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Originally Posted by ZYAL8R

Here in the real world....you purchase your ticket and then go wait in line. When the line starts moving, you advance further toward the front until you ARE the front of the line. Ticket bought in order, wait in order, product delivered in order. That's the only damn way it should be....period.

But oh wait a minute.....I'm not living in the real world here with GM and the Camaro am I? I forgot that part. This is the world where I bought my ticket and keep getting shuffled backward in the line b/c of the dealer cars (which is nothing more than a gouging racket), oh I must move backward again, this time for the rental cars, and don't look now, here come all of these Johnny-come-latelys who just now showed up to purchase their ticket while I've been standing in line since October, and they are walking out with popcorn and a valet who's on his way to deliver their car.

So now I've found myself close to the very end of the line, and why exactly? B/c of very poor customer service which is BAD BUSINESS! Come on GM, wtf are you thinking?

When (and I hate to say this) or IF I choose to keep waiting and the Camaro is FINALLY delivered, and then I'm out driving one day and run into another new Camaro owner and the guy says "When did you order?" and I say "Two days after you COULD order" and then the guy spouts off "I ordered in April and got my car in June-July", I will want to melt his two lips together with my fist.

Not only will all the Johnny-come-latelys embarass the pre-order people, it SHOULD embarass GM.

Now tell me again why I pre-ordered?

I want my car as soon as possible too and I ordered in October....BUT...people need to stop and think a moment. It would be totally unfeasible for GM to deliver cars in the order they were Pre-ordered (referring to your "buy a ticket and get in line" analogy). It would be financially insane for GM to attempt to ship one car to NC, then ship one car to CA, then another car to WI then a couple of cars to PA. For this reason, we're not going to get our cars in sequential order. I would think they would send cars to dealers in batches to save as much $ on the shipping process as possible. The delivery process is a very complicated thing and I have no better ideas on how to accomplish this part of the process.

With all that said, It does get to me that someone can order in Feb. or even March and get their car before me that ordered in October '08 and I'm still at 1100 but I have no suggestions on how to fix the issue because I guess it all depends on the dealership you ordered from and where they fall in the mix with GM.