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[OldJedi]

Originally Posted by mlee

Sorry... I should have clarified.... the ordering for the Nov cycle starts Dec 15th. Production begis on 23 Jan.

OK, now I am confused. I thought that there is a consensus period each month. The first consensus will be in November, I thought to cover the first production month in January. The consensus in December would cover production in February. If this is not correct, please let me know how it actually works.

[Uneducated Guess]

Originally Posted by OldJedi

OK, now I am confused. I thought that there is a consensus period each month. The first consensus will be in November, I thought to cover the first production month in January. The consensus in December would cover production in February. If this is not correct, please let me know how it actually works.

lol...I think I'm more lost now than I was before this question was brought up.

[Uneducated Guess]

ok...I get the whole consensus part of it but how do they actually pick the allocations for that consensus period? Is it random?

[mlee]

Originally Posted by OldJedi

OK, now I am confused. I thought that there is a consensus period each month. The first consensus will be in November, I thought to cover the first production month in January. The consensus in December would cover production in February. If this is not correct, please let me know how it actually works.

You have it right... it's just actual order for the Nov consensus can go in 15 December

[Scarrzz]

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I have it straight in my head now how the consensus vs allocation works.

That was very helpful, GoldenBear.

[1BADZL1]

Originally Posted by GoldenBear

Your order is based on the allocation that your dealer was issued. What is not yet known is when (month and week) that allocation is slotted to get picked up for production by GM.

This^
Even the dealers do NOT know when this date is. If they tell you anything different they are liars. They can tell you when they THINK it will be, but even that is based off of prior allocations from GM.
Keep in mind, and I won't go into depth here, but the car buying customer is NOT the manufacturers customer. The customer is the dealership that placed the order with the manf. They are the ones with the established relationship, not the car buying public. Once you understand this concept/principle, it gets a bet easier to understand some of this stuff.
Just a quick analogy. Golden Bear orders his 2012 ZL1 from his state. His dealer has one allocation for one 2012 ZL1. MY68RS orders his car a month prior to Bear ordering his, but my dealership does not get his alloted allocation until Mid Feb. Even though I ordered a month before bear, bear would get his ZL1 first. Lots of other factors involved lots of other issues, constraints etc, and I am only touching the top layer. Hope this helps.

[Uneducated Guess]

Originally Posted by MY68RS

This^
Even the dealers do NOT know when this date is. If they tell you anything different they are liars. They can tell you when they THINK it will be, but even that is based off of prior allocations from GM.
Keep in mind, and I won't go into depth here, but the car buying customer is NOT the manufacturers customer. The customer is the dealership that placed the order with the manf. They are the ones with the established relationship, not the car buying public. Once you understand this concept/principle, it gets a bet easier to understand some of this stuff.
Just a quick analogy. Golden Bear orders his 2012 ZL1 from his state. His dealer has one allocation for one 2012 ZL1. MY68RS orders his car a month prior to Bear ordering his, but my dealership does not get his alloted allocation until Mid Feb. Even though I ordered a month before bear, bear would get his ZL1 first. Lots of other factors involved lots of other issues, constraints etc, and I am only touching the top layer. Hope this helps.

my question is, how do they pick which allocations go when? is it predetermined when they announce how many allocations the dealership will receive? Or, is it random and those that go in the first consesus just get the luck of the draw?

[1BADZL1]

Originally Posted by Uneducated Guess

my question is, how do they pick which allocations go when? is it predetermined when they announce how many allocations the dealership will receive? Or, is it random and those that go in the first consesus just get the luck of the draw?

Just an uneducated guess. I would assume by the dealers selling relationship with the manf. Probably part of it anyway but maybe not all of it.
Would only make sense to me anyway. If your dealership brother bob's chevy dealrship sold 30k cars a year and uncle henry's chevy dealership only sold 1k new cars a year....
Again, I do not work for GM and I am sure they would not want most of us to know the real answer to this anyway.... Its usually these types of theads that get silenced for a lot less...

It is a good question though.

[Uneducated Guess]

Originally Posted by MY68RS

Just an uneducated guess.

I see what you did there...

[OldJedi]

Originally Posted by mlee

You have it right... it's just actual order for the Nov consensus can go in 15 December

OK, now I understand what you were saying. Thanks.

[Drake Heminger]

i hope my dealership being a premier dealership we get allocated asap! lol i dont mind waiting longer though bc it just lets me save up for a bigger deposit (:

[mlee]

Originally Posted by Drake Heminger

i hope my dealership being a premier dealership we get allocated asap! lol i dont mind waiting longer though bc it just lets me save up for a bigger deposit (:

Finally... it seems you've realized WELCOME to the wait game w/ the rest of us...

Originally Posted by Drake Heminger

it has been issued for november im just going off of what was said to me and everything that i have been told has so far been accurate... my dealership even knew their number of allocations 4 months in advance... when you all said no they cant possibly know... they did...

Originally Posted by Drake Heminger

my delievery will be sometime in late march... this is based off of my order number that has already been slotted for november so i will be apart of the first production...