*Official* Allocation Locator Thread

[eclipsisNA]

Originally Posted by OC kid

definitely. My buddies just moved to Nashua and started an iron works business, so when it comes in, if I don't do Performance Delivery, I plan on flying out to check it out at pdi and see it get loaded on the transport. I'll PM you for sure if it goes down!

OC, just have it shipped to a dealer in your area. That's what I did. They put the port of delivery as Port Hueneme.

[WCH]

OC - you beat me to it. I called just after you. BTW they wanted $2K over invoice. Hope you didn't have to pay over MSRP. Congrats!

[OC ///M]

Originally Posted by Xcellere

OC, just have it shipped to a dealer in your area. That's what I did. They put the port of delivery as Port Hueneme.

Is this the Courtesy Delivery you told me about before?

Are the selling dealers obligated to make the Courtesy delivery happen as long as I get a receiving dealer here to cooperate?

I did ask my CA who wasn't familiar with the procedure, so to simplify I told him for now; transport...

I am def interested to hear what you did to make that happen.

[Epacy]

Originally Posted by WCH

OC - you beat me to it. I called just after you. BTW they wanted $2K over invoice. Hope you didn't have to pay over MSRP. Congrats!

Did they offer that up to you? That seems really lenient.

[OC ///M]

Originally Posted by WCH

OC - you beat me to it. I called just after you. BTW they wanted $2K over invoice. Hope you didn't have to pay over MSRP. Congrats!

Crazy... timing sure is everything. No, I didn't have to pay 2k over MSRP. My CA did mention someone offered 4k over from Northern California.

[Epacy]

He said $2k over invoice not MSRP.
Does he know what invoice means?

[OC ///M]

Originally Posted by Epacy

He said $2k over invoice not MSRP.
Does he know what invoice means?

oh shiat! Were they asking $2k over invoice? I don't think that's right.

edit: in fact I'm pretty damn sure invoice was not even a topic of discussion when I dealt with my CA. That's the holy grail, nobody gets near that this early in the game, do they?

[Epacy]

Originally Posted by OC kid

oh shiat! Were they asking $2k over invoice? I don't think that's right.

edit: in fact I'm pretty damn sure invoice was not even a topic of discussion when I dealt with my CA. That's the holy grail, nobody gets near that this early in the game, do they?

Well, that's why I want to know who offered that up with the other guy.

OC, did you speak of price first or did he?

[eclipsisNA]

Originally Posted by OC kid

Is this the Courtesy Delivery you told me about before?

Are the selling dealers obligated to make the Courtesy delivery happen as long as I get a receiving dealer here to cooperate?

I did ask my CA who wasn't familiar with the procedure, so to simplify I told him for now; transport...

I am def interested to hear what you did to make that happen.

Yep, it's the courtesy delivery I mentioned. Dealers usually charge around $500 to do a CD. South Bay ended up not charging anything for the CD because Newbold transferred the sale of the car over to South Bay, so for me it worked out perfectly. First M3 in SoCal at MSRP from a Socal dealership.

What happens is this: dealer you're buying through contacts the dealer you want the car delivered to. The buying dealer then sends the delivering dealer a sheet they have to sign off on that authorizes the car being delivered to them. That form is then sent to BMW Distribution, who then go into the order system and change the delivery local to the delivery dealership. The buying dealership is merely a conduit that places the order in the system.

Originally Posted by OC kid

Are the selling dealers obligated to make the Courtesy delivery happen as long as I get a receiving dealer here to cooperate?

They're obligated to make the CD happen if they don't want you to walk out on them. You can simply tell them to do a CD or you go elsewhere. Talk to the manager of the dealership ALWAYS, as he should know the CD process.

[OC ///M]

Epacy: OC, did you speak of price first or did he?

The CA did... He mentioned the baseline at MSRP, then went into the story about other members here vying for the allocation...someone offered 4k over msrp, etc...

[OC ///M]

Originally Posted by Xcellere

What happens is this: dealer you're buying through contacts the dealer you want the car delivered to. The buying dealer then sends the delivering dealer a sheet they have to sign off on that authorizes the car being delivered to them. That form is then sent to BMW Distribution, who then go into the order system and change the delivery local to the delivery dealership. The buying dealership is merely a conduit that places the order in the system.

Perfect, I may just have to copy/paste & email this to my CA.

Thanks brotha

[Epacy]

Originally Posted by OC kid

The CA did... He mentioned the baseline at MSRP, then went into the story about other members here vying for the allocation...someone offered 4k over msrp, etc...

Most liekly a lie.

[Epacy]

Xcellere, so Newbold got nothing for the sale?

[eclipsisNA]

Originally Posted by Epacy

Xcellere, so Newbold got nothing for the sale?

They worked out a deal with South Bay, meaning both parties made out fine. I'm unaware of the finer details.

[OC ///M]

Originally Posted by Epacy

Most liekly a lie.

You think there were really only asking 2k over invoice?

[OC ///M]

Epacy: Xcellere, so Newbold got nothing for the sale?

Originally Posted by Xcellere

They worked out a deal with South Bay, meaning both parties made out fine. I'm unaware of the finer details.

They traded away our allocations Epacy...

[Epacy]

Originally Posted by OC kid

You think there were really only asking 2k over invoice?

I was saying his $4k over msrp claim is probably BS.

[Epacy]

Originally Posted by OC kid

They traded away our allocations Epacy...

I hope that isn't true.

[OC ///M]

Originally Posted by Epacy

I was saying his $4k over msrp claim is probably BS.

got it.

[eclipsisNA]

Originally Posted by OC kid

They traded away our allocations Epacy...

[swamp2]

Originally Posted by OC kid

At a minimum here, we need to get admin to promote Xcellere in rank or something. Helping out the rest of us when he's already got one locked down on a boat...This will help more than a few people here. Thanks man.

+1, very helpful and very nice move X!

[WCH]

Sorry I mistyped. He said someone had taken the allocation with $2K over MSRP. Seems a bit shady if he had made the deal with you at MRSP to tell me that he had someone at 2K over MSRP.