As I ordered mine mid March ‘21!What YEAR are we talking?
T6.1 new order delays
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As @Ricardo T asks - which 31st March were they referring to - 2021 or 2022?
VW's whole rationale for the dis-honouring of price protection is that inflation has eaten into their profit margin for vans ordered 6+months ago, so I'm very sceptical about this (but I hope you're correct and that VW have come to their senses).
VW's whole rationale for the dis-honouring of price protection is that inflation has eaten into their profit margin for vans ordered 6+months ago, so I'm very sceptical about this (but I hope you're correct and that VW have come to their senses).
The only correspondence over the last year has been ‘good news, your unconfirmed build week is…’…. followed by ‘ sorry your build week has dissapeared’!
No mention of any price increases to date, and tbh if he told me now of a price increase at this late stage I would be quite p****d off! But I’m not going to jinx it by mentioning it!!
No mention of any price increases to date, and tbh if he told me now of a price increase at this late stage I would be quite p****d off! But I’m not going to jinx it by mentioning it!!
Stuart Docchar
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Before March 22
Stuart Docchar
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He said he was pleased they had decided this because he would have had to ring his customers to tell them of the price increase
I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it,,,I’m not going to jinx it by mentioning it!!
Okay, in that case it really does sound like a significant change of heart from VW. I'll hope for a call from my dealer to retract what he told me last time he called.
Stuart Docchar
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Hop so having said that I would have preferred the call saying it has arrived but it’s going to cost you £1000 extra and you can collect tomorrow
March 2021, also had removable towbar, lane assist, tailgate latching, rear bulkhead and washer fluid level indicator as options.
Looks like what they say. Year to wait. Looks like i’ll get mine end of June. Give me more time to save for toys! Bentley alloys, coilovers, ICE etc….
Now then chaps this has all got me mightily confused. With demand being so high I daren't say well I'll cancel my order then
Think I'm confused too mate. Let me try and summarise - as much for myself as for you!
Pre-pandemic, VW's policy was to guarantee that the price you agreed at order would be the price you paid at delivery - known as price protection. Recently, my dealer informed me that any van delivered after 31 March would lose price protection and that the list price as at delivery would be payable. That message has been relayed by other dealers to others on this thread, though by no means by all dealers.
VW's reasoning for this change in policy was that, with longer delivery times and higher rates of inflation, their profit margin was being significantly eroded (and, frankly, they'd much prefer it if their customers suffered those loses, rather than themselves).
However, @Stuart Docchar's dealer has, today, given a different message: namely that only vans ordered after 31 March will lose price protection, which would indicate a significant change of heart from VW. Given that many on this thread, like myself, have been waiting for their vans for 10+ months and that there have been several intervening price rises (with potentially more before we see our vans), this is potentially very good news. I say potentially, only because I can't totally discount the possibility that @Stuart Docchar's dealer is "off-message".
Hope the above helps, and apologies if any of it is teaching you how to suck eggs.
Not meaning to be sceptical here but is @Stuart Docchar having an aprils fool day on us . All everyone has heard is price increase , price increase ,prices increase now they are back tracking a mean I would love it to be true but will wait and see
Stuart Docchar
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Sorry people
I can just say the dealer said yesterday there was a meeting and a decision was made not to put the price up and he didn’t need to ring his customers and tell them orders before 31march 22 hope this makes sense
I can just say the dealer said yesterday there was a meeting and a decision was made not to put the price up and he didn’t need to ring his customers and tell them orders before 31march 22 hope this makes sense
Hi Stuart, which dealer was this? I see your based in Hexham was it Newcastle on the foss way?
I don't doubt what @Stuart Docchar is saying, though I do wonder if his dealer has got it right (if only for the reason that, if it were true, dealers from across the network would be spreading the good news).
Marcus Edouardo
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Well I am surprised by this news!
Looking down the barrel of economic meltdown VW has a 'change of heart'?? A moral conscience ??- Will they be calling it 'The peoples Van'?
Looking down the barrel of economic meltdown VW has a 'change of heart'?? A moral conscience ??- Will they be calling it 'The peoples Van'?
Were VW actually facing economic meltdown though? Lots of folks (me included) would have begrudgingly stumped-up the extra cash and, with supply so constrained, VW could have easily found customers for any orders that were cancelled as a result. Either way, VW would get more money per van by ditching price protection.
I agree that there would have been a longer-term reputational hit, but, as we saw with the emissions scandal, when VW make a call between hard cash and an intangible downside, hard cash wins. So, for me, it remans a mystery as to the motivation for this change of heart (...in fact, it makes me doubt whether there has been a change of heart at all).
Very nice. Guessing it won't be a work van then?
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Marcus Edouardo
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If this is a wind up.. it’s gonna go down like a bucket of wings at vegan wake!
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