How do those numbers add up? A 5% discount on a $50,000 vehicle is $2500, so he would have had to have sold almost 3500 of them to get to $8.7M in discounts. It sounds more like that was the purchase price of 250 vehicles, not the discounts.
Your math is correct. That comes out to about $34,000.00 per vehicle......which if you factor in how much a Journey, Dart, V6 Charger or Miinivan average in price, you're bang on.
You're misreading or misinterpreting what is stated in the article.
It says he sold 250 vehicles in January 2020 alone.
He's been doing it since 2014, how many cars did he sell in that time frame????
If he sold 250 cars a month that would be 18,000 cars over 6 years.
I'm not saying it was that many vehicles, but it shows the flaw in your math since it went on for 6 years not just one month.
At least that's how I understood what the article says.
