Here starts the dealer games

[DEC]

I think I would back right into that thing on the way out.

Oops, sorry about your bronco. Good luck selling it now.

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[Butzy]

I've come to realize that dealerships don't like when things escalate in their showrooms when there are customers there. I'd make a scene

 

[Philvis77]

And to think that used cars salesmen have a bad reputation...

 

[BenderSquatch]

One thing's for sure! The Facebook author doesn't know where the period (.) key is on their keyboard! That's for certain!

It's Facebook, so the rage is more important than the grammatical norms and standards.

 

[Pibblemobile]

Dealerships that do this give the good ones a bad name. You will make more in the long run if you treat customers fairly. Word of mouth is huge and you will get plenty of business by doing the right thing. The 1 and done dealers don’t last long.

 

[CyberBronco]

Came across this post on a 6th Gen FB page. Hope everyone got a signed purchase agreement when they ordered their bronco.

Not acceptable. Ford should address

 

[2021badlands bronco bob]

I wonder how the people that put down hundreds or thousands down for a DEPOSIT are doing with dealership that well hold there money for more than a year because of the hard top problems. I can just hear the dealership saying “ we told you NON Refundable“.

 

[Permaxyz]

Came across this post on a 6th Gen FB page. Hope everyone got a signed purchase agreement when they ordered their bronco.

Contact Ford Motor Company ASAP.

 

[Rednek]

Just go there with a dump load of manure and load em up with all the horseshit they deserve,Hmmm my brother inlaw lives there

 

[Rednek]

yep dealer

 

[Monster1926]

I wonder how the people that put down hundreds or thousands down for a DEPOSIT are doing with dealership that well hold there money for more than a year because of the hard top problems. I can just hear the dealership saying “ we told you NON Refundable“.

Check the state laws on deposits. Many instances you can get it back.

 

[BenderSquatch]

I came across this the other night because it turns out the person that got screwed over was a friend of a friend.

My biggest issue when hearing about it was that the person is a young woman in her mid to late 20s. She’s definitely no hardcore Bronco enthusiast that followed online forums that warned about this shit. I’m almost certain that she’s never ordered a vehicle as opposed to just being a walk-in customer.

I haven’t been able to get the details on how her reservation and order process went, but she did share a text string with me that showed the salesman telling her the day of pickup that there were walk-in customers with “insane offers for it” and that his managers were telling him there would be ADM of $10k. The text with the additional markup literally follows her text that she’d be at the dealership soon. Then when she got to financing the ADM shot up to $20k!

Definitely would have been harder to pull this shit on a dude. I know I would have been livid and parked my ass in the Bronco and let everyone know what they were trying to pull.

We should all bombard Ford social media and customer relations accounts with complaints about Grand Prairie Ford. How dare they take advantage of a customer like that? Coz she's a woman? Ford has already promised MSRP freeze for two more model years.

 

[NotApplicable]

Dealer games started in 2000 BCE

 

[Bronco4lyfe85]

Thank god I went with Granger, I don’t trust any dealers at all. I would absolutely fucking lose my mind on someone. I can’t even fathom how bad my reaction would be if someone told me this.

 

[rtaylor]

I think turning this into an indictment on the reservation holder for not getting a signed price as opposed to a verbal agreement instead of where the blame belongs (firmly on the greedy dealership) tends to add legitimacy to these integrity-challenged dealerships and condone them stealing the reservation by in essence pricing him out of his own order.

The dealership allocation model leads some dealerships to believe that they own the vehicle and should be able to do whatever they please with it (which is true to some extent). The dealer may have decided that the original deal is void since it was changed to soft top. This happened to me once and I paid a $500 extortion fee (the dealer went bankrupt shortly thereafter).

Ford should severely punish that dealership with a drastic cut to their 2022 allocation of all vehicles. Zero sounds like a fair allocation for them.

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