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For those of you in California that haven't yet joined or seen the posts, we are trying to organize a group-buy agreement and collect names of people that are interested in switching their dealer reservation location. Our efforts are focused on Northern California but anyone interested in switching would be welcome to join in, whether it be Southern California, Nevada, ect. It's a bummer that we still don't have build & price available or concrete information on order dates but the longer we wait the less time we will have to set this up.
Our goals with this effort can be summed up as follows:
1. To speed up our deliveries or at least improve our chances at receiving a Bronco in 2021. Recent info suggests that a large factor in how many Broncos a dealership will receive will be based on the amount of reservations they convert to orders. For example, if a dealership was going to end up with 300 orders and we have a committed group of 50 that place orders, that dealership now has 350 orders, a decent bump to help their allocation numbers.
2. To receive a discount. Everyone knows about the awesome Granger deal and they are getting reservations from all over the country from people willing to ship or travel for their Bronco. While I personally do not think we can get anything like $2000 or $1000 below invoice in NorCal, I hope that we can arrange for something to make it worthwhile for those that participate. Most so far already have X-plan so an agreement to sell at invoice or a little below invoice is likely the best case scenario.
3. To evaluate the quality and customer service of our many dealership options. Some dealerships are slimier than is ideal. They often have the negative image of lying salesmen, poor CS, poor service garages, etc.. In contacting these dealerships and feeling out the willingness of their teams to play ball with us, we hope to share notes on which ones seem cool and which ones don't give a shit about offering good business. Which ones are doing a good job at following Ford's guidelines on this vehicle launch, which ones are being transparent about everything, etc.. If nothing works out and we fail to arrange a worthwhile deal when all is said and done, we would hopefully at least paint a clearer picture of which dealerships are at least on the more pleasant side to work with. This would also be useful for future service needs, accessory purchasing etc..
The document has restricted edit access but can be viewed here: https://bit.ly/3cAfVjm
There is a basic overview tab, a buyer info tab, and a NorCal dealerships tab that are all pulled from Ford.com.
If you would like to join in and haven't already been entered, feel free to leave a message here, send me a private message, or leave a comment on the doc (commenting is allowed, editing is not). I will get you added asap. Please be sure to look at the details for each column and don't miss a category. The purpose of these details is to give any dealers we share this with an idea of what these orders would look like and for us to get an idea of which locations would be more central for everyone once averaged out.
We should be at about 30 people soon and I hope to keep going well beyond that. The Texas group had over 120 last time I checked their doc. Feel free to share the link with other Bronco buyers as well if you think they would be interested.
I could also use some help soon in contacting dealerships by phone or email. There are over 70 in Northern CA, possibly up to 90 depending on how far south we want to cover. Identifying dealerships that are already fairly high in volume and regional rankings would be helpful in prioritizing those locations.
Thanks for reading, I hope we can get these Broncos on the road SOON
Our goals with this effort can be summed up as follows:
1. To speed up our deliveries or at least improve our chances at receiving a Bronco in 2021. Recent info suggests that a large factor in how many Broncos a dealership will receive will be based on the amount of reservations they convert to orders. For example, if a dealership was going to end up with 300 orders and we have a committed group of 50 that place orders, that dealership now has 350 orders, a decent bump to help their allocation numbers.
2. To receive a discount. Everyone knows about the awesome Granger deal and they are getting reservations from all over the country from people willing to ship or travel for their Bronco. While I personally do not think we can get anything like $2000 or $1000 below invoice in NorCal, I hope that we can arrange for something to make it worthwhile for those that participate. Most so far already have X-plan so an agreement to sell at invoice or a little below invoice is likely the best case scenario.
3. To evaluate the quality and customer service of our many dealership options. Some dealerships are slimier than is ideal. They often have the negative image of lying salesmen, poor CS, poor service garages, etc.. In contacting these dealerships and feeling out the willingness of their teams to play ball with us, we hope to share notes on which ones seem cool and which ones don't give a shit about offering good business. Which ones are doing a good job at following Ford's guidelines on this vehicle launch, which ones are being transparent about everything, etc.. If nothing works out and we fail to arrange a worthwhile deal when all is said and done, we would hopefully at least paint a clearer picture of which dealerships are at least on the more pleasant side to work with. This would also be useful for future service needs, accessory purchasing etc..
The document has restricted edit access but can be viewed here: https://bit.ly/3cAfVjm
There is a basic overview tab, a buyer info tab, and a NorCal dealerships tab that are all pulled from Ford.com.
If you would like to join in and haven't already been entered, feel free to leave a message here, send me a private message, or leave a comment on the doc (commenting is allowed, editing is not). I will get you added asap. Please be sure to look at the details for each column and don't miss a category. The purpose of these details is to give any dealers we share this with an idea of what these orders would look like and for us to get an idea of which locations would be more central for everyone once averaged out.
We should be at about 30 people soon and I hope to keep going well beyond that. The Texas group had over 120 last time I checked their doc. Feel free to share the link with other Bronco buyers as well if you think they would be interested.
I could also use some help soon in contacting dealerships by phone or email. There are over 70 in Northern CA, possibly up to 90 depending on how far south we want to cover. Identifying dealerships that are already fairly high in volume and regional rankings would be helpful in prioritizing those locations.
Thanks for reading, I hope we can get these Broncos on the road SOON
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