Bro, MAS is just PX Carvana.
The only difference between MAS and a brick and mortar dealer is just that; brick and mortar. They still have salesmen who do the same job. They still have very regimented inventory order systems. Been switching between title 10 and title 32 orders for the last 8 years, don’t make the mistake of assuming I have no idea how DoD contracting works. MAS is NOT prioritized over hard stand dealerships. Additionally, USAA owns the vehicle now that hasn’t been delivered. They don’t care when it’ll be built, because they’re not driving it everyday. So if something happens between now and the time it eventually ends up in your driveway in 3 decades like everybody else, you’re screwed just the same. It will be a nightmare to retract that loan. The MAS 30 day prior payment to delivery requirement exists because that’s assuming it’s already built and in transit. Key word; in transit. Or, you write a contract while you’re deployed with reasonable assumption that the vehicle will be ready to pick up by the time you get back. Just like my dealership; I’m TDY at the moment, and will be for about a month after mine was expected to arrive at the dealership. My dealer is just storing it out of sight of the general public for that month, much like MAS does with their layaway warehouse allocations with manufacturers.
The whole situation is like comparing car shopping to sitting down at a restaurant.
No parts? “Sorry ma’am, we don’t have any more steak tonight, could we make you fried chicken instead?”
Taking a while to deliver your food to your table?
“Sir, I just wanted to let you know that your food is almost done, but we are short on waitresses tonight. Let me get you a drink refill in the meantime.”
At a restaurant, you do not pay the waitress her tip in advance, nor do you pay for the food in advance. Because a lot could happen between the time you enter the restaurant and the time you leave the restaurant. The same applies for carbuying. I too am going through USAA for my loan, but I’m waiting to get verbal confirmation from my dealer that my bronco is on a truck and heading that way before I set up the pre-approval. That way I don’t fuck up my credit score, I don’t lose a very large sum of money I have saved as a down payment, and I am not stuck without a contingency plan (aka a new vehicle to replace my current shitbox) if it all goes south because I paid for a ghost, and I’m not fighting with a bank to try and retract a legal obligation of thousands of dollars because I deploy or go on overseas TDY again before my bronco gets out of MAP.
I don’t want to lecture you because I’m not your mother. But come on. MAS did what any other dealer can do, meanwhile they cannot, nor will not, move mountains at MAP because Ford can’t conjure properly functioning parts out of thin air for people who already worked out/ followed through with contracts at their dealer. I am still on track to receive a MY21 like many others but now I’m going to be absolutely screwed because I’m probably deploying right before it eventually arrives. So it’ll sit in a storage unit for a year, and there’s not shit I can do about it because Ford gave me a vin and had it on the production line RIGHT before they announced yet another delay. Had I known this was coming, I would’ve pushed my order back and waited for a MY22/23.
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