Well, in order for this car to be sold you will need a signed lease agreement. This includes you having signed all of the disclosures, etc.
Now, the only way that the lease payments can start last week is for BMW to backdate the contract after you sign it.
Backdating financial contracts, such as a lease agreement, is patently against the law.
Let's just say you are not off to a good start.
dagolfpro wrote I'm actually going the opposite way, I live in SF Bay Area and going down to San Diego as I just put a deposit down on a car @ BMW of Encinitas on a new M3. I'm concerned about these stories all the time. Deposits are different here in California. I was told by multiple SA that deposits can't be placed on cars here in Cali. It's either sold or available for sale. I tried to put deposits on various used cars at different BMW dealerships and was told many times that I couldn't. The fact that BMW of Encinitas did, I'm a little concerned as well. Plane ticket is bought and I'm suppose to pick up car next week. Sorry OP to hear about your story.
The Sales Manager told me the car is mine since I gave him a credit card for deposit. A week later, the charge hasn't appeared on my credit card. I was suppose to sign docs locally as well, but they had the wrong figures on the current contract. The dealership told me that they had to consider the car sold last week when I gave him the CC since they had others looking at the car since then. Therefore, since it's also a leased vehicle, he had to inform BMWNA that the car is sold as well so I have to start payment on it as of last week as well. Any insights to this?
