I do not think the % of flippers will be small. My bet is many who ordered a 2022 will also order a 2023 (or 2 or 3) with the idea that they can wait 12+ months again and when the new truck(s) arrives, sell all but one. If just 1/4 of 2022 order holders do this that can equal thousands of Mavericks that will end up at Carvana and Carmax. Add to this all the new people who were locked out wanting to order 2 or 3. 50K+ Mavericks can be in control of flippers.
Then it sounds like Ford needs to limit a Maverick order of 1 per person. I can't think of any logical reason why anybody other than business owners would need more than one Maverick. Flipping should be just as discouraged as overcharging msrp. It's a selfish strategy to make money off of taking advantage of others
Not everyone who buys more than one is doing it for the purpose of flipping. There is a limit to how many you can buy, though. Your personal finances. Even if you weren't going to keep it for long, there is no harm in buying it - if you can afford it - and seeing how it is to live with for a month or two. I've done that more than once while waiting on the Maverick. I drove a 2021 Kia Forte GT for 3 months, a 2021 Volvo XC40 for 5 months, a 2021 Kia Seltos for 1 month, and a 2022 Maverick XL for 1 month. All, aside from the Volvo which was a subscription car, were sold for a profit.
I ordered three from three different dealers. I didn't do that to flip, I did it to play the allocation lottery because placing just one order didn't seem like a smart move with all the delays, constraints, limited allocations at small dealers, etc.
maybe. depends on how many pre-orders in front of you at your dealer. I figure the max any 1 dealer can enter per day is 16.
This is exactly why I said earlier the 2023s can sell out in one day. Landric ordered 3 so he is another flipper, unless he want to drive all 3 for some reason. If just 40,000 people out of the millions that now know about the Maverick do this - goodbye 2023 capacity.
Are you 100 percent positive the salesman entered your order in correctly? COVP/ROVP complete ?
I think I have seen a few husband and wife purchases. Also, some kids get a new vehicle for high school or college graduation. For many people a $20,000 gift is not extravagant. I never got a new car for graduation. My selfish parents were probably wasting money on stupid things like food, water, heat, electricity, and the mortgage.
I forgot, I did receive the we got your order email from Ford on Oct 26, 2021. Nothing else from Ford. I have received texts from salesman regularly on my other order. On this order she has repetedly reported nothing has happened. For whole month of August she said they had 10 allocations and I was next up on dealers list. Last Thursday 9/02/22 at 4:01 pm she texted that it now shows a vin and ETA at dealership of 11/10/22 week. She was slammed so I told her if I didn't get vin by 9/9/22 from Ford I would text her for it. With ETA date I am assuming that the plant has scheduled the actual build date. It does look like I will get it this year.
I got my vin from Ford customer service. You might want to give them a call on Tuesday. Phone is 800-334-4375.
