So the allotments should be spread out evenly across the board . So everyone waits the same amount of time and every one can enjoy what they work hard to get .
Yamaha is not part of a socialistic commune. They are an international business. And like the largest car dealers, RV, Snowmobile, Ag equipment, the MFG will cater to the dealers that do the most volume. Why do you not see the mom and pop chevy dealers that sell out of a catalog anymore, because they do nowhere near the volume of the dealer that has his name on 10 car lots in two cities. That's just business. And as we see car dealers, and powersport dealers alike consolidate and grow, the low volume dealers fold or get bought up. It's business. And the MFG will not allocate as many, or give priority to a dealer that does a fraction of the business, that's just foolish.
There is no fairness, other than push some volume and get the attention of the MFG. There used to be a local business man in our region of MN, that decided he wanted to control the potato market. he purchased or leased every bit of potato growing land between central MN and Idaho. He also built most of the potato processing plants. So large that one plant produced 10% of McDonalds French Fry production. Do you know who's attention he got when he needed equipment? John Deere.
So to be sure he got what equipment he needed annually, what did he do, he bought every JD dealership from MN to Southern Texas. Who's dealerships do you suppose got the largest allotment of green tractors every year, his. Because he was known to move the most green equipment in the world. (There is my little synopsis of Ron D Offutt, in case you were curious)
As much as their marketing may say otherwise, MFG's don't produce product to sit in their inventory, or the dealers inventory. Just in time production is based on getting just enough raw materials to produce what they know they can sell. They produce every unit to sell, and they will follow the path of least resistance every time. Again, it's business. Don't take it personal, but Yamaha and every other powersport mfg is in it for profit and not dreams.
Every powersport forum I am a part of has at least 2-3 threads about folks talking about order lead times, lack of inventory, or how long they have been waiting on their order. On a related note, have you tried ordering a new pickup in the past two years. If you had, you would get a better idea of how not being transparent is a new norm. Some do it better than others, but for the most part, you will have little idea when that truck will come in.
Polaris has an online order tracking system. As they assign a VIN to the customer's order when you place an order for a new Polaris General SXS. And even to that point, you know when it is in production, being crated and shipped to the dealer. Yet folks still are filling forum threads, with "how long does it take to do dealer prep" and "why did my dealer take two weeks to uncrate my sxs" Levels are transparency are relative, and how much information is too much.
