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> The remaining all said basically they’re at the mercy of what Toyota makes and decides to allocate to their dealership.

This is what the guy at my sister-in-law's dealership said after I got on the phone with him and asked him what the heck was going on with her order when what she was telling me didn't make sense. Would have been nice for him to admit that up front instead of just taking her money and smiling.

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What one salesman told me is that they do have a system where they can enter allocation requests.

So they can enter into the system they want a '22 Tundra Crew Max with an exterior color of Lunar Rock and this/these packages.

Toyota won't specifically build that, but in theory if there is one built matching that requirement they should get it as an allocation. In reality, he said they never get their allocation requests.

Some dealerships (the 2 I mentioned in my research) tell people they're "ordering" when really they're just "requesting allocation."

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