<prompt> Human: Hi everyone, I dont really post much on reddit, so forgive me if I sound weird or anything. But my father and I have a bit of a situation going on, and Id like to see if theres anything we can do about it, or if we got what was coming to us. Im a 19 year old female living at home with my parents, attending college full time 18 credits and working around 25 hours a week with an 8 dollar an hour pay. I dont have a car payment bought a junker two years ago, cash and the only thing I pay for in the house is food for myself and the parents. My parents are pretty nice about living me rent free. Im in the market for a new car. The old junker is getting a little unreliable, and Im willing to pay a monthly fee for a car that I know wont break down on the side of the road. Ive heard good things about leasing a car while in college, so I thought that Id try to lease a new Kia. Im a little too kind when it comes to people scamming me over, so I brought my dad along to the dealership just to make sure nothing bad happened. He also offered to co-sign if my credit wasnt good enough. As the employee was processing my application my dad not being a co-singer I asked Will this be a soft or hard pull?. The employee said soft. I was a little anxious, as I figured something like this would probably be considered a hard pull. He went back, did his business, came back twenty minutes later and said I wasnt approved. I have good credit, I just havent had it for long enough I have a credit history of about six months. He said my dad would need to co-sign to be eligible. Before my dad signed the slip, which was just a small green piece of paper with no fine print, I asked, Will this be a soft or hard pull?. The employee said soft. Still being anxious, the employee left to go do whatever it is they do in the back room at a car dealership.He comes back out forty minutes later saying wed been approved for a car loan for a 2012 Kia Rio. We were in the market of looking to lease a 2015 Kia Forte. We made that apparent from the start. When he told us we would be purchasing, my father said then were done and we left. The next day, my father checks his credit report to see that there had been five hard pulls done on his credit. I looked at mine, and found the same thing. The reason were upset is because the dealership told us twice, to our faces, that it would be one singular soft pull. Not five hard pulls. Our question; is there any way to dispute this? Will these hard pulls eventually just turn into one hard pull, seeing as how they were issued in one day? Will this negatively effect both of our credit? My father was on the phone with the salesperson today and called him out on it, and the salesperson responded with I never lied you to.. So were a little upset about that. Are all car dealerships like this, willing to lie to get a sale? Or were we just supposed to know that this was gonna happen? Thanks for reading through all this! Im sorry it was so long winded.TL;DR: Dad and I want to lease a car, car salesman says itll be a soft pull, next day theres five hard pulls on CR, salesman lies and said he never said soft pull. Will these hard pulls go awayis there anything we can do about it?EDIT: Woah, thanks to everyone for the inputs!  <response>: Credit inquiries are one of the least damaging things to show up on your credit report. I wouldnt worry about it too much, especially if you were shopping for credit. Inquiries dont count as much as payment history, revolving utilization and other factors that contribute to the calculation of a credit score.A single inquiry typically impacts the score by one to five points, says Sarah Davies, senior vice president of analytics and product management for Stamford, Conn.-based VantageScore Solutions LLC. All three major credit reporting agencies -- Equifax, Experian and TransUnion -- developed the VantageScore credit scoring model, which rolled out in 2006. Eight of the top 10 credit card issuers use it. Multiple inquiries generated when rate-shopping for a mortgage, auto or student loan are consolidated by credit scoring models when done within a certain window of time. The FICO scoring model ignores mortgage, auto and student loan inquiries in the 30 days prior to scoring. Mortgage, auto and student loan inquiries older than 30 days are lumped as one inquiry whenever they fall within a 14-day span. Newer versions of the scoring model count the shopping period as any 45-day span. VantageScore lumps such inquiries that occur within a rolling 14-day window as one inquiry.Edit: To answer your last question, they will stay on your report for two years but usually are negated much earlier. 