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

[Teejman]

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.

Agree. Tim/LM is a very helpful resource but I’m a long way from Kansas. I should not be punished as Ford’s end consumer because there are no middlemen (dealers) as good in my region. If I take this to its extreme, in order for all consumers to compete fairly, we should all just order from one dealer nationwide and have them ship to us.

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[Lonnie gee]

I can not believe what Ford is doing to Long Mcauthor AND TIM Shame on you ford you got your Number 3 dealer in the USA for ECOs. And Number 4 for Hybrids in the USA for Maverick's Also what about the Hundreds of Customers that have been
waiting for their Mavericks SHAME ON YOU FORD Your on one of your best dealers and On Hundreds of your Customers you have cost your Customers lots of TIME /MONEY This is not how you run a business farley No a thousand time No Tim and Long McArthur Have been you number ONE CHEERLEADER FOR OVER 2 PLUS YEARS ON YOU TUBE he has 100 s of people watch Him and Shara and sold 1000s of Maverick's and Broncos and you treat them like that . Sure would be funny if customer care and the upper brass got a lot of phone calls and E mails. I'm sorry Ford there is no way to defend your actions. (. I truly wonder what Henry Ford would say to this action I don't think it would be GOOD

Give it a rest ,there other factors too , and other dealers and waiting customers at those regions , what Tim does is good for all but it does not mean that LM gets everything and special privileges
All you complaint on this are being bias and would appear to have ordered and waiting for delivery at LM

 

[GPSMan]

How about lottery tickets?

If you get a lottery ticket in July, you know FOR SURE you get a truck.

No ticket, you for sure won't get one that year (unless via private sale; transfer, etc.)

Ends the guessing game and waiting game.

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[Lugnut]

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

There was no rollover from 22 to 23 either, we all had to reorder. Ford was gracious enough to offer those of us who had been waiting a private offer. They may be kind enough to do the same this year, regardless of what was said before. Time will tell!

 

[Mav_RICK]

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.

Hmmm I ordered from Tim and I heard no sucking sound. To be fair with a new model that came out just the year before I'm not sure anyone really knew what the allocations would be. There were people that ordered from LM that were down the line quite a ways who got scheduled while people near the top have yet to be scheduled, probably due to constraints.

I knew LM was taking lots of orders and so should have everyone else. I was never promised a truck. I did the prudent thing and ordered from a smaller dealer as well. Shoot back in Sept 2022 lots of dealerships didn't even know what a Maverick was.

 

[LSchicago]

That makes no sense @Ford. How can you give zero allocations to your best advocate on the web!

Well if I heard right they did get 75 last month. No need to be allocation whores.

 

[James D]

Hmmm I ordered from Tim and I heard no sucking sound. To be fair with a new model that came out just the year before I'm not sure anyone really knew what the allocations would be. There were people that ordered from LM that were down the line quite a ways who got scheduled while people near the top have yet to be scheduled, probably due to constraints.

I knew LM was taking lots of orders and so should have everyone else. I was never promised a truck. I did the prudent thing and ordered from a smaller dealer as well. Shoot back in Sept 2022 lots of dealerships didn't even know what a Maverick was.

What you wrote seems like it is the customer's fault for ordering from the wrong place. A dealer may not know the exact number of allocations, but they know it is based on last year's sales so they have a good idea.

All I am saying is Tim and any dealer should have warned their buyers their build was dependent on having enough allocations, and sorry, we already exceeded last year's total Maverick deliveries so you should order from someone else.

The word "allocation" was probably never mentioned during the order frenzy party last Sept. That is going to hurt people who did not know they should also have placed an order at another dealer like you did.

 

[Donodo]

To be fair, I heard Tim mentioned multiple times in his YouTube videos that no one has any idea what the true allocations will be for the 2023 Maverick. Anyone with some critical thinking skills, would realize that there are no guarantees by any dealership or by Ford.

 

[Mav_RICK]

What you wrote seems like it is the customer's fault for ordering from the wrong place. A dealer may not know the exact number of allocations, but they know it is based on last year's sales so they have a good idea.

All I am saying is Tim and any dealer should have warned their buyers their build was dependent on having enough allocations, and sorry, we already exceeded last year's total Maverick deliveries so you should order from someone else.

The word allocation was probably never mentioned during the order frenzy party last Sept. That is going to hurt people who did not know they should also have ordered at another dealer like you did.

James don't get me wrong I felt too many orders were being taken at LM but I wonder percentage wise if it's really much higher than any other dealership? if a dealership ends up only getting say 15 allocations all year and they take 30 orders that's sucks just as bad for the 15. LM is my home town dealership. I live 1500 miles away now. I was following Tim early in 2022 and knew all about allocations and lots of other things Maverick and a lot due to Tim's videos.

Here is what I saw right before LM started taking orders for MY 2023. Lots of people came in late wanting Tim to take their orders from MY 2022 because they felt like their dealerships dropped the ball and many of them likely did. Tim was advising them to stay with their original orders and I think many did but ordered a second with LM. So lots of those people who are not getting scheduled through LM may still have an order with someone else. Lots of those dealerships let these people down.

 

[Mav_RICK]

Well if I heard right they did get 75 last month. No need to be allocation whores.

LOL well I'm sure anyone with a unscheduled LM order were fine with the whole whore thing

 

[LSchicago]

LOL well I'm sure anyone with a unscheduled LM order were fine with the whole whore thing

Whores usually do have lines of waiting customers.

 

[Mav_RICK]

Whores usually do have lines of waiting customers.

Guilty as charged

 

[James D]

To be fair, I heard Tim mentioned multiple times in his YouTube videos that no one has any idea what the true allocations will be for the 2023 Maverick. Anyone with some critical thinking skills, would realize that there are no guarantees by any dealership or by Ford.

Dealers project sales upon allocations, which has been part of their business planning for years. Of course they have an idea of how many they will receive. For example, if they sold 100 Mavericks last year, without the plant increasing capacity, the dealer should not double the orders to 200.

 

[Mav_RICK]

Dealers project sales upon allocations, which has been part of their business planning for years. Of course they have an idea of how many they will receive. For example, if they sold 100 Mavericks last year, without the plant increasing capacity, the dealer should not double the orders to 200.

And I asked several local dealers in Phoenix/Tucson area what their allocations would be and none would share that.

 

[Mav_RICK]

Dealers project sales upon allocations, which has been part of their business planning for years. Of course they have an idea of how many they will receive. For example, if they sold 100 Mavericks last year, without the plant increasing capacity, the dealer should not double the orders to 200.

Ford should tell dealers what their allocations will be and the dealerships should share that with the customer.

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