Jimmy-D

I am still not a believer they are done. I appears they a re a month ahead of schedule in some cases. But- an extra 500 cars spread world wide is a drop in the bucket considering Europe is really putting the pressure on PAG to send them more cars

subshooter

Really? Is that what I need to do to get a GT3? Get on a list (that may or may not be honored) and wait 4 years?....and then have this happen to me....

That is totally outrageous! I would be up Klaus' a$$ with a microscope building condominiums.

sampelligrino

That is the worst part about all of this madness. The car should go to people who are passionate about the GT3 and intend to drive it/make memories with it, not for profiteering. Sucks for people who have to pay an ADM to get the car they want or for those who hold out for MSRP and miss out on the car.

What's sad is that is actually the truth. On one of the lists I was on for a .2 GT3, I was on it for over a year and the SA hinted that I could have a good shot at the 992 GT3 lol

SToronto

Cool! Fingers crossed for you, me and others. But I'm hearing a lot otherwise across the country.

NVRANUF

At the end of the day what's the purpose of laying down a deposit only to get your name added to- The List.
A list with a sequence that is arbitrary at best...
Guess it's like the "buying a lottery ticket" analogy, can't win if you don't buy one.

Wild Weasel

Well... to be fair... what else can you do? The legitimacy of the "list" is certainly up for debate, but if you don't get on one at all, you're definitely not getting a car unless you're the sort of customer that doesn't need to be in this discussion at all.

It's not like a lottery. There's no random draw and you certainly don't have the same odds as every other ticket in the hat.

Think of it more like a silent auction but that you have no idea what the criteria is for choosing the winning bid.

RealityGT

Were you able to just walk into your dealer and obtain an allocation without having to make your intentions known to them in advance?
I know some people are very good customers and don't need to drop deposits, but I'm curious to know how one can obtain an allocation without even informing the dealer of your intent to purchase? Which is in essence, what the deposit is supposed to acknowledge...

NVRANUF

LOL, of course but I meant it more like, you can't receive an allocation if you are not on the list... even though "where" you are on the list at any given moment in time seems arbitrary to the dealer's whim.

Wild Weasel

There are people out there that the dealers will call and ask if they want a car.

We are not those people.

I rather expect those people don't pay attention to these allocations threads.

RealityGT

LOL! Yes agreed, I am not one of those individuals.. HaHa..

RealityGT

100% agreed.

NVRANUF

Pretty much. I was offered a build slot before I was 100% committed.
I came around!!

subshooter

Exactly. It is all a game. This is why I posted a thread regarding Porsche's business model. It doesn't make any sense to me. It stinks of third world cronyism.

As a comparison, if I want to buy one of the best speaker systems in the world, the company is going to sell it to me. I just need to have the money.- whether it is $10,000 for one speaker or $50,000. I can walk right in or order it on line, tell them I want it and pay a huge price. I don't have to do the list game dance crap. If Porsche needs another factory to meet demand (which I doubt), then build it.

Edit: BTW - I would never buy a speaker that expensive and Porsche is not the best car manufacturer in the world either. I'm just making a point.

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Wild Weasel

For what it's worth... I do hope you land one. I mean... you know your car was practically an inspiration for me back in the day.

It's interesting to see how the system differs from country to country. In the US, it seems to be practically an auction at this point. If you have enough money, you CAN just walk in and order one. It's just that the MSRP is completely irrelevant and you don't really know until you talk to someone what you're actually going to pay.

Here in Canada, it's all MSRP so the challenge is just in being ABLE to buy one rather than about how much you're willing to pay for one. Now... if you've got gobs of money here, you can still buy your way into one but it's not quite as cut and dry as it is in the US. A number of people here told me that if you go into a certain dealer and buy a used 991 RS off their lot at their price, you'd get your GT3 allocation at the same time. So big money wins either way... but it's not the only way.

On both cases, relationships matter. Plenty of people in the US are buying at MSRP as well. There's no formula there though. No advice to give, really. It could just be about dealing with the right people at the right dealership but that's not a thing you can set out as a set of instructions on a web forum.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of input here about how things work in the rest of the world. I'm genuinely curious as to how things are going elsewhere. How does it work in various European countries? Asia? Australia? Not a lot of anecdotes here to go on for the ROW sales.