no, People just need to have the common sense (or decency which ever you prefer) not to post that they received a build date for an order that they just placed with no reservation when people with reservations that have been waiting since day one are still getting fucked by Ford.
I think a lot of people placed orders with big dealers because they believed those big dealers about getting it faster that way. I almost did too, but decided to support my small town Dealership. I will also say that my local dealer is owned and run by good people. So that made the choice much easier.
I ordered from one of the medium size dealerships that had given me a reasonably fair price on a New 2020 F-150. They only had around 400 orders at the time. Cities are allowed to charge sales tax here, and they are also one of the lower sales tax rates.
I would think they have sold more than they had allocated and you were just to far down the list. I would be interested to here what the dealership is saying now. Because if it has been over a year and they still have your deposit, I would be pissed. If over a year, does that mean your order was 2021? How much deposit did you put down?
Order was April of 2021. It's not a year until next week. Missed the price protection cut-off by two weeks.
How much did you put down, and the dealer has been holding?
Thank you for the answer. Makes sense now. So I may have inadvertently got lucky when I placed my order with a larger dealership in an urban area?
I may be going against the grain here (and nothing against you personally), but this sentiment goes against the spirit in which this website was created. I'm new here, but I have no doubt that this place was created so that like-minded people could hang out in a friendly atmosphere and share in the excitement of a new Bronco owner and swap technical advice.
Who on here is blaming a consumer who got lucky? I haven't seen it. But I'm absolutely grumpy much of the time when I see such a thing but yes it's not the poster's fault obviously. We're allowed to feel grumpy same as those who recently ordered and received their bronco are allowed to feel happy.
How does this make any sense? You make it sound like somehow I cheated to get my build. What needs to happen is people to get some thick skin. No one is controlling anything, except ford. It's beyond our control.
Hope you’re not serious
if that were the case, I'd have had mine the next day lol...I live in Houston, the 4th largest city in the US? And there are literally thousands of Jeeps. You can't walk out your front door without seeing a dozen of them drive by.
Reservation or dealer priority absolutely mean something. It’s the preview order at the dealer you ordered from. Ford’s system has been the same for the last 20 years. Reservation just trumps retail priority. They go through the preview in order looking at each dealers no 1 order. Each round preview is 3000 orders, second round 3000 looking at dealer’s #2 orders. Depending on where your dealer lands in the preview, commodities could be gone by the time they preview your order. If the dealer has no allocation or if the commodities are exhausted they just jump that build and the dealer will have the next build in his order previewed the next round. This is all done systematically.
Saying that someone shouldn't post about their new Bronco and keep it a secret out of respect to those who have been waiting a long time is certainly punishing the consumer.
