I copy / paste my post on Civic FE thread with minor changes:

Was disturbed to read about this last week, but couldn't get more information until today. Talked to my trusted SA regarding this, and we discussed extensively - my dealer / SA is not doing this, but allegedly some dealer / SA in KV is doing 70% w/o SST and 30% w/SST. SST cars need to wait for your booking queue, w/o SST you don't need to wait, can get immediately. Reason why they're doing this is that some SA may need to wait quite a while for their customers to get their car, thus no commission. Or new SA might need to wait until next year if need to wait until w/o SST cars to be cleared. Thus, they are doing this to ensure customers who booked their cars before SST deadline still get their cars according to their booking queue, and SA who can sell SST cars get their commission now, rather than wait their customer queue.

The w/o SST cars may be coming from booking canceled or buyers with unapproved loans. Also, this is done mainly by the Sales Advisor. Dealer will definitely get their cut, but SA might not have another buyer w/o SST in hand with the same model/variant/colour. Hence, when their customer fail to get loan/cancel booking, they will offer to others under w/SST. If another SA in the Dealership get the car, they lose their commission.

The above writing is purely speculation between myself and my SA, not sure whether this is the correct / only reason.

I’m a bit confused - do you mean w/o SST orders are being fulfilled only by leftover units from SST orders?

Ooops, sorry. I meant the w/SST cars are coming from those who cancel booking or unapproved loans. Dealer might have others in their queue that want the colour/variant/model, but the SA will lose the commission. Thus, the SA will offer to others who want the car earlier & don't mind to pay SST.

So to put this into perspective… let’s say in a situation:
A placed booking before SST deadline
B placed booking before SST deadline as well, but behind A in the queue
C placed booking after SST deadline

We’ll assume all three booked the same exact variant and color.

If A gets an allocation, but decides to cancel booking, are you saying the SA gets to decide where to allocate A’s unit next? Instead of going to B, the SA can instead offer the unit to C?

Too simplistic. Better illustrate like below:

A placed booking with SA1 before SST deadline (booking #1)
B placed booking with SA2 before SST deadline (booking #100)
C placed booking with SA1 before SST deadline (booking #101)
D placed booking with SA1 after SST deadline (booking #500)

Assumption: A,B,C,D booked same model, variant, colour. No other

Let's say car for A arrived, but A's loan was not approved. The Sales Manager gave SA1 a deadline of 1 week to to get A's loan to be approved or his client's allocation will go to SA2. SA1 can either offer to C or D. If they reject coz dun want car now, SA1 will advertise outside and SA1 will be desperate coz only have 1 week deadline to register before he lose his commission.

This is much better. I understand now. Thanks for putting this together.

In that case, I’m guessing mine is gonna take months.

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Too simplistic. Better illustrate like below:

A placed booking with SA1 before SST deadline (booking #1)
B placed booking with SA2 before SST deadline (booking #100)
C placed booking with SA1 before SST deadline (booking #101)
D placed booking with SA1 after SST deadline (booking #500)

Assumption: A,B,C,D booked same model, variant, colour. No other

Let's say car for A arrived, but A's loan was not approved. The Sales Manager gave SA1 a deadline of 1 week to to get A's loan to be approved or his client's allocation will go to SA2. SA1 can either offer to C or D. If they reject coz dun want car now, SA1 will advertise outside and SA1 will be desperate coz only have 1 week deadline to register before he lose his commission.

I can’t think of a logical reason why D would decline right? He gets the car sooner, pays the same amount or less…the only reason is he can’t afford / cannot get loan approved?

So then the SA1 still goes and advertise openly?

Too simplistic. Better illustrate like below:

A placed booking with SA1 before SST deadline (booking #1)
B placed booking with SA2 before SST deadline (booking #100)
C placed booking with SA1 before SST deadline (booking #101)
D placed booking with SA1 after SST deadline (booking #500)

Assumption: A,B,C,D booked same model, variant, colour. No other

Let's say car for A arrived, but A's loan was not approved. The Sales Manager gave SA1 a deadline of 1 week to to get A's loan to be approved or his client's allocation will go to SA2. SA1 can either offer to C or D. If they reject coz dun want car now, SA1 will advertise outside and SA1 will be desperate coz only have 1 week deadline to register before he lose his commission.

haha, i wonder how many cars does a dealer received in a month. i was told by my SA that my queue is 34. and he mentioned only aug will know when i will get car allocation.

Could you share the date you placed your booking?
I have seen one guy booked in 12th June and took delivery 2 days back. RS red.