Inconsistency of Reservation/Configuration/DDE Dates

[Schmimbo]

Still waiting for something and I have really lost hope at this point. Tired of this website forum and pining for my smart. Celebrated my 1 year reservation May 28. #1243 and still looks like its going to be very late 2008 to 2009 before I get my smart. If I get my smart. Ill probably be too broke with fuel bills and piss my down payment away at the local Mobil Gas Station in the waiting for my smart. A complete disapointment from where I started out a year ago at this time. Cant wait to get my smart but this wait and where I live deal and my slow dealer delivery problem has caused me to just give up and stop thinking about it for the most part. Trying to stay focused on other things and when my phone rings from my dealer I may just come around. I use to think about how cool my new plate would be for my smart and coming up with trick vanity plates. Now I've chosen to get a plate that says "453 Days" or whatever the real count comes to in the end. That way other so called "smart insiders" will get it and the people who bought orphans and had no clue about the wait or reservation program wont get it at all.

[dd1]

Originally Posted by Old smart

If you reserved that long ago and have not received the C&C invitation email, you need to call smartUSA. They told me that all reservation "accounts" stay active until the reserver requests a cancellation, even if the reserver is found or finds themselves much later than their original contemporaries. And if they missed their original C&C invitation. But the onward process does not start until after the last day of the 10-day or-so window presented to C&C.

If you check in with smartUSA today and say "Here I am finally," and they say "OK" and send you the invitation email later in the day to C&C with a closing date of 20 JUN, you don't go into the line until 21 JUN.

Old smart,

Jimbo and I are in the DFW area where C & C can me at least a year away, or more. I reserved around the same time he did with the same results. Smart's reply, I don't see anything yet just wait.

[Jimbo]

Thanks, Old Smart. I have called several times. Each time I have talked to a different person in customer service. I tell them my story, and all of them have said something like: "My, my, you should have been invited by now. What's your zip code?" I tell them, and they say "Oh...I see..." Then they proceed to explain that the reservation date is but one of the many and varied components of what goes into an invitation to configure and confirm, all of which I apparently just suck at doing or being for them to find me worthy of such an honor.