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Originally Posted by Nezz
I'm the fifth order at the dealership including pre-orders. I don't quite see how that can be fair to them exactly (so far they're up to 3 of 5 cars, according to a quick phonecall).
Long story short, FIFO would be fairer for everybody, including dealers and salespeople, because it means a lot less people would cancel.
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I don't work at a dealership but I think you're probably missing a few points. In a FIFO model, this would heavily disadvantage rural dealers with fewer orders and probably later. Dealers are only paid upon delivery of the vehicle but they have up front costs e.g. demo, training staff, the sales staff salaries rental etc. Now if it was FIFO and there was 1000 city orders before theirs, they would not get paid for say 12 months. Imagine the viability of this business model (not very viable) and some dealers may simply chose to not sell this car which Toyota would not want.