Long McArthur Ford is gettting ZERO allocations for at least this coming month.

[Ridgview]

FoMoCo is giving allocations to the weak dealers who don’t put forth even 10 percent the effort Long McArthur’s Tim Bartz does. So many dealers and lazy sales folks can contribute at least some Mav sales due to his efforts. And then for Long McArthur to receive NO allocations next month…I mean NONE. Ford Motor Company owes that fellow an acknowledgement of his efforts in promoting the Ford brand. What a shame……..

Recent actions by Ford in general have me questioning my decision to consumate my Mid June build…..

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[n0maverick]

Glad i got one last year. Sad to see same old Ford order/allocation stupidity. Definitely never buying a ford again. Truck is great but company is trash.

 

[Dfergys]

Just heard Long McArthur Ford is getting ZERO allocations for this coming month. (Corrected from saying "rest of the year").

FYI, they were ranked 3rd in the Nation for EcoBoost in sales for Month of May.
January-May of 2023, they are ranked 4th in the Nation in Hybrid sales.

Zero allocations......

Fords new Motto: We keep sales down to where we can handle it!

 

[Dfergys]

Fords new Motto: We keep sales down to where we can handle it!

Ford ought to be embarrassed!

 

[Dfergys]

I can bet Tim an everyone there at Long McArthur Ford are just as disappointed as the rest of us are.

LM and Tim and Sarah love their Company, Ford. And do a great job representing Ford!

 

[Dfergys]

I feel so sorry to the hundreds of loyal Ford buyers through the years and they can't get the Ford they want. Being loyal to a car Company and not able to buy what they want/need.
Ford must know that LOYALITY is a two way street!

 

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[LSchicago]

Just heard Long McArthur Ford is getting ZERO allocations for this coming month. (Corrected from saying "rest of the year").

FYI, they were ranked 3rd in the Nation for EcoBoost in sales for Month of May.
January-May of 2023, they are ranked 4th in the Nation in Hybrid sales.

Zero allocations......

Good. Maybe some other dealers can get some. Truth be told, I don't think there are any more for anyone until next month.

 

[MAVornoMavisthequestion]

Ford management is terrible. Not only are they screwing customers. By far one of the best dealers does not get rewarded. Society nowadays rewards the lazy ones. Keep this up Ford, the competition will eat your lunch once again.

 

[Bob The Builder]

No Good Deed goes unpunished.

 

[prsncat]

As with ANY allocation thread here, most are posting statements based on.....no real information.

If LM has no allocations for a month, it may well have been known that was coming. Maybe, due to LM's really good service toward customers, they had gotten WAY more allocation than they normally would in the past few months. Now, Ford is trying to catch up on Retail orders before model year build out. Could be they are concentrating on other good dealers with a backlog that really needs and deserves attention. There are a lot of good dealers, I don't doubt LM is one of them. But Tim does not work for Ford. His videos are not sponsored by Ford. They are an excellent way to promote HIM and his dealership. Which I applaud.

Most here won't agree, but I think Ford has made a big effort to fill as many retail orders as they can. Yes, there are fleet orders. But what I hear is that many of those have been waiting as long as some of the retail orders. Not many months back the sentiment here was that something like 30 or 40,000 Hybrid orders might not get built. Now that may be under half or even better of that amount. Again, the dealers have a responsibility to plan how many orders they can fill. Nothing wrong with taking more, AS LONG AS IT IS MADE CLEAR THEY ARE UNLIKELY TO GET BUILT!

I agree with you wholeheartedly.

My point is that Ford has stated several times that they plan on taking allocations away from the dealers that are adding large ADMs (and probably have a lower sales volume as a result).

For what it is worth, I still prefer the current independent dealership system over the direct-to-consumer model. We can always go to a different dealership if one treats us poorly. If you look at the list of dealerships I maintain for MTC, the vast majority of dealerships are 'Recommended.' There are very few dealerships people are warning us to avoid.

 

[wax87]

I felt the same way at one time, but I decided to wait it out. I can tell you this, after an 18 month wait it was well worth it. I hope you will find participating on this forum can help to ease the stress of the long wait. We are all here to support one another. 

Yea, but there is no roll over for the the 23 >24 MY

 

[James D]

Maybe this means my little local dealer might actually get a Maverick. I’m a priority 10, but the allocations game has put me on the sideline. Ford should build all special orders before building any dealer stock units.

I agree with you David. There are a lot of LM fans who do not realize they got screwed and have no chance that their truck gets built.

LM sucked up orders from across the country that should have gone to a local dealer. My medium sized dealer had just 75 of this year's hybrid orders. Waiting in LM's long line of hundreds of Maverick orders, hoping to win the allocation lottery with all that competition, makes no sense.

I am not surprised their next month's allocations will be zero. On LM's video this week, Tim said 200 of their hybrids probably won't get delivered. Ouch! There are going to be a ton of LM order holders that will probably be upset at Tim after all these months of hoping.

If his buyers want to play the allocation game again, they will have to start the months of waiting all over, but this time compete with millions more trying to place orders now that they know the Maverick exists.

Last Sept was an order frenzy. LM should have stopped taking orders once they hit their expected allocations, which is easy to figure because it is based on last year's sales. No matter how wonderful you think Tim is, he should have warned his buyers that he had no allocations left - go buy from somewhere else.

I can understand an allocation system for dealer inventory, not customer orders. It should not matter which dealer you order a custom build from. Ford's attempt to be fair to dealers with allocations is very unfair to the people who actually buy Ford's product.

 

[JEMiculka]

Maybe @fordvideoguy and @Sarah Davis should just open up their own dealership.

 

[cavemold]

I wonder why . Could be 24 around the corner .. Is one guess … could be they net allocation order threshold

@fordvideoguy any insight you can give us would be great . Thanks again!

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