My build seems to be getting pushed back a week for every week that goes by. So
I decided to go looking to see what’s available in inventory. Found a 2022 KRU at Bob Davidson Ford in Baltimore for $25K over sticker. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Ford needs to start pulling franchises from dealers like this.

 

Read an article the other day that Ford is going to start punishing dealers like this by taking their allotments away. This is a multipart problem and the blame can't be totally put on the dealers. First some consumers are dumb enough to pay those stupid prices which fuels the fire even more and then some are turning around and reselling vehices for huge profits that were bought at normal prices. Second, dealers are low on stock and don't know when they'll get more so they try to make the same amount of money with fewer sales as they would with a normal volume and then some are seeing the prices consumers are getting that buy cheap and resell so they up the price to cut back on that. It's a revolving door of issues.

Best thing we can do as consumers is not pay those prices and after the vehicles sit for months on end the "market adjustments" will go away. We can also remember the dealers that add crazy upcharges and just not buy from them when/if things return to normal.

We can still get good prices on new trucks, you just have to order them and wait but there are a lot of people that want instant gratification and this is the result. Most of these people that are buying new trucks at these prices are trading in fairly new trucks so unless you wreaked your truck or suddenly started a new business that requires a change in vehicles there is no need to have a new truck right at this instant and nobody is forcing you to pay these prices.

 

Ir’s only robbery if you agree to that price.

 

It wouldn't be robbery still. Just stupidity lol

 

I don’t agree with those prices, but like mentioned above, they can’t sell them for those prices unless someone pays those prices. Also, that’s a green sticker, so there is a very good chance a customer actually ordered that truck, then walked away from it. Maybe the customer also got tired of waiting and found something else on a lot somewhere else, or even had another order in that showed up first. Saying all of that, I do hope your truck gets a firm build date and gets delivered soon… good luck.

 

OMG.

No need for crying. This is so childish. I don't understand how people who can afford vehicles can be so young.

If you don't like the price, walk away.

​​​​​​I just bought a ,new Raptor, with 15K market adjustment, with market adjustment on my SD, my difference was 5K after negotiations. If I did not like to deal it could have walked.

Last year I sold my house for 67,000 more than I paid I only lived there two years. It was a bidding war, I guess in your eyes those are all victims lined up to buy it.

 

In regard to market adjustments, a fool and his money are soon parted.

 

Holy Crap!!!! I bought my 1st house in 1997 for 87,500! 3 Bedroom Colonial and a decent size backyard (for a city)

 

Exactly what I was thinking. Dealers are only pulling this crap because someone is dumb enough, desperate enough or rich enough to not care and buy the truck at the ridiculous price.

 

Ford isn't going to do anything regarding fair market practices. It's not like the dealer is somehow pulling shenanigans to hide their pad. And this is not the first year this has been done. Go back any time you want and you will see market adjustments ever time there is a supply imbalance. I was car shopping in the late '80s and dealers were marking up over MSRP on fuel miser cars. I think it was the late '80s, but I recall looking at a Ford Escort Pony with a $1k over sticker. And Ford didn't bust their chops then so why does anyone think it will happen now? Pay it or don't. That's how it works.

 

Crazy mark ups are not new to Ford. Anybody buying a first year Raptor, is paying it, or the GT350 and GT500 Mustangs, I even saw a Focus RS marked up on the show floor by $15k once. King Ranch F450 seems like a pretty tough truck to get these days. Like everybody says, don't like it, don't pay it. Chances are someone will, and who cares?

 

What's robbery is that a bank will give a loan for that truck to some guy who makes $10 an hour, with no down payment!

 

I recall this in 2006 when I ordered a new Mustang GT. I live near an Army base. Soldiers were coming home with wads of combat pay. They didn't really care to negotiate and just paid the price. Dealers took advantage of that and pretty much ignored locals who were used to negotiating. So at that time Mustangs were going for $2-3k above sticker locally. I went to another dealer about 125 miles away and did not pay close to sticker to order the car. Which I still have 15 plus years later.
And you're right. In the current situation it's not exactly like they're putting any shade on it. They're posting the prices for everyone to see. Fortunately I had a great situation and being a personal friend of the dealer helped me get what now appears to be a ridiculously good deal on my new 2022.
I've seen a few posts about Ford corporate or the CEO supposedly doing something about this phenomenon, but never a link or any documentation to back it up.

 

No need to complain as always once prices go up they never come back down. Get used to it these prices are here to stay inventory might get better eventually not anytime soon but price will remain stupid.

 

Here’s a USED 2021 Lariat ONLY $3000 over original MSRP. IT HAS 136,000 miles on it.

Talk about F450s holding their value.