There is no telling when you will get scheduled. If you ordered from a large dealer with plenty of allocations you could get scheduled before the rollover orders. I have been waiting for 380 days and still waiting. The system is not fair, but that's the way it works.
Now, you are "forced" into flipping something to recover the private offer. If you don't take the rollover when it comes in, you're out the money. It's too bad the system has to work like this. With today's technology, the middleman's time to go has arrived.
Amen. Time for dealerships to be "reatailers" like an apple store, or something to that effect. One of everything they sell to get a "test drive" and feel for it, with experts to answer questions. Then if you want something, you order your spec and a new, untouched product shows up from the manufacturer, with a price tag that's always the same. And you take it back to the same place for fixes/replacements. The dealership games are so tired, they need a ground-up rethink.
If Ford really have a rodent’s behind, the price protection would have gone to the individual without the stipulation to remain at the original dealership. Suppose it’s is their way of protecting the dealership and ensuring they get their share of the business….while holding the consumer hostage.
MY24
I ordered the same in the first day the books opened and my dealer told me I'm #2 in line for ecoboost.
I had an existing relationship with my rural sales rep and I committed to an order with him a couple months ahead of the books opening. I was #1 in line with no rollovers and about as simple an order as you can do. That's about as many scheduling advantages as you can get and I still will be lucky to get my truck before Christmas.
What do they do with an exhausted item like mud flaps, delay the build or delete the item and build/ship it anyway?
They will not ship an incomplete truck, nor will they modify your build.
