Dealer said my reservation is #14 out of 667, but I'm a little doubtful . . .

[jb56]

I legitimately started reserving my lightning within 5 minutes of the reservation system being available, at the very beginning of the Ford presentation. I reserved at the largest Ford dealer in my state, so I'm not surprised there are 667 reservations total, but I'm very surprised that 13 people in my area got in faster than me.
Do any of you know if the dealerships themselves had an earlier opportunity to make reservations?
Hopefully 14/667 still means I will get a Lightning in 2022

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[techguydave]

You don't have to reserve at your own dealership, but on top of that you're allowed to move your reservation anywhere.

So what likely happened is you happen to have a good known dealership and people either initially reserved there, or transferred their reservation there.

Of course it's equally possible that your dealership is full of shit and lying to you.

 

[EVBill]

I placed my reservation in the first 4-5 minutes of the system being opened up. My dealership confirmed that I have their second reservation. My timestamp is 15 seconds after the first registration and the next after me was in less than 10 seconds later. With it taking 3-4 minutes to enter the required information when the system opened, I could see with a larger dealership that the could have 15-20 reservations made in the first 5-10 minutes. I am not aware what the total number of reservations are that have been placed at the dealership to date.

 

[jefro]

I suspect that Ford will not produce the Pro model only. They will try to get tax credits plus their higher profit and supply available models out first.

 

[Losi]

That we don't really know anything about anything seems about right, making the conjecture both entertaining and excruciating at the same time. All this talk of members reserving the nanosecond the reservation banks opened has me extremely jealous and secretly hoping none of them get theirs until 2023 at the earliest. Otherwise, cheers, Ford dudes and dudettes.

 

[EVBill]

That we don't really know anything about anything seems about right, making the conjecture both entertaining and excruciating at the same time. All this talk of members reserving the nanosecond the reservation banks opened has me extremely jealous and secretly hoping none of them get theirs until 2023 at the earliest. Otherwise, cheers, Ford dudes and dudettes.

What is worse than reserving an early release vehicle like the F150 Lightning is trying to get your hands on one of the new XBox or Playstation systems. They both were released over a year ago and still noone can get their hands on them as they are purchased online by BOTs as soon as they go up for sale and then are relisted on places like ebay for $400-500 over the initial $500 pricing. Trying to get a upper level graphics card for a gaming PC is just as bad or worse.

 

[Sklith]

Sneaker bots buying $80k trucks sounds pretty 2021 to me.

 

[Losi]

What is worse than reserving an early release vehicle like the F150 Lightning is trying to get your hands on one of the new XBox or Playstation systems. They both were released over a year ago and still noone can get their hands on them as they are purchased online by BOTs as soon as they go up for sale and then are relisted on places like ebay for $400-500 over the initial $500 pricing. Trying to get a upper level graphics card for a gaming PC is just as bad or worse.

I reckon it’s a sinister confluence of chip shortage, supply chain fandangos, and general buttheadedness. It makes me wonder if we’ll ever get back to normal, however you define it.

Sneaker bots buying $80k trucks sounds pretty 2021 to me.

LOL, right.

 

[Sundancer330]

This site has REALLY turned into a complete Piece of SHIT!

I tried to post more of my pictures and it wouldn't let me, instead gave me THIS:


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...good luck everybody.

Wow that was a nice goodbye.

 

[Whoskyle]

Wow that was a nice goodbye.

He literally left over cookies ?

 

[Smokewagun]

I think his attitude was holding him hostage. Hope he moves over to the Ram Forum where everything is so peachy.

 

[Garbone]

I think his attitude was holding him hostage. Hope he moves over to the Ram Forum where everything is so peachy.

Nah,. He should move to the Bolt forum. I hear shit is literally on fire over there.

 

[F150ROD]

Another Cybertruck Troll

 

[greenne]

Another Cybertruck Troll

Sounded like the Tesla Cult to me.

Then again, maybe not. The number One rule of Tesla Cult is to tell everyone all the time you own a Tesla, even if nobody gives a crap.

 

[PungoteagueDave]

I legitimately started reserving my lightning within 5 minutes of the reservation system being available, at the very beginning of the Ford presentation. I reserved at the largest Ford dealer in my state, so I'm not surprised there are 667 reservations total, but I'm very surprised that 13 people in my area got in faster than me.
Do any of you know if the dealerships themselves had an earlier opportunity to make reservations?
Hopefully 14/667 still means I will get a Lightning in 2022

The reservation system actually went live about ten hours before the presentation. That's how I got #2 at my dealer.

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