It's not hard to place limits on the number of hitches you can sell, for example. With computers it's trivial. Ford is clearly not prepared, on many levels, to move to an entirely custom order model.
Sales is an industry where dishonesty is often rewarded in the short term. Add in that most folks aren't buying multiple cars a year, so they don't need to build loyalty the way other sales businesses do.I actually went into this process thinking this might be the time that I wouldn't lose even more faith in dealerships. I figured this was going to essentially be a no-negotiation transaction which would remove all of the conflict that normally occurs when I have to haggle, start to walk out, wait for them to call me back, numerous trips to talk to managers, people getting upset at me, etc.
I get there are some good ones out there but holy hell most are a disappointing mix of slimy and incompetent. I don't know where I'm going with this but I feel a little better now
The hard part is knowing how many of “X” part you are going to be able to source, manufacture in house, or how many a third party will be able to make over a certain time period.
NO.
Ford very well may have taken more Maverick orders than they can build for 23MY. But they aren't going to purge orders. Some of the later orders may be more buildable than the earlier orders. They may be able to get in more parts and produce more than they initially expect.
Think of the panic if Ford had a count down screen of remaining unordered hybrid/EB mavericks online with three bullets green, yellow, red (ordering closed).
And Ford has to take care of Brazil. That's where your truck went.
Great, not nearly enough of them to satisfy the needs of their home market, now's the perfect time to start sending them elsewhere...
I ordered Tremor Tuesday 8:28 am = no problem. EB had their separate allocations and order closing and I suspect that Tremors had their IWN allocations and order open and closing.dates and times. Also concerning the dealers taking preorders who is to say they did not have a spread sheet they were entered into with a scripting program set up to enter them one at a time when orders were opened. They could then be entered as fast as the Ford ordering program responded to each and every "enter key pressing". Could also be programmed to reconnect automatically if connection to server was dropped. Several dozen preordered mavericks could be entered in very few minutes.
This. I'm old, been buying vehicles before a lot of you could drive, and Ive never left a dealership without feeling unclean. I've never once had a smooth experience, without some level of pressure, game-playing, 100 attempts to add to the total, and more. My last new car I bought "completely online," to try to avoid that nonsense, and STILL had to put up with some of the above when I showed up to get it. Good lord, why does it have to be this way, particularly in this day and age, when the business model of order it online, see exactly what you're getting and paying for, click Buy and be done is already so deeply established! Ranting, I know. Still. Keeping my fingers crossed that my Mav experience will be different, I really hope so, especially since it's likely the last I'll ever buy.I actually went into this process thinking this might be the time that I wouldn't lose even more faith in dealerships. I figured this was going to essentially be a no-negotiation transaction which would remove all of the conflict that normally occurs when I have to haggle, start to walk out, wait for them to call me back, numerous trips to talk to managers, people getting upset at me, etc.
I get there are some good ones out there but holy hell most are a disappointing mix of slimy and incompetent. I don't know where I'm going with this but I feel a little better now
So why would Sunday and Mondays orders be purged before Tuesday and Wednesdays order. This doesn’t make much sense and is clearly dealer bs…
