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I have held an Ocean reservation since May 2021 (estimated ~14000th reservation). Early this week Fisker announced a policy to allow reservations to be converted to hard Pre- Orders to help with the imminent potential loss of qualifying for the US Federal $7500 tax credit. Fisker indicated that this policy would be available only until the House of Representatives had voted and the President signed it into law.
Prior to either of these legislative actions being performed, on Thursday 8/11/2022, I decided to convert my reservation to a Pre-Order (for an Ultra). When I went online to the Fisker site I was shocked to see that Fisker had declared that all pre-orders for the Sport and Ultra had been stopped and only the Extreme was still available for pre-Ordering.
What does this have to do with the stated purpose of the new policy that Fisker claimed was to help ALL reservation holders to have a shot at keeping the tax credit that was going to expire if new legislation were to be enacted? No vote had yet taken place in the House and certainly we were still days away from any Presidential signature to enact a new law.
Only those who have deeper pockets for an Extreme can still take advantage of possible tax savings and everyone else (regardless of whether we have been waiting for over a year or have gotten in line 40,000 reservations before others who just may have waltzed in this week, grabbed a reservation and then immediately converted to a pre-order and are now the only ones "guaranteed" to have a chance at tax savings and, equally important, have apparently taken priority in their delivery/manufacturing dates since those with pre-orders must have their Oceans both a) pre-Ordered before the new law takes effect and b) manufactured and/or delivered prior to the end of 2023 - the latter would bump others down and move us to the "back of the SUV".
This is NOT FAIR and, frankly, in my opinion, not a wise move with which to build confidence in the Fisker organization.
Especially since there IS capacity for Fisker to still take pre-orders and build $69,000 Extremes for 2023 delivery but not for $50,000 Ultras or Sports? I understand the business, profit and greed incentives in pulling the plug on the promised pre-orderability period for Ultra and Sport reservation conversion. It is a way to try and make reservation holders to buy the highest priced and most profitable model. However, it will backfire in the long run and even the short run since we are still dealing with an entity with no public retail address other than a website and we have only Fisker's word to go on - and reneging on such word within a matter of 4 days is not trustworthy. Stopping the pre-order program without warning (we had tons of "warnings" that the exclusive Ocean One would sell out in just a few days, then a week, then it actually took almost an entire month to sell 5000 units) while even on the day that the "$7500 "tax incentive preservation" pre-order conversion program pulled its plug on most reservation holders Fisker was still sending out e-mails about the program with no warning that later that day they would not be sticking to their original promise of offering pre-order converting up until any new legislation is voted on and signed into law. It appears rather transparent to me that this whole 5 day "offer" was primarily a way to try and increase higher profit vehicle sales and not much about helping loyal and patient Fisker reservation (and, in many cases, stock) holders to be able to afford their chosen EV dream car and what had been our favorite Fisker brand.
The right thing to do at this point would be to OPEN UP THE REMAINING EXTREME PRE-ORDER AVAILABILITY SLOTS AND OFFER THEM IMMEDIATELY ACCORDING TO THE TIMELINE OF RECEIVED RESERVATIONS FOR ANY OCEAN MODEL -and to do this without delay a) before the new law becomes enacted and b) to restore our rightful place in the 2023 delivery cue as well as confidence in our EV choice.
Prior to either of these legislative actions being performed, on Thursday 8/11/2022, I decided to convert my reservation to a Pre-Order (for an Ultra). When I went online to the Fisker site I was shocked to see that Fisker had declared that all pre-orders for the Sport and Ultra had been stopped and only the Extreme was still available for pre-Ordering.
What does this have to do with the stated purpose of the new policy that Fisker claimed was to help ALL reservation holders to have a shot at keeping the tax credit that was going to expire if new legislation were to be enacted? No vote had yet taken place in the House and certainly we were still days away from any Presidential signature to enact a new law.
Only those who have deeper pockets for an Extreme can still take advantage of possible tax savings and everyone else (regardless of whether we have been waiting for over a year or have gotten in line 40,000 reservations before others who just may have waltzed in this week, grabbed a reservation and then immediately converted to a pre-order and are now the only ones "guaranteed" to have a chance at tax savings and, equally important, have apparently taken priority in their delivery/manufacturing dates since those with pre-orders must have their Oceans both a) pre-Ordered before the new law takes effect and b) manufactured and/or delivered prior to the end of 2023 - the latter would bump others down and move us to the "back of the SUV".
This is NOT FAIR and, frankly, in my opinion, not a wise move with which to build confidence in the Fisker organization.
Especially since there IS capacity for Fisker to still take pre-orders and build $69,000 Extremes for 2023 delivery but not for $50,000 Ultras or Sports? I understand the business, profit and greed incentives in pulling the plug on the promised pre-orderability period for Ultra and Sport reservation conversion. It is a way to try and make reservation holders to buy the highest priced and most profitable model. However, it will backfire in the long run and even the short run since we are still dealing with an entity with no public retail address other than a website and we have only Fisker's word to go on - and reneging on such word within a matter of 4 days is not trustworthy. Stopping the pre-order program without warning (we had tons of "warnings" that the exclusive Ocean One would sell out in just a few days, then a week, then it actually took almost an entire month to sell 5000 units) while even on the day that the "$7500 "tax incentive preservation" pre-order conversion program pulled its plug on most reservation holders Fisker was still sending out e-mails about the program with no warning that later that day they would not be sticking to their original promise of offering pre-order converting up until any new legislation is voted on and signed into law. It appears rather transparent to me that this whole 5 day "offer" was primarily a way to try and increase higher profit vehicle sales and not much about helping loyal and patient Fisker reservation (and, in many cases, stock) holders to be able to afford their chosen EV dream car and what had been our favorite Fisker brand.
The right thing to do at this point would be to OPEN UP THE REMAINING EXTREME PRE-ORDER AVAILABILITY SLOTS AND OFFER THEM IMMEDIATELY ACCORDING TO THE TIMELINE OF RECEIVED RESERVATIONS FOR ANY OCEAN MODEL -and to do this without delay a) before the new law becomes enacted and b) to restore our rightful place in the 2023 delivery cue as well as confidence in our EV choice.