God damnit. That's my dealer too. I'm number 80 on their waitlist with a 5/20 res date. Hope you can pushback on this. Maybe I should just give up and change dealers now though...
Between a rock and a hard place!
I got my invitation email to place my reservation. I placed my reservation and it went to the dealer (Damerow Ford in Beaverton, OR). I asked the dealer the next day for the purchase agreement. When they sent it, it had what looks like a bogus dealer rep name, customer name was crossed, and they wrote down with a pen a 5k markup on the printed agreement. Apparently once the order goes to the dealer, you can't change your dealer anymore. So I'm left with either excepting their markup, or losing my reservation and place in line. Does anyone know if there's a hidden option number #3? because this is ridiculous!!!
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I also reached out to them myself and asked if they would confirm they are doing an ADM and what it is. Crickets. I hope Ford corporate slaps them in their pee-pees.
I moved to Gresham Ford. Now #41 (instead of #80). Bonus: Interestingly they refunded my reservation deposit but I get to keep the reservation. Nice to have my money back for a while...
Well, they have to doll out the allocations in order of timestamp of when the reservation was placed with one caveat - the first 25 slots they are free to allocate any reservations they wish in any order (for a 200+ reservation dealership). When you get your order email from ford it means that you were next in a place in the dealerships line to order. They can't move you out of the slot once you are selected in a wave, you're already allocated a build. What they probably are doing is slapping the most outrageous ADM on after the fact so that once you finalize your order with them you either have to accept or you decline and lose your reservation slot, and they move on to the next in line to rinse and repeat. I think that if on your online order when you ordered it didn't list an ADM and then they try to send you some picture of a handwritten note adding an ADM after the fact you should fight it. Send it to Ford Moco because this is exactly the kind of sleazy thing they are pulling their hair out trying to prevent.Well said GDN, that's exactly what they did with me. They printed it and hand wrote the ADM. I also do worry about the sincerity of where they place you in their queue. If they say you're #5, what guarantees you that spot. Maybe your "Order Accepted by Dealer" status on Ford's website means your spot is locked in, i don't really know. Otherwise they can simply push the people who they managed to get most ADM from to production when the real allocation comes up.
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