MTPockets
Well-known member
This is long, but really strange..... Been looking around for several months for a new F350 DRW to replace our SRW... Two months ago we stopped at the local Ford dealer and after a bit decided to let them do a computer "build" of our ideal truck... So we sat down with their Truck guy who does all the ordering and he walked us thru all the options and answered all our questions about weights, payloads, etc., we decided we weren't ready yet to spend that much for our "ideal" truck so we thanked them and left. We looked around at other dealers as well. On Thursday, we found a truck we liked at a dealer about 40 miles away and worked up a deal, trade etc., I told the sales guy we would take it and offered to give him a "hold" payment, and we would be back on Tuesday with money to complete the deal. He said no problem, he would hold it and we could just do the whole deal then. We signed nothing and all he had was my first name..... On Saturday, I was driving by the dealer we visited two months ago - just to see --- The had two duallys in stock one white, and a red King Ranch, but it was over at the fairgrounds where the county fair was under way, so we drove over to the fair to look at it. It looked good, but I had to have numbers. Back at the dealer, we worked up some numbers and they looked quite a bit better than the out-of-town dealer, but there was a problem... This red King Ranch had been special ordered, but their system didn't have the customer name linked to the order. Since this was unusual, they had to check it out to see if this truck was available for sale. After talking to the truck guy, he said there was a couple in two months ago and he did a sample build and accidentally placed the order and never removed the Special Order status in their system..... That was me! .... They had just gotten it in and I waltz in the door and find the exact truck that I had a hypothetical build done two months ago ..... This was providence - so I drove it home and we're the proud owners of new red F350 King Ranch DRW.