Recent content by stratego

Always contact state regulators when a car dealership does something illegal. They get away with it because nobody reports.

Under california law, it is illegal for them not to offer to sell it to you at the lowest advertised price. Ask them to buy at the price online: https://www.thelemonlawcalifornia.com/car-dealer-fraud/selling-cars-for-more-than-advertised-prices/vehicle-code-section-11713-1/#Sub_(e) Especially...

Mechanical stuff is way less reliable than solid-state electronics, so no this will never happen. It's also typically way more expensive to manufacture/integrate.

You paid a lower price because of the current auto model where OEMs fill lots and have to put cash on the hood (rebates + incentives) to move the cars. Those days are probably not coming back. Customers strongly strongly dislike experiences where they pay more/less than other people for no...

I think most people here would prefer a system like Tesla uses where the distribution is somewhat fair: a down payment reserves your place in a regional/national line at a given MSRP. The allocation system Ford uses locks vehicles to certain dealers that can abuse market position. In Europe the...

I work for an OEM without dealers and the guy is not wrong. Getting rid of dealers is insanely difficult. Your average millionaire in a small town is a car dealer owner, and there are also large, F500 companies that own chains of dealers. They are not going to let their investments go to...

Ford is not a passive participant, they always have the backs of dishonest dealers granting them allocations over dealers like Granger who "unfairly" win business via every day low pricing.

Take note everybody: Ford will always side with the dealer and help them screw you. If you are an honest dealer, Ford will cut your allocations to give more cars to less-honest dealers.

When dealers do stuff like this, report them to the FTC every time. The FTC absolutely enforces deceptive pricing against individual dealers all the time. Also report them to Illinois State Car Dealer Licensing authorities. Many people will say it does nothing, but when the eye of sauron...

Bring this to Ford's attention 100%. Deceptive business practices like this are against the dealer's franchise agreement. Mike Levine won't do anything substantial, he doesn't raise a finger against Ford dealers ever.

Dealers aren't going to stand by and let Ford directly connect customers with Raptor allocations.

Also, what Bronco6g members should do is a classic tactic of dealing with ebay scalpers: waste as much of their time as possible and use fake offers to potentially screw over their opportunity to deal legitimately. Send them fake offers for increasing amounts over MSRP. They will believe they...

I don't care, if the moderation team allowed it, I would post a bunch of *actually* legally actionable statements about Fremont Ford and its staff. Otherwise, posting factual events/accusations about a business or person is 100% legal in the USA.

Nope. I just went to another dealer. Ford offered an obviously unhelpful “solution” of helping me find a new dealership.

They did the same thing to me, they are just a bad dealership. Nobody should order from them. Morgan Hill ford is in the area and is A great dealership