Anyways, the dealer said it will be ready sometime toward the end of the month.
As long as those extra shipping costs isn't passed down to us when purchasing the vehicle, I'm good.
No worries. For those who live on the left coast and don't realize it: All Destination charges on all vehicles of a given model have to be equal, regardless of distance or actual cost, by law (since sometime in the 70's or 80's). If you look at the sticker of a given year for a given model Expedition in a Louisville, KY, dealership, within site of the Assembly Plant and compare it to yours on the left coast, the destination charge will be identical. Same for all of the lower 48. It goes back to a bunch of franchise lawsuits caused by a bunch of Detroit Dealers that were selling cars with low destination charges to people in vacation destinations like FL, TX, AZ, etc. and paying college students to drive them and deliver them while on breaks and flying back, at lower cost than the destination costs to rail/convoy the vehicles.
This is also why, when supplies get tight, the states that are the furthest from the Assembly Plants, with the highest actual shipping costs are starved for new vehicles. The car companies are incentivized to sell out production to the closest dealers.
Of course, crazy or not...I still by my new vehicles from Detroit area dealers even though I live in NC. They tend to be way more knowledgeable about the vehicles and I get Company pricing, so I pay the same regardless.
