I was suspicious when they all ask for your build codes immediately.

 

in California all deposits are refundable until you sign the purchase contract, all the funds have cleared, and you physically have the keys.

until then, it’s the dealer’s car and they can just refund you your deposit and do anything they want with their car.

 

Lol. My dealer brought that up with an unsolicited hint when I asked when the lock date was, so I think people have tried it a fair before. Loosely paraphrasing what they said, 'removing the odd option is fine but if your options lists disappears down to a stripper that would be frowned upon and be a problem' lol. My guess is if you went from a bloat build to a stripper they'd just be like oh yell no, and if you stuck to it they'd give your allocation to someone else saying you abandoned it, or build it for inventory under your name leaving you high and dry.

But I bet you could do it with PCCBs and buckets and then switch to irons and 2 ways if you changed nothing else. Just be like man we sat in a friend's car with buckets and my wife is orca fat and she can't fit and I plan to track it every week and I thought PCCBs were for track but Prueninger said don't get the PCCBs if you track it. They can't really fault you too much for that.

 

why trading?

 

My SA confirmed they got no (new) gt4/spyder allocations in Sept (in the usual week).

Anyone else?

 

Ferrari 488 spider

 

My dealer go no allocations in aug or sept.

 

My dealer, Kings Porsche in Cincinnati, hasn’t said anything about my changes. Recently dropped $9k in options and the manager didn’t blink. He sent the new build sheet, production timing along with a reminder that my freeze date is Oct 6 should I want to make any other changes. Kings has been outstanding to deal with.

 

i have the same freeze date

 

I don’t agree with pumping up the build to secure an allocation. It might be a demographic or cultural thing. When my order was about to lock I was really on the fence with carbon buckets. I was about to change my spec from sport seats to buckets. My SA along with his boss talked me out of it. They based that purely on the amount of people getting rid of their cars strictly because of the discomfort of those seats. Their recommendation was based solely on my well being and not in the bottom line.
As a side note, I think I would regret the seat choice regardless of what I chose. Buckets because they likely would irritate my sciatica. And the sports seats because they aren’t buckets. I’m not gonna worry about it.

 

How many deposits have you guys put down? $10k? $20k? Most dealers I have called either have a wait list that is already too long that they can not consciously take more deposits or have not received any gt4 allocations for months.

 

Put a deposit on Spyder wait list allocation on east coast P dealer. Says I am third on the list he expects 2 allocations before end of this year and for my allocation to be available 1st quarter 2022. I dont know if he is right but I hope so anyways...can always dream. He put info in the computer vehicle status v070(must be the dreamer status)
If someone was to try and get on wait list at other dealers at same time wouldnt that show up as soon as they put your name in the computer? Wouldnt Porsche and other dealers frown upon this? What do u guys think?

 

I wondered about the computer system cross checking names, but no, they don't.

 

My SA also confirmed that though they were expecting some allocations this month, it's been pushed off until October.

 

In theory I'm first in line at the this point, but no Boxster GTS allocations at my dealer since last Nov. They had more GT4 / Spyder than GTS. No deposit (I offered, but they declined as this will be my 3rd Porsche from them - at this point they know that when I'm serious they are going to make a sale). Hoping for allocation by year end and delivery next April or May (no use any earlier given the snow and road salt around here). I'll give them credit though - when I noted that with my luck it would end up a Jan. or Feb. delivery they said they'd drop it off at my house via enclosed truck. Being in sales of a sort myself I feel for them - they are doing everything right, they just need the actual vehicle to sell.