hilld

If you have been a Ford stock holder of record for 6 moths (min 100 shares) you are also eligible for X-plan as well.

Ricktwuhk

Posted often. Join an organization like the Experimental Aircraft Association.

BEW119

Also Mustang Club of America and you can also try Blue Oval forum for x plan

White 1

There's this miserable tool the dealer uses called "Smart Vincent" which tells them at any given minute what rebates and deals apply to any given vehicle. And when you talk to them one week and the price of the truck is X, and you go back a week later and the price has changed, they blame Smart Vincent. I asked the salesman "where is this Vincent and how smart will he be one I punch him in the throat?" The guy gave me the don't blame me speech, Vincent is all knowing an authoritative and that's that.

I dropped the printout of the web page for the truck on wanted on the sales guys desk and told him I want the advertised price (with dealer discount and rebates a 50K truck was 40K, and which hadn't changed in the week since I first started negotiating) and if they didn't give it to me, Vincent could get bent and my next phone call was to the MD States Attorney General. I finally got that price. I went straight home and took a shower.

There has to be a better way, and was hoping Costco might be that ?

Ricktwuhk

The reality is that rebates are posted with expiration dates. Yes, they sometimes end early, and sometimes rebates are added before the others expire, but not often. So you can see before you go in whether they stay in place or not during your deliberations.

If they ended on 1/4, and you went in on 1/2 and then again on 1/9, yes, the price would be different.

White 1

A valid point. The Ford rebates expiration dates of 1/2/2018 and my discussions started 12/22 and I took delivery 12/29. But there were also Ford Finance rebates which were interest rate dependent and the terms of the 0.0 and 0.9 rates I think are what changed underneath me.

The lawyer in me (I'm not, but many of my friends are) says that they should be posting "expires 1/2/2018 OR BEFORE" and/or "0.0% for 72 months expiring 1/2 OR BEFORE AND MAY CHANGE IN TERM" on their website. I was going to pay cash, but took the financing to capture an additional finance dependent rebate. That, I think, was where the real unhappiness began. In the end the dealer came up with "coupons" to make up for the disappearing money. I settled for 48 months instead of 72 months at 0.0%. Like I said I was going to pay cash, but free money is free money.

The next time this happens my head will be in the right place. But 2017 was such a challenging year personally, for a whole bunch of reasons, that I simply wasn't prepared to do battle with the sales equivalent of the United States Marines.

All that said, the truck is meeting the needs I had to fulfill, and it looks good and the wife likes it, so I feel like I got value for my money.

TopOMichXL

Well....I do a lot of carpentry/upkeep work on a summer home for a past-president of Ford. He overheard me talking about a new vehicle and offered me the x-plan. And he no longer had to look at a Toyota in his driveway.