Our Enclave wasn't quite at MSRP, but not a whole lot lower. Certainly not near invoice or supplier pricing. So no reason for our dealer to bump another order ahead of ours for financial reasons.
In our case, I'm suspicious that as a smaller dealership they simply don't have an allocation slot with which to place the order. The story I've been given so far is that the only order ahead of ours was accepted by GM and assigned a build date, and ours is waiting next for GM to pick it up. When I ask about allocation, they insist that it isn't anything on their end but rather are simply waiting for GM to accept the order.
Needless to say, I'm skeptical. If I ask a directed question about whether they have an allocation slot available for this month, or next, etc., I expect a direct response. So far, all I get is "we're just waiting on GM at this point" which seems a very vague and dodging way to answer the question. Could mean they are waiting on GM to give them an allocation slot for all I know!
Friendly people, but they are car salesmen after all. I don't trust any of them, even if they are from my own hometown and somewhat friends of the family!
GM needs to do something to sort this mess out, for the Enclave and for any future vehicles that may actually be popular, as were the Solstice and Sky. God forbid this happen again two or three years from now and customers get shafted once again.
Ordering should be date prioritized, geographically neutral, and a fully transparent process (i.e., you ordered the lux package, so some non-lux package orders that were placed later will go ahead of yours, but on the nationwide lux-list you are #592... here, look at the list for yourself, we can keep you updated, etc.)