Option 5) Buy the Maverick, take very good notes on everything, record every conversation with them (Hawaii does have a single party consent law) then take them to small claims court after the sale on fraud charges. Also file a complaint with the FTC & BBB. See if the local TV stations are...
You should have included a "New and improved" version of email notices as a 3rd poll option:
The biggest problem and complaint is not hearing anything from Ford for MONTHS in between order confirmation and scheduling.
HEY @Ford Motor Company how about this: Send Maverick order folks an email ONCE EVERY MONTH! Tell us what the estimated date is for when it will get scheduled and then once it does get scheduled you can keep sending the info you have been already. IT'S A TOTAL SHAME THAT PEOPLE WAIT FOR MONTHS...
How about: "You're currently #85 out of 125 current undelivered orders at your dealership. You're estimated scheduled build date is xx Month Year at the current build and allocation rate (which can change). Constrained items include: Spray in bed liner, Hybrid, CoPilot360, etc. Removal of those...
I did a DM with specific suggestions on how to improve their communications. They need to fill in the gap between Order Confirmation and Scheduling. Seems like after it gets scheduled they do OK on updates. No reply yet.
Ordered on 1/18, confirmed 1/25. The dealer said I was #84 out of 125 Maverics ordered which means they had 41 orders in the week+ time after they announced the end.
Larry Miller Super Ford in Salt Lake City.
Downtown SLC. My dealer rep told me allocations are per dealer per month. I believe they also change with how many orders the dealer has. I'm hoping they will tell me how old the oldest order is and how many have received VIN's so far. That would go a long way to estimating how long I might have...
LHM just informed me that they have 125 Mavericks on order, all custom, no stock.
I'm #84 which was ordered on 1/15/22 indicating that they had 41 ordered in that last couple of weeks.
(Larry H Miller is the biggest dealer in Salt Lake City and likely Utah and much of the mountain west for that...
There are around 650 duplicates!!! (some of which are actually triplicates or greater)
Who's in charge of this database?? It has a lot of other errors and bad information.