procedure for ordering your yaris??

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i find it odd that some dealerships are doing the "custom order" for the yaris, telling me that they will actually place an order to toyota itself to build our exact yaris. other dealerships are saying that there is no such thing as a custom order, and that when you place a "pre-order" you are bascially gambling that the yaris you want shows up somewhere on your side of the coast. i think i believe the second set of dealerships. however, i have seen yarii liftbacks with side airbags and other options that are NOT available in our region, being sold at local dealerships. they were designated as "pre-sold" in the online inventories. so it does LOOK like unavailable vehicles can be delivered to any region. its whether we want to play the waiting game or not. oh, and be careful with carson toyota. to pre-order a vehicle, they want you to fax them a copy of a check for $500 to act as a deposit. i told them my fears about having personal AND financial information just hanging out like that (addresses, acoount and routing numbers, etc...). i have been a victim of ID theft before, so i wasnt too excited about this awkward and unofficial procedure. when i asked for official documentation regarding this, such as disclaimers and privacy policies, they said to just look up their website. they then told me to order from another dealership, since we were asking too many questions about their faxed-copy-of-check-policy and they called us too high maintenance to deal with. if protecting your credit and identity is high maintenance, then i definitely fall into the high maintenance category...