Sea Glass Pearl in SE Region?

Sometimes Toyota behaves rediculous !
Why dont they let the customers decide wich colour they favor ?
They are all built at the same plant,it dosn´t make any sense at all !

 

Are you in a position to be able to order it further north or west and pick it up there? There are dealers all over the US that post here.

 

Well, you know, you shouldn't. But sometimes you can't overcome
bureaucracy, and you have to find a different path. I suppose it depends on how badly you want the Sea Glass Pearl color. I wanted that beautiful new dark purple that the liftback will be available in in Japan, but it isn't being exported to the US according to a couple of people here who are in the know, so I ordered Blizzard Pearl. "You can't always get what you want." to quote the Stones.
Sharol

 

Yes, some executive decided they didn't want to carry that particular color, presumably because they thought it would not sell well.

Noone has mentioned it yet, but the reason Toyota can't do anything about this is because the distributor in the SE region is a completely separate business entity, with sole distribution rights in that region. This is unique to the southeast region and the gulf states region. Hard to believe they won't even process a special order though. You might try asking at a different dealer.

 

I´ll keep my fingers crossed for you !

 

I am going to preface this by saying that this may not apply to SET (Southeast Toyota), but all other regions including GST has no restriction on color.

Now what may have happened is that the dealer you are going to and SET did not include that particular color in their order for the 2012 Prius 4. My guess is the marketing /purchasing department at SET decided not to order that color due their precieved idea it maybe a slow seller. Therefore the dealer looked at the inbound orders for SET and noticed none were ordered and incoming.

Because of that, the dealer didn't want to bother with having to tell SET to special order the color for a future allocation they decided to tell you that the color wasn't avaliable through SET. They would much rather sell you something inbound or in stock than having to order you something that can take anywhere from 3-6 months to get in. An special order/preference order vehicle's price can vary due to price increases between when the order was placed and when the vehicle arrives. Toyota does not provide price protection because the vehicle was ordered before the price increase. The effective price on the vehicle is when the vehicle arrives at the dealership.

You may need to find a dealer willing to order that color through SET and wait for it, normal time can be up to 6 months. When you place the order you will have to leave a deposit, usually most dealers require the deposit to be non refundable.

Again, I cannot state that SET will do that, but most other regions will.

 

You will be very surprised how often a retail sales manager will say something very similiar because they aren't aware of the process. Check with SET headquarters or the regional Toyota SET representative on that.

 

If there are certain color combo or options that aren't allocated to your region, there isn't much you can do other than finding a local dealer who is willing to go out of their way to acquire one at a port en route to other regions.

Otherwise, you might want to contact Dianne Whitmire here on PC and have her deliver a 2012 in Sea Glass to you.

 

It does make a lot of business sense not to allocate certain color combo or options that a region thinks won't sell too well in that area.

 

Does Sea Glass Pearl have any of the same glittery effect that Blizzard Pearl has?