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#452 - Is This the Dark Days of Buy Here Pay Here?
In this episode of the Independent Dealer Podcast, Jeff Watson and Luke Godwin are not sugarcoating it. Record charge-offs. Deportations and voluntary surrenders. COVID-era deals from 2023 finally caving under worn-out cars and balances that still have a year left on them. Subprime lenders beating BHPH on payment affordability and taking the same customers. Dealers calling it a fun run and quietly exiting. Jeff calls it straight — these are the dark days of buy here pay here. But dark days are also when the operators who survive separate themselves from the ones who do not. This episode is…
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