Are you just calling the dealership and they are sharing this information or are you using a different way?
I’m going to laugh my butt off if I get my Base before you get your FE!
I understand it, that was just an entitled statement. I hope he gets his FE tomorrow but don’t be smug about it. I have a day 1 reservation and am glad to see anyone getting theires.
nope..time stamp works nationally, allocation to each dealership is based upon the timestamp and how many conversions the dealer made .I originally was 3rd at my first dealer..who received 23 allocations (non priority) , only the 2 priority units got build dates,..nobody else yet. I think there are 2 FE’s
It has been said on this forum by ford employees that location is considered in the equation for two things: 1) batch delivery preference so that they're shipping multiple vehicles to the same geographic area, likely a full vehicle carrier, and 2) where there is a lot of competition (i.e. Jeeps and 4runners). The competition thing might be about dealership allocation numbers, but that in itself effects when/if someone gets a build date and vin.
I distinctly remember seeing a large number of badlands builds in the people like me that reported getting a build date in the 5/27 email.
could be ..can’t remember, but im on a group buy, we are tracking our build dates, and not many badlands getting built yet.
Yes, they are sending them to the South first because they know the warm weather in the North ends in October so Bronco owners won't be able to enjoy them.
Nope, that was what Ford had stated when taking money for reservations, later they added allocations and those are the first item that must be satisfied. That turned one big line into 3000 smaller lines. Ford goes to the next allocation on their list, don't forget, dealers are their actual customers, and then looks at time stamps for only that dealer when looking for a possible build. Once they fill (whatever number of allocations they decide to fill for that dealer in the round), then they move to the next dealer with an allocation on their list. Of course there are less constrained items available at that point, so the first six dealers on the list might get two BL's each while the seventh dealer gets none (instead getting a less complicated build), regardless of if the time stamp of the BL orders at the seventh dealer might be earlier than all of the first six. That is why there will be many later reservation orders filled before all the early ones. If they went time stamp first, the allocations would be meaningless as they would all get filled in time-stamp order. Thus some dealers with an oversized share of early reservations would get most orders filled while other dealers get only a couple. Allocations were added to spread them around geographically despite time stamps. Dealers like Granger with big numbers of orders will be the last of the reservation orders to be built. It is how Ford rewarded their traditional bigger dealers without having them have to compete as hard for the sales.
