Wave 1 Lightning invitation email thread [Update: Emails AFTER 5PM ET]

[Moetel6]

Weren’t they the dealer charging a crazy amount of ADM?

A different location was the place with the crazy markup...

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[dlong18074]

I would love it if Ford did at least one each wave for each dealership. But I am a bit biased sitting at number 5.

I would love this as well... I am #2 at my dealer.... when they called me a few weeks ago they also said they were only getting 5 MY22 trucks.... glad I am #2!

 

[jazzmanmonty]

Those who ordered a MME online and had a copy of their original price makeup were able to contact Mike Levine at Ford and he intervened to stop this dealer BS. There’s an entire thread about this on the MME forum.
There‘s a line item on the online pricing called “Adjustment to MSRP.” If that line was zero, it means no ADM and the dealer needs to honor that. Those who didn’t know about contacting Ford to intervene either paid the extra or walked away from the transaction. The dealers actually preferred the latter so they could sell off the lot with even more markup.

So here is my online order.. I submitted online, called my dealer (who had no idea sales were live) and made him accept my order right away so I don't miss out on my model..this is what shows up on my order now. So what ur saying is they can't add any markup now that they accepted my order, and the line shows $0 and dealer selling price same as MSRP?

 

[jazzmanmonty]

I’m reservation 10816***, ordered within 5 minutes of reservations opening. Just found out I’m #11 out of 65 or so reservations at my dealership. Total BS. Waiting to hear back his I’m so low on the list.

Anyone know if I switch to another dealer if I lose my place in line?

Update: there appears to be no line with Ford. Will I be last on list at new dealership?

My dealership has 70 reservations...I kept emailing them for the past few months and they have been clueless about everything... they didn't even know orders were going live today until I submitted mine online. When I talked to the their internet order manager and educated him about this site as well, he thanked me for the info and put me in their number one priority spot.. he said I was originally the 9th spot in reservation order. Nice guy I will buy him a bottle when I get my truck with no funny business lol.

 

[Jer1983]

I got bumped up because my dealer said he liked my enthusiasm ??‍. Probably wants the maverick I ordered but I’m likely #5 of 5 and I won’t be able to get an xlt so I’ll just drive that till next year I guess.

 

[Lime Green]

I was 10817***, had reservation in 3 mins before presentation started

Order numbers are not entirely sequential... Already a big thread on that. My order is 10814*** and I was in within a minute or two of the reservations going online. I placed another order with a different dealership for my company a few minutes later and that order # is 10813*** so whatever..
Of course they do that so we (or the competition) can't assess and track such things.

 

[Pilot2022]

Just got an email from Ford that dealership has changed ownership and my deposit will be refunded. I don’t see reservation under my account either. Will call FoMoCo tomorrow to see what the F is going on… here I was expecting wave 1 or 2 Invite and now can’t find the reservation….?

 

[SmoothJ]

Just got an email from Ford that dealership has changed ownership and my deposit will be refunded. I don’t see reservation under my account either. Will call FoMoCo tomorrow to see what the F is going on… here I was expecting wave 1 or 2 Invite and now can’t find the reservation….?

Sorry to hear about this… that’s not right.

 

[broncoaz]

I got the email earlier, then a pop up on my FordPass app. Going to order the pro I think.

 

[LightingTroy]

Just got an email from Ford that dealership has changed ownership and my deposit will be refunded. I don’t see reservation under my account either. Will call FoMoCo tomorrow to see what the F is going on… here I was expecting wave 1 or 2 Invite and now can’t find the reservation….?

Same thing happened to me a week ago. I called Ford and they said there is a glitch in the system when dealers are sold and it doesn't show up online. But they confirmed everything was good on thier end. I also got the email today but cant order online because of this issue. So i need to go into the dealer to do it. I assumed this would be the case so it was expected.

 

[jazzmanmonty]

So the consensus is that one lucky s.o.b got an invite per dealership to test the system.. (regardless of reservation spot). So i'm trying to figure it out.. how many of you lucky ones attended the lightning event that went around the country giving test drives earlier last year? I attended and they had my info..maybe since I attended the event, I got picked to be part of first wave, even though I wasn't first in my dealers list?

 

[Seageo]

So the consensus is that one lucky s.o.b got an invite per dealership to test the system.. (regardless of reservation spot). So i'm trying to figure it out.. how many of you lucky ones attended the lightning event that went around the country giving test drives earlier last year? I attended and they had my info..maybe since I attended the event, I got picked to be part of first wave, even though I wasn't first in my dealers list?

my dealer didn't even get an allocation apparently...

 

[SmokingtheMeats]

So the consensus is that one lucky s.o.b got an invite per dealership to test the system.. (regardless of reservation spot). So i'm trying to figure it out.. how many of you lucky ones attended the lightning event that went around the country giving test drives earlier last year? I attended and they had my info..maybe since I attended the event, I got picked to be part of first wave, even though I wasn't first in my dealers list?

I went and didn’t get an invite

 

[vbaker4444]

Reserved immediately on 5/19 and worked closely with the small local Ford dealer in Michigan. Luckily, I showed them how the mach E worked and fed them data along the way. Ended up being their first reservation and helped them with all the updates we received such as the playbook.

Checked my reservation around 4:50 p.m. EST and was able to order my truck. Didn't receive any notification from Ford that it was ready until a text message at 6:30 p.m. EST. Dealer has already responded that they got my build and will be in touch shortly before it's submitted on their end.

I should luck out on ADM as they don't charge it on their Broncos or Mavericks. Good luck everyone!

Ordered: Lightning Pro, carbonized grey, tech towing package, 9.6kwh pro power on board and spray in bed liner.

 

[BrerTruck]

maybe since I attended the event, I got picked to be part of first wave, even though I wasn't first in my dealers list?

Didn't seem to help me. My dealer seems lost in the entire process.

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