$500 Additional Required Ford deposit - Coming at order time!

[Cheshire]

Just had a long conversation with someone in the know about reservations, orders, etc. We got to discussing dealer penalties if a customer doesn't take delivery of their ordered Bronco. Rumor has it that to remedy this problem and weed out the non-serious buyers among us, Ford will require an additional refundable deposit of $500 to create our Bronco orders.

This makes sense to me and I've been surprised so far that we only need $100 for a reservation. I'm glad to put another $500 down and would be so even if it was non-refundable.

What do you guys think? Is it true? Will you care if it is true?

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[Headsong]

Yeah, so?

 

[Lilj4425]

I think I need another beer.

 

[jonwithanelcamino]

You may get some smirks. This has been discussed at length for months across 10’s of posts with many diff options.

I have no strong opinion on this .
Good luck.

 

[Bullseye]

Just take my money and get on with it.

 

[jjack50]

It has already been made clear that any additional deposit is to be determined by the dealer. Ford is not going to be requiring any additional deposit.

 

[VTBronco]

Just had a long conversation with someone in the know about reservations, orders, etc. We got to discussing dealer penalties if a customer doesn't take delivery of their ordered Bronco. Rumor has it that to remedy this problem and weed out the non-serious buyers among us, Ford will require an additional refundable deposit of $500 to create our Bronco orders.

This makes sense to me and I've been surprised so far that we only need $100 for a reservation. I'm glad to put another $500 down and would be so even if it was non-refundable.

What do you guys think? Is it true? Will you care if it is true?

My dealer mentioned this a while ago, I’m also happy to put down some cash. If it’s refundable too, if I hate it (who am I kidding, that’s crazy talk I will LOVE it), then even better.

 

[Stroopaloop]

Just had a long conversation with someone in the know about reservations, orders, etc. We got to discussing dealer penalties if a customer doesn't take delivery of their ordered Bronco. Rumor has it that to remedy this problem and weed out the non-serious buyers among us, Ford will require an additional refundable deposit of $500 to create our Bronco orders.

This makes sense to me and I've been surprised so far that we only need $100 for a reservation. I'm glad to put another $500 down and would be so even if it was non-refundable.

What do you guys think? Is it true? Will you care if it is true?

I'm all in baybee gurl. gimme my Mall-squatch!

 

[Lcubed]

the keyword is rumor. the devil is in the details.

 

[VTBronco]

I'm all in baybee gurl. gimme my Mall-squatch!

I can’t help thinking of the GMC holiday commercial.

“I got us a little something too- one for you...and one for me.”
“I LOVE IT”

 

[wolfpackinva]

Up to the dealer. Some requiring none. Some requiring $500. I've seen some requiring $1000.

 

[AcesandEights]

I recently had an experience "trying to" buying a boat. The dealer wanted a non-refundable deposit and wouldn't guarantee I'd get the boat this year. He stated I'd be in the queue. I asked how that could be and his response was that they were making up customer names and applying them to orders because if they ordered "customer" boats the factory allocated them faster and the dealership could sell every boat they could get. So, basically they made up customer orders to get more boats than other dealers so they could advertise inventory and pull customers from dealers that couldn't get as many boats. He said he'd "fit me in" with the fake customers, but couldn't guarantee my specific configuration would come in first or when it would come in relative to the "fake" customer orders. He was just trying to sell boats and said that this year was the highest selling year he'd had in years. He told me he'd sell every boat he could get so it didn't matter if I bought from him or not, he'd still get and sell every boat he could get allocated.

Long-winded story, but basically what I see is Ford doing their best to make sure reservation holders get their vehicles and those that are not serious don't clog the system with vehicles not allocated to a customer. So, we don't have some percentage of vehicles "bumping" a serious customer so that the dealer gets a vehicle they can mark up. Works for me. I'm happy to put another $500 (1%) toward a $50k vehicle I'm buying anyway.

 

[618TRVLWILD]

My Dealership only asked for an extra hundy...but they asked for a grand I would of gave it to them! js...

Bc well I'm serial!!! Haha serial for a bronco! ?

 

[srick76]

Just had a long conversation with someone in the know about reservations, orders, etc. We got to discussing dealer penalties if a customer doesn't take delivery of their ordered Bronco. Rumor has it that to remedy this problem and weed out the non-serious buyers among us, Ford will require an additional refundable deposit of $500 to create our Bronco orders.

This makes sense to me and I've been surprised so far that we only need $100 for a reservation. I'm glad to put another $500 down and would be so even if it was non-refundable.

What do you guys think? Is it true? Will you care if it is true?

I'm sure it is. You cant order any car without a deposit. I ordered a convert mustang in 99, had to leave $500 or 1K if I remember right.

 

[Bronco4lyfe85]

I’m in the camp of how does a refundable $500 make anyone more serious? If you can order and cancel and get your money back, who cares? I’ll give $500, whatever.

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