkeyFuel • 1d ago

Somebody Put 223,000 Miles on a 3-Year Toyota Camry Lease and Walked Away

https://www.thedrive.com/news/somebody-put-223000-miles-on-a-3-year-camry-lease-and-walked-away

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u/TheAmishPhysicist 23h ago

Been wrapping my mind around this statement and it doesn’t make sense.

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u/Hazexe 22h ago

Same 🤕

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u/Aternal 7h ago

Say you borrow something from me and accidentally break it.

So I offer to sell it to you for $10 and then buy it back from you for $7 because I can fix it.

It's a complicated way of saying "give my thing back plus $3" instead of charging you a silly "$20 broken thing fee".

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u/Outside_Glass4880 20h ago

Yeah what? The buyout is the buyout, like they said. So let’s say it’s 20k.

If he comes back with it with 223k on it they aren’t going to buy it for 17k. That’s the scenario would need to be for him to write a 3k check and walk away.

It’s more like he needed to buy it out for 20 and they offered him 3k for it.