With many dealers now adding ADM to most everything on their lots, you know this is the facts of life. If the Bronco means that much and you don't want to wait until who knows when, buy it at the inflated price. Principle is nice, but that doesn't put a Bronco in your driveway.
Right? Lets not forget that car buying is an adversarial process.. Sometimes a pyrrhic victory is the best we can hope for. I'm a principled man, so I get the other side.. But I'm also vindictive, so there's that.
Yeah but if I essentially made a deal with a guy to sell for 10k, even if we didn't sign our names in blood, I wouldn't hit him with another 5k when he arrived later in the week to pay me and pick up the car.
Keep us posted, I have done my part in getting more attention to this injustice. I swear though there were some haters that kept trying to win the argument with me. Some threatened me with defamation of the dealer and then had my post completely removed. I reposted again on Bronco 6th gen group forum and got more responses the second time around ( BRONCO 6th Gen | 1st-day Reservation Holder greeted with a surprised 10k dealer mark-up on delivery | Facebook ). Really felt like the ones that went back and forth with me over and over were staff/friends of this particular dealer.
are those new orders or dealer inventory? I don't think any of us have issues with inventory cars getting marked up (it is questionable how they got a car for inventory), it's the tossing in of an ADM at closing on a pre-ordered vehicle wehre they dealer produced a sheet showing the pricing at the time of order. Signed or not signed by both parties, delivery by email of that sheet is an inducement to get an order and sets up an expectation that is the price.
It's one thing to have the Dealer's intention (Seller) upfront and disclosed in advance, prior to wasting your time and money ahead of time. For those of you that believe the dealer's ADM mark-up on the day of delivery is justified and acceptable great, for me I cannot accept it as someone I would do business with. The dealer if they intended on doing an ADM should have made it known at the time the reservation was being converted; so the customer knew what he/she was agreeing to purchase. The order sheet is a receipt of the product being purchased at the dealer that the customer selected in the first place. All emails from Ford show that the Bronco was specially built for you by stating "Your Bronco" in its emails and updates. Once again, adding a mark-up upon delivery is the worst business practice there is. Essentially the dealer can add such a mark-up to price you out of your budget. This dealer would have never received Scott's bronco without him reserving it from FORD and then selected this dealer to complete the final transaction. Dealer wants to add $1,500 for the handling of the transfer... great say so during the ordering stage, but 10K at the time of delivery...WTF! We have waited since July 13, 2020, for our Broncos this should not be treated as a regular customer who is car shopping on the dealer's lot.
Dealer inventory.
I couldn't agree more. The whole thing is slimy. I don't see things getting better until dealer lots start filling up again. The customer has to choose what option will work for them. They can pay what the dealer asks, walk away, buy another model/brand etc. I'd walk away and buy something else. That's just me though. Someone will come in right behind me and pay the inflated price instead of having wait. We place our own values on money, pride and principles.
They have 6 listed for sale on their site. Of course, they only list the MSRP of each. SCUM. You should review them on Google as well and reach out to Ford Marketing, as well as tweet the situation, with DCH tagged.
This is bullshit he said on the phone he wouldn't sell to me...there was zero Negotiations at allDCH Ford of Eatontown replied to my one star review. The pressure is on. Do the right thing DCH Ford of Eatontown.
