The car I wanted wasn’t available at all within 500 miles. There were some like it “at sea” but a month out, I put a deposit on one, and the dealer assured me it was mine. They’d worked out a dealer trade, and already written a check to the other dealer, which they’d cashed. Two weeks later, about two weeks from the date I was supposed to get the car -
my dealer calls and says the owner of the other dealership sold my car to a buddy of his. He was told by his sales manager we’d already paid for the car and he said “I don’t care, I sold it to my buddy.”
I kept watching inventory at other dealers and passed on two other cars “at sea” that I could have put a deposit on, because I’d been told I had a lock on my car.
So I ended up buying my third choice, another model entirely. Now is the worst time to buy a car that I’ve ever seen…