I want to know when they told you that dealer allocations and various other factors were non-factors. When did they ever say that reservation order is the sole factor in determining who’s order gets built?
That's a sweet build and a SCORE for you! I admit, the fact that you are getting a 2 door built is shocking (and with supposed constraints). I thought most of the builds getting built from orders off the street were 4 door soft tops. I didn't reserve till July 2021, so I'm not as invested as most others here.
I did ask about allocations and for more or less they said it does not really matter, I don't really understand the whole allocation thing so I didn't press further and apparently it didn't really matter in my case anyway. I also asked about how many people were ahead of me with orders and she said there were a lot of reservations ahead of me that had yet to receive a build date.
We are all victims of Ford's allocation system. Big dealers are more important than customers.
Thanks for the info. FWIW, a lot of us think we understand the allocation system, but we really have no clue I think.
There seems to be so many variables that there's not really any way to make sense of who's going to get an build date and when and for what reasons. Size of the dealer, how many allocations, build commodity restraints. I've seen everything from doing all the right builds with a larger dealer and not getting a build date and going against the grain on everything and getting a build date. I know I very well may be pushed back from my 1/24/22 build week but at least I'm in the system and they can only kick that can down the road for so long before it makes it's way down the assembly line
I can relate......only mine wasn't a basic build. The first one I saw was demo in Canada.
The way this process is going, this may be my one and only Ford purchase. I have owned many GM trucks, and was thinking about giving the F-150 a try, but the longer this goes on, and the more of this I see, the more I talk myself out of the Ford Truck.
I wouldn't say they made it clear from the beginning. But I have to be honest I can't blame Ford because they have tried to be transparent, although would've liked if they explained the whole allocation a little better.
That’s because they quietly changed the Terms and Conditions after initial reservations went in.I wouldn't say they made it clear from the beginning. But I have to be honest I can't blame Ford because they have tried to be transparent, although would've liked if they explained the whole allocation a little better.
10/2/2020 (although they didn't say the timestamp was the only factor, but I think the whole "reservation timestamp" mentioned made alot of people put a lot of weight on it) :
12/15/2020 (first time I saw reference to allocation being a factor, but would've been helpful to understand it a little more when selecting the dealers) :
