Oh yeah I wouldn't expect that from Granger or anyone else who's been super engaged or knowledgeable here or elsewhere. But for the other's... IDK.
I'm just trying to assess my risk as well as an intellectual curiosity. If I have my res at a dealer I don't like at MSRP but I know is going to be fair and truthful when it comes to pricing, vs an unknown dealer who says I can save 1k...
If I had any real assurance that they wouldn't play games with numbers at delivery, awesome! I can save myself a thousand bucks. But without it, there's a risk
Sorry for all this btw. I don't want to come of negative at all. Nature of my profession, it's close to red teaming for any techies here. Figure out how something works, look to exploit it, report findings so someone doesn't get exploited.
It's hard to turn off though. I never realized that until my wife and I were touring hospitals to figure out where to deliver my first born. They were explaining how the security system works so no baby is accidentally swapped or stolen from the hospital... And in my head the gears were spinning on how to pull off a baby heist. I had to actively tell my brain to shut up because Lord knows it was the last thing my wife wanted to hear from me ?
There is a risk in everything, but at time of ordering you and the dealer sign a document with an agreed upon price. This is a legal contract. If the dealer changes anything you can walk or pursue recourse to try and either get them to honor the contract or seek compensation for the broken agreement.
This contract alone doesn't stop a dealer from playing games and trying to get you to walk but as Granger and others have stated FoMoCo has stated there will be penalties for too many orders being delivered to somebody other than the ordering individual. My guess, because nobody has leaked the penalties as far as I know, is they probably include allocation reductions on Bronco and other vehicles. Possibly increases in the interest rate a dealership gets charged for vehicles on the lot. Possibly even changes to holdback percentages. All of these are points that could cause a dealership lots of financial pain in the future. Those are my best guesses there could be loads of other places that FoMoCo could bring pain to dealerships that don't honor contracts.
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