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Originally Posted by Nezz
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.
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I thought the whole point was allocations where shared between dealerships regardless of size. i.e. some dealers will have unallocated cars due to their low sales.
Therefore my example of how i see it working is something like city dealer gets 100 orders, rural dealer gets 2 orders. Say the rural dealer gets a first batch allocation and the second order comes a few weeks later (after the city has already had another 99 orders) they will now be waiting the 6 months to a year before they receive cash for their second sale. However their costs are all upfront.
This will create cash flow problems for the rural dealer. They pay X dollars for the demo car, and various costs upfront but don't make enough until 6-12 months down the track because they need to sells a few vehicles.
What incentive is there for a rural dealer to sell this vehicle? Capital isn't free. capital for setting up these things costs money. If you had a FIFO model you may find many rural dealers wont even sell 86s ie not train their staff, not get demos. Then what? Your rural enthusiasts now have to buy the car through a city dealer.