Need advice. Am I getting "screwed"? Should I allow dealership to add this to new badlands I'm about to order?

[sajohnson]

I just bite the bullet and placed order! ... that sales guy just placed order for the BS BL... I did not sign anything at all though... not even the below paper (not sure if that was stupid or not but....)... sales guy just placed order for BS BL in AREA 51 color and I got email from Ford saying "your order has been confirmed... then it says my FIRST name and MIDDLE name". It doesn't show my FIRST and LAST name... weird how it left out my LAST name entirely.

IF I'm messed around with once vehicle arrives at dealerhsip in few months... then I will simply buy-out my current car I'm leasing. So now it's up to the stars what happens!

Moltenburn
Since my chicken brain can't confidently make up my mind whether to buy-out my current GLA... I decided to "wing it" and just throw something... I don't recall what the saying is LOL... but whatever happens happens. I give up ?

Throw caution to the wind... the h*ll with it. That's the saying ?

Did you end up ordering from one of the 2 dealers you mentioned?

Did they ask for a deposit?

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[tropical2022]

Did you end up ordering from one of the 2 dealers you mentioned?

Did they ask for a deposit?

I didn't put any deposit down. I ordered through the second dealership I went to. Not the very first one who was trying to add-on the "desert protection package" and "BT security system" and also wanted to hit me with VTR.

It will be interesting to see if I ever do mange to actually get the car ??

 

[tropical2022]

Idk why you can't just place order online if you are sure of what you want.
One thing I did notice in my short life of buying new cars, somehow if you find a car on the lot with the same options somehow it's cheaper if it's ordered by the dealer.

I must really be brain dead... that's what I tried to do originally but when I called Ford the lady on phone said I must order through a dealership? ? So then I assumed you cannot order through Ford directly...

 

[DISCOLEG]

I must really be brain dead... that's what I tried to do originally but when I called Ford the lady on phone said I must order through a dealership? ? So then I assumed you cannot order through Ford directly...

no, no, I mean..there is no good reason you should not be able to do it, it's not possible yet.

 

[Tigger]

Regarding your lease on the GLA, contact the Mercedes’ dealership and inquire if they want to buy it back from you. My daughter’s neighbor sold hers back at $4000 over.

Also, I’m glad you stopped working with that first Ford dealership. They do not deserve your business.

 

[delm]

I seems like you are really getting jerked around.

It might be worth going to Granger near Des Moines (see the thread here).

6% under invoice. They are my plan B. The only reason I'm trying to buy locally first is because I know how 'testy'/grumpy dealers can get about performing warranty service on vehicles they didn't sell. Otherwise, I would have ordered from them.

You got that right. Long ago, I worked at a country club in Tucson, AZ. One of the members owned a dealership. I heard him telling this story to another member: He noticed a car that had come in for service, that had been sold by a dealership on the other side of town. The guy that owned the dealership saw the address of the customer, and realized that the customer lived very close to his dealership. So he went up to the customer and asked him why he hadn't bought his car at this dealership....why had he driven across town for the car? The customer stated that he'd saved a couple hundred bucks at the other dealership, and this guy's dealership wouldn't match that price.

The owner was furious that this customer had given his business to somebody else for $200, so he went right into the service area and instructed the shop to up charge the customer $200 on top of whatever the service was going to cost.

As he told this story, he was laughing away at how he'd really given it to this jerk customer.

I was in high school when I heard this. But I stored the story away with a big, "note to self: Be careful in these situations!"

I've never forgotten. Shady crap happens all the time if you are not paying attention, and don't know the triggers.

 

[sajohnson]

You got that right. Long ago, I worked at a country club in Tucson, AZ. One of the members owned a dealership. I heard him telling this story to another member: He noticed a car that had come in for service, that had been sold by a dealership on the other side of town. The guy that owned the dealership saw the address of the customer, and realized that the customer lived very close to his dealership. So he went up to the customer and asked him why he hadn't bought his car at this dealership....why had he driven across town for the car? The customer stated that he'd saved a couple hundred bucks at the other dealership, and this guy's dealership wouldn't match that price.

The owner was furious that this customer had given his business to somebody else for $200, so he went right into the service area and instructed the shop to up charge the customer $200 on top of whatever the service was going to cost.

As he told this story, he was laughing away at how he'd really given it to this jerk customer.

I was in high school when I heard this. But I stored the story away with a big, "note to self: Be careful in these situations!"

I've never forgotten. Shady crap happens all the time if you are not paying attention, and don't know the triggers.

That's quite a story!

I have a few of my own in which the dealer was not so passive-aggressive. They got right in my face and told me to take my car back where I bought it. In one case I had to threaten to go to arbitration.

I could write a long article about my experiences.

You know, I can understand how the dealers feel. I just have a problem with how they put the customers in the middle.

Either service *ALL* vehicles that they have franchise agreements for, or DON'T -- but don't claim owners can take their car to "any dealer" when that's clearly not the case.

If dealers are unhappy with their warranty work pay rate, they need to take it up with the mfrs.

It's immature to blame customers for playing by the rules. If the mfr stated that (except for travel/emergencies) customers must have warranty work done by the selling dealer, then that would be clear and we would all know what to expect.

As-is, on paper anyway, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a person shopping for the lowest price (say at Granger) and then having warranty work done elsewhere. It's understandable that someone -- esp a first time buyer -- might do that. Then they take their car in for warranty repairs and get a truckload of attitude.

It's really stupid, and bad for business.

 

[VittoriaC]

Thanks for your reply! The sales guy said the "desert protection package" includes ceramic tinted windows... so maybe I should find out if ALL the windows... meaning the windshield and the side windows and the rear window will be ceramic tinted.. then maybe it is worth keepig this desert proctection package? I don't trust car dealership selling cars... this is why I rather go get my windows tinted elsewhere so I really know what I am really getting...

Personally I would not let them do any ceramic/paint protection, that is not their forte, get that done by an expert shop. Also I purchased the fender flares from Ford after I got my BL, $555 including installation, left them black as they look sharp against my BS Oxford White.

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