Originally Posted by landho
Car sales month are not calendar months. Many times, the first weekend of the next month is part of previous month's sales...And the month always ends on a Monday...don't know why...So a June 1 sale to you may in fact be in May's sales #. But it has nothing to do with when the dealer ordered the car from the OEM.
A few months ago Chrysler changed their way of closing out the month regarding dealerships. The dealership now has to record via the internet the month's deals by the end of business on the last day of the month. Prior to this, the dealership could back date the paperwork to the prior month and submit it to Chrysler. One reason dealerships would do this was to allow the customer to take advantage of the prior month's rebates if they were better than the new month's incentives.