This is not right.

[gte105u]

If a dealer actually has 3 trucks on the lot (which isn't certain many show stock they don't have) its not Ford to be mad at. The dealer may be shady. The customers ordered and didn't buy (thus taking a build slot away from someone else). Ford's just filling orders.

I'd be frustrated in OP's shoes, but the bigger concern to me would be what the heck is going on with that dealer that 3 unicorns are on the lot at the same time... Concerning if I was hoping to buy one from them.

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[Kynno]

Thank you, thats the way i understand it but it seems that others on this forum think I am wrong about allocations .

 

[Kynno]

If a dealer actually has 3 trucks on the lot (which isn't certain many show stock they don't have) its not Ford to be mad at. The dealer may be shady. The customers ordered and didn't buy (thus taking a build slot away from someone else). Ford's just filling orders.

I'd be frustrated in OP's shoes, but the bigger concern to me would be what the heck is going on with that dealer that 3 unicorns are on the lot at the same time... Concerning if I was hoping to buy one from them.

Exactly ,I am also mad at ford for giving dealers the right to do this. The dealers are acting as fords showroom.

 

[22Ford XL Basic]

My dealer has 3 trucks on the lot 5k over MRSP --one of them includes 3 "constraint" items -2 are identical to my order except color.This is not right.

 

[Kynno]

I would buy one ,but not with a 5k markup when i put a deposit down in good faith for an order i placed on the first hour of the window.

 

[22Ford XL Basic]

My dealer advertised my truck months before it arrived 11 months after my order.
When it came in the dealer modified it without my permission making it illegal in my state. I instructed them to remove this modification, they refused and sold it to someone else for $8 K more. Then returned my deposit and payment.
Ford ignored my multiple letters and emails.
Who could ever trust this dealer and Ford.

 

[Kynno]

First off, there were several thousand MY22 orders that did not get built - some were rolled over to MY23's when FORD decided that they couldn't build all the orders that were placed. In November there were about 7,000 (if I remember correctly) orders that had been given build dates and VIN #'s that FORD decided they couldn't build in a reasonable time - these orders were all then cancelled and re-entered as MY23 orders by FORD. Truthfully, FORD should not have opened the order banks in September for the MY23's as they hadn't even come close to building all the MY22's - and there were so many orders placed in September that they closed the order banks after about four days or so. So in all likelihood, the 3 trucks you say your dealer has on the lot are special order MY22 carry-overs that didn't get built (converted to MY23's) and with such a long wait the original buyers decided not to take them. If you read through this forum you'll find many, many folks that have been waiting 400+ days and still don't have a truck - including me (480 days). FORD also had a requirement that all these orders had to be sold to the person that ordered them, so the likelihood that dealers had their staff order trucks for stock probably didn't happen very often. Supposedly doing this could impact a dealer's allocations. Any trucks that weren't claimed by the person that ordered them then became available for the dealer to sell at whatever price they thought they could get.

Thanks ,I get all that ,so people like you are waiting a year and a half and dealers will sell the same truck you ordered to quadruple their profit. Free market is great ,if I did that in my contracting business its called a rip off.

 

[Kynno]

My dealer advertised my truck months before it arrived 11 months after my order.
When it came in the dealer modified it without my permission making it illegal in my state. I instructed them to remove this modification, they refused and sold it to someone else for $8 K more. Then returned my deposit and payment.
Ford ignored my multiple letters and emails.
Who could ever trust this dealer and Ford.

Listen to some people on this thread , that cant happen and if it does ,its a free market.
But I'm the uneducated one.

 

[Mav_RICK]

If customer cancels order before scheduling then the right thing for the dealer to do is cancel order. Otherwise everything else is fair game.

 

[jahl]

It carries little weight if the dealer puts ALL their orders in as 10's, but FORD looks at priority 10 orders first, then goes to 11, then 12, etc. You are right that priority doesn't mean much to FORD, but it does mean something to an individual dealer - they can control which orders get looked at by FORD for scheduling consideration.

EDIT: this is based on the assumption that the dealer actually has an allocation for an order. If they don't, priority 10 doesn't mean a dang thing.

OP stated that all Maverick orders at his dealer are PC 12.

 

[JimParker256]

Exactly ,I am also mad at ford for giving dealers the right to do this. The dealers are acting as fords showroom.

Exactly! That is what a dealership is, my friend. Ford doesn't have showrooms - dealers do. Ford doesn't have service departments - dealers do. Ford doesn't sell vehicles to consumers - dealers do.

It carries little weight if the dealer puts ALL their orders in as 10's, but once Ford has an allocation for a build spot assigned to a specific dealership, FORD looks at priority 10 orders within that dealership's orders first to see if the components to build that truck are available, then goes to 11, then 12, etc. You are right that priority doesn't mean much to FORD, but it does mean something to an individual dealer - they can control which orders get looked at by FORD for scheduling consideration.

EDIT: this is based on the assumption that the dealer actually has an allocation for an order. If they don't, priority 10 doesn't mean a dang thing.

I inserted what I believe to be a couple of important points (in bold red italics) in your explanation above... The dealer has to have an available allocation before their internal priority queue even gets looked at.

 

[jahl]

****We hear far too often the dealer saying "someone backed out of the deal" and they now have a Mav available. BS! What we don't see is the reason someone backed out. Too often the deal changed from the time of the order and the original buyer told the dealership to go pound sand.

Do you think a customer should have the right to back out of the order, or do you think customers should be obligated to buy the vehicle they ordered with penalties for not doing so?

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