Smaller Dealer - Order Allocations ?

[Platinum2]

Curious if anyone with knowledge can share how production of a customer order is allocated for lower volume dealers. It would appear Ford is building for higher volume dealers at this point? For those of us who ordered through a lower volume dealer would our production dates be much later, say Dec., Jan, etc.? Not clear on this...

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[Rexus99]

Curious if anyone with knowledge can share how production of a customer order is allocated for lower volume dealers. It would appear Ford is building for higher volume dealers at this point? For those of us who ordered through a lower volume dealer would our production dates be much later, say Dec., Jan, etc.? Not clear on this...

This is only a feeling but I was contacted by a larger dealer in June about a Maverick I had build and reserved on the Ford website and he told me it would be spring before i got it. I immediately called and started the same build with a small dealer. This was ordered July 2nd and is scheduled for production the week of Sept. 20. I feel like production is also a function of dealer allotment among many other variables. Just a feeling.....

 

[Platinum2]

This is only a feeling but I was contacted by a larger dealer in June about a Maverick I had build and reserved on the Ford website and he told me it would be spring before i got it. I immediately called and started the same build with a small dealer. This was ordered July 2nd and is scheduled for production the week of Sept. 20. I feel like production is also a function of dealer allotment among many other variables. Just a feeling.....

So basically, it could go either way? I can't imagine the allotment at my local dealer is large. I also don't feel they have taken too many Maverick orders either.....

 

[Down]

So basically, it could go either way? I can't imagine the allotment at my local dealer is large. I also don't feel they have taken too many Maverick orders either.....

From what I've absorbed so far, "it could go either way". It seems that build order is at least partly created using black magic.

 

[grumpyunk]

This is only a feeling but I was contacted by a larger dealer in June about a Maverick I had build and reserved on the Ford website and he told me it would be spring before i got it. I immediately called and started the same build with a small dealer. This was ordered July 2nd and is scheduled for production the week of Sept. 20. I feel like production is also a function of dealer allotment among many other variables. Just a feeling.....

I wonder if the larger dealer was planning on taking your order, and shuffling it to the bottom of the stack, so he could sell your order as a 'stock' unit, with signifcant ADM and 'MSRP++' price. When a model is in high demand, the dealers often become more profit hungry, and pack the retail as much as they can. "make hay while the sun shines' is an old saw, but it can blow back and cause a bitter taste in the customer such that the ill-will created is very destructive to the dealer. Personally, they deserve it. Treat the customer with respect, rather than as someone to extort.
Larger dealers will get larger allotments over a given time period. It does not make any sense to starve a smaller dealer as you may put them out of business by catering to large dealers only. You may get a lot better treatment from a smaller dealer, and may get a slightly different offer, based upon overhead and sales. Some smaller dealers operate on a lot smaller margin as they can control their fixed expenses by not having a extravagant showroom/shop, and a large sales staff. There was a dealership in LaGrange, IN, that had a showroom with space for only 1 car. Don't know if it is still open. The rent must have been very reasonable...
tom

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