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Originally Posted by Draco
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.
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Ugh. Unfair to the dealers? Enthusiasts are enthusiasts, enthusiasts are everywhere-- not just cities-- and bigger dealers are getting bigger allocations of these cars, or so it seems. Unallocated cars are showing up on Carsales all the time and disappearing just as fast as people cancel orders and jump on them, paying the extra money. Meanwhile, people who ordered within a week of the car going live are still waiting. Hell, some people who ordered before the car went live are still waiting. It's not just because I'm waiting-- Like I said I'm not unhappy waiting, what I'm unhappy about is the fact that some people are getting their cars before others who ordered as much as a month after.
My local dealership is unhappy that they keep getting overlooked and cars are getting delivered elsewhere unallocated-- they've gotten a grand total of one unallocated car so far. I should have just bought that one, even though it was my least favourite colour. Oh well. Serves me right for ordering something I wanted.
In a FIFO model the cities wouldn't get cars first just "because cities", dude. There were people lined up deposit-wise everywhere. First orders should allocate to first deliveries, not "whenever an allocation and an order line up", especially when the car is this goddamn early-allocated in advance. This allocation system is thoroughly, thoroughly broken.