Their is a mom & pop dealer up in Kingman AZ I do most my business with and they educated me that orders for the West Coast are placed in September for the following years model by each dealer who must decide if they want to carry the inventory. Inventories are then shipped to regional warehouses but belong to the dealer who made the order. If no order is made by the deadline, no more inventory is shipped for that model year and dealers must negotiate with other dealers who have stock on hand in the regional warehouse or on the showroom floor for a commission if the dealer agrees. Your dealers didn't place any orders because he didn't feel he could move the product and is just making an excuse.
Well, you might want to find another source for your "education" there, bud.
Designated shipments come into the U.S. as they are built off the assembly line. One batch will go to the U.K., one to Canada, then to the U.S. When they arrive in port they are distributed to the warehouses and those dealers who put their orders in first get priority. That's why there is a surplus here and a shortage there.... until they figure out what sells best where.
Dealers who sell more get proirity on the warehouse inventory. For example, Drinnon's in West Plains sold 2 B1250's in the first 2 weeks... so the warehouse immediately shipped another one to them... it's now on the showroom floor.
The next U.S. shipment will either be a batch of red standard models, or a batch of blue ABS models. I think Betty mentioned something about the ABS ones coming next, I'm not sure.
I'm just glad I ordered my B1250 last winter, so I got the color I wanted and didn't have to wait any longer...
