“Could total 20K” is the key phrase here. We still don’t know how heavily Ford weighs the dealer prioritization vs. earlier time stamp. They probably are, but we don’t know for a fact. Either way we’re probably looking at a truck for both priority slots and first day time stamps by the end of the year. Unless Ford decides to allow some more line jumping, hope they don’t!
From everything I've seen (starting with the post from Granger Ford guy) and from other comments made here as well as my experience with my own dealer, it was 1 reservation conversion to an order for each dealership, for whoever that dealer had at the top of the list they were told to prioritize a couple of weeks ago. Ranked by timestamp or "dealer loyalty" or a mix of both. I don't know how many dealers there are.
I'm going to suggest you drive over to your dealer and discuss. Because from every other source of info there was only 1 reservation converted for wave 1 from each dealership. So how your dealer is saying that they submitted an order for both you and somebody else on the 6th.....well that will make for an interesting discussion. And you'll want to do that in person to see the look on the face of the person who's explaining what happened. Cause your BS meter should be pegged if you were told two orders were submitted on wave 1 day from that dealer.
Yeah, I'm curious as well, and the Mods added a "don't know" option to the "dealer priority" question in the order tracking list on this forum.
How so? The tracking on this forum shows almost all wave 1 invites reserved day 1, with the latest being 4 days after reveal. If anything, it took an early reservation AND a Prioritization to get the wave 1 (no more than 1 per dealer) invitation.
They should accept it as soon as possible to avoid an issue with supply and demand issues. That’s why people on the later waves, like myself, are saying they might not get what they want.
I believe it’s two fold… priority if your dealer did it, and reservations if your dealer didn’t. They selected all the BEV dealers, and took the top one.
I went to my dealer Friday and watched them accept it. They told me they usually did that every Thursday, so my order would’ve sat for a week otherwise.
As others have pointed out, this doesn't take into account the priority reordering that dealers can do. In my case, I was told by my dealer in early Dec that I was #2 of 253 reservations, so I figured I'd surely get a MY2022. But when I emailed him yesterday he told me "The List has been Shaken Up looks like you are now 26". So, in the case of this dealer, only ONE of the top 25 by timestamp made it to the priority list (and I was previously told that the owner was at #5, so I assume it was him). I doubt I have any chance of a MY2022 at this point, which really sucks.
I was 34 at my dealer and am now 48. I’m kinda ticked myself
