17 hours ago, MaximusMeridius said:

 

I don't know if it is luck or just the fact he ordered 2 months later for a higher price. There must be a reason for Skoda reporting this: "Mladá Boleslav, 22 March 2022 – ŠKODA AUTO increased its earnings in the past fiscal year compared to 2020 despite the pandemic and the shortage of semiconductors." Us getting our cars is their last priority, that I am sure of. Keep in mind I know of one more case, where our partner got the car in roughly the same time frame as my coworker and it is an Octavia PHEV.

 

He is satisfied, no problems so far.

I think the problem is that Skoda are being very business like in their approach, even if it seems unfair to those waiting ages.

 

Whilst they cannot build cars quickly they have a choice of supplying a more recent customer paying a higher price, or supplying an already unhappy customer paying a lower price.  If they supply the latter, then need to delay newer order so potentially have 2 unhappy customers.

 

So in a world where can’t build enough, it is commercially sensible to just leave the old orders in a queue, knowing many will eventually cancel.   Not what some want to hear, but least worst choice for Skoda.  Especially if there are no late delivery penalties in contract.

Of course those part built and stored have money invested in them, so completing them and getting paid is beneficial to Skoda.  But doing so requires staff time that means the production line cannot run as normal.

Edited 27 March, 20224 yr by SurreyJohn

25 minutes ago, SurreyJohn said:

Whilst they cannot build cars quickly they have a choice of supplying a more recent customer paying a higher price, or supplying an already unhappy customer paying a lower price.  If they supply the latter, then need to delay newer order so potentially have 2 unhappy customers.

How can they have potentially 2 unhappy customer? It is a just a fact that if they help the person that ordererd first they would only have one unhappy added customer. If they help the new customer they have a bigger risk to lose the old customer for buying a car in the future. Your reasoning that this way is commerciually sensible i do not agree at all.

We are just trying to find some kind of logical explanation of the situation. 

Afaik with all the messages, there is no logic at all. And no doubt there are orders pushed forward via via like it is been done on all kind of professions.

Ofc, I had to sign an annexe that the delivery period can last longer than the initial 6 months in the contract. A fellow member who is also from Slovenia mentioned loads of Octys that were being delivered to our Police. I’m sure they had a deadline and some penalties in case the delivery gets delayed. Us mortals can wait.

5 hours ago, Omniking said:

How can they have potentially 2 unhappy customer? It is a just a fact that if they help the person that ordererd first they would only have one unhappy added customer. If they help the new customer they have a bigger risk to lose the old customer for buying a car in the future. Your reasoning that this way is commerciually sensible i do not agree at all.

I agree, it can be option in short-term, however it's total nonsense in long term strategy, because Skoda want a loyal client, who will buy every new model, if you will ignore client who have ordered car I have doubt that they will choose again Skoda. And i think as big VW AG are, they want to play long-term game. 

I love how all these assumptions are being made with zero evidence to back them up. 

2 hours ago, MiniNinjaRob said:

I love how all these assumptions are being made with zero evidence to back them up. 

Well, we’ve got plenty of time 😉

Edited 27 March, 20224 yr by Ajdolin

Yeah guys, stop feeding your imagination

 

Ask your dealer. Just tell them that a co worker ordered later but received earlier. Tell them you're just curious, not after he's head

3 hours ago, timster said:

Yeah guys, stop feeding your imagination

 

Ask your dealer. Just tell them that a co worker ordered later but received earlier. Tell them you're just curious, not after he's head

 

We have the same dealer. He doesn't have a clue how this is possible and starts complaining, that he ordered his car last spring (understandable) and adds that the whole team is bewildered. 

 

When there is no information about what is going on, imagination is rampant. Whose fault is that? Skoda, .

Edited 28 March, 20224 yr by MaximusMeridius

Hey, my build week has supposedly been pushed back a bit, from week 22 to week 20. Now as I finally got some info I am nagging my dealer every week 😊. How about you guys, any news?

15 minutes ago, Ajdolin said:

Hey, my build week has supposedly been pushed back a bit, from week 22 to week 20. Now as I finally got some info I am nagging my dealer every week 😊. How about you guys, any news?

Monthly update from our dealer yesterday, still no information or build date. He used the wording "heavy delays on new cars" which I'm maybe reading too much into but, sound like they are suffering across the board.

Actually really feel for the guys as their commission is based on needing to sell x number of used, x number of new, x number of products etc. It is then scaled up depending on what they hit, but they need to hit all of them to move up the bands, with no new cars coming through it must be pretty stressful. 

4 minutes ago, Hawk89 said:

Monthly update from our dealer yesterday, still no information or build date. He used the wording "heavy delays on new cars" which I'm maybe reading too much into but, sound like they are suffering across the board.

Actually really feel for the guys as their commission is based on needing to sell x number of used, x number of new, x number of products etc. It is then scaled up depending on what they hit, but they need to hit all of them to move up the bands, with no new cars coming through it must be pretty stressful. 

I heard that they still sell quite a lot of new cars per month inspite the waiting time.

9 minutes ago, Hawk89 said:

He used the wording "heavy delays on new cars"

It's ok, most of us here are waiting for OLD cars 🙃... Some are close to one year (if not longer).
No news on my order.

41 minutes ago, Ajdolin said:

Hey, my build week has supposedly been pushed back a bit, from week 22 to week 20. Now as I finally got some info I am nagging my dealer every week 😊. How about you guys, any news?

Wasn't your car in production already? 

2 minutes ago, Senaid said:

Wasn't your car in production already? 

Yes, maybe I should have used the term delivery week 😊 so delivery around week 20. No details on production stage though.

Just now, Ajdolin said:

Yes, maybe I should have used the term delivery week 😊 so delivery around week 20. No details on production stage though.

Which seller ?

 

I am happy for you 

12 minutes ago, Matej10 said:

Which seller ?

 

I am happy for you 

Porsche Verovskova. I keep my fingers crossed, but we’re not out of the woods yet.

32 minutes ago, Ajdolin said:

Yes, maybe I should have used the term delivery week 😊 so delivery around week 20. No details on production stage though.

Ooh different story then  

My delivery week is week 15... 🧐

30 minutes ago, Ajdolin said:

Porsche Verovskova. I keep my fingers crossed, but we’re not out of the woods yet.

I order in čepin i as today i stiil dont have any date 😞

32 minutes ago, Matej10 said:

I order in čepin i as today i stiil dont have any date 😞

And you ordered in July… nothing whatsoever?

14 minutes ago, Ajdolin said:

And you ordered in July… nothing whatsoever?

not i didn't get any date to this day

4 minutes ago, Matej10 said:

not i didn't get any date to this day

They can’t be serious 😒

16 minutes ago, Ajdolin said:

They can’t be serious 😒

seller is the best is i touch we me all the time i think i selected such problematic additional stuff 

19 minutes ago, Matej10 said:

seller is the best is i touch we me all the time i think i selected such problematic additional stuff 

Like what?