2005-2009 Mustang Information on The S197 {Gen1}

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Old 11/10/04, 09:29 AM
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I had a dealership tell me that Ford appears to be taking sold orders regardless of allocation. Any truth to that?
Old 11/10/04, 09:47 AM
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It is probably true, just because of the number of preorders.
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you mean pulling orders to be built even if the dealership currently does not have an allocation?
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Yep, that's what the dealer said. Wasn't sure if that was more BS just to get me to place an order or not.
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We can place all the orders we want, but they won't get pulled until we have available allocation. The allocation gets earned by turning inventory, the more you sell the more you get. This is one of the biggest reasons we sell them as heavily discounted as we do. We want to build our travel rate.

Our current allocation is sold and we have two more sold and in the order bank that we don't yet have allocation for. We hope that when Ford allocates units next time around that they take into account that we have some sold retail orders waiting.

To answer your question, yes Ford will take the orders, get them allocated and built is the problem.

Paul
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Why does Ford play the allocation game? If a dealer has a sold order, why not build the thing, ship it and convert it into cash ?

I don't get it...it is pre-sold....why make the customer wait for an allcation? seems rather arbitrary.

What am I missing?? :scratch:




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