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Originally Posted by efarley
Odd thing is that one of the dealers I've been talking with called me on Sunday to tell me they could start placing 2015 orders, but when I asked about pricing on the data recorder he didn't have it. How can they place the order when they don't even have the pricing yet.
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I do not believe there is a single year in the past 100 years that orders were placed before the start or production and pricing was known.
It is a part of the business: initial allocations are used while a month or two goes by before pricing is determined. If a dealer passes pending pricing it won't be long until that dealer will not have anything to sell and every dealer around him will.
It is a part of the business. Remember, very few delivered vehicles are individually ordered which means almost every vehicle sold to a retail customer is not customer ordered. My guess: about 1%.
Laborsmith