I don't get how a company will take orders on a product that they know they cannot provide even if you order 13 months in advance, and then say you have to reorder that product 12 months later at a higher price if you still want it. However, no guarantee the exact same thing won't happen again.
One would think they would have limited orders on said product, and then open up the ordering again later in the model year if they can build more than originally thought.
Maybe instead of focusing on DEI training, their management should visit the Japanese or Korean automakers and see how they run an automobile company.
I completely agree with your thoughts on this, but my biggest thing grinding my gears is this dealership allocation system. For custom orders, I feel that they should make their own system of priority and time stamp or whatever to figure out whos gets built in what order, but they will get built no matter how big or small of a dealership you bought it from nor how many allocations they get.
This biggest issue that bugs me is this... lets say they only sold 50k custom ordered Mavericks, but are going to be able to build 100k in the year... there is a high chance I wont get my vehicle built if I purchased it at a dealer who does not get many allocations and had a bunch of people out of the blue place an order for the Maverick because it was such a hit. Unless Ford bypasses the allocation system to get the vehicles built to the ones who ordered it because they have the parts, etc... if dealership A gets 1 a month and had 15 people order...the year is sold out plus some. But yet Ford can build all of them plus others, but you just happened to go to the wrong dealership that used up all of their allocations already.
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