What is Buffer Launch Supply

drkeng · 01-15-2007, 01:19 AM

This is listed on my order as an option (the last and one I don't recall choosing or being asked about):

998 Buffer-Launch Supply

What is it?

I found it listed as an option on a new car for sale at Baron BMW, a dealer in Kansas (via a Google search).

I shudder to think that it is a premium dollar amount added as a buffer due to short supply of cars at a new model's launch.

gjdavies · 01-15-2007, 07:18 AM

I suspect it indicates a car that was ordered without an end customer waiting for it, i.e. it was a car brought into the Country to bring stocks up ready for Launch.............. Worth checking the VIn to see if you can find a manufacturing date.

Ask the dealer. They may tell you more.

STE92VE · 01-15-2007, 08:57 AM

Are you sure it's not Buffet Lunch Supply? Maybe it's for deli meats and side salads for the dealership? You know, salesmen have to eat sometime.

MacAttack · 01-15-2007, 09:57 AM

That's reaching way out there...

...but you can't rule out everything.

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gjdavies New Member 0 Rep 21 Posts Drives: E90 320d (in 3 months :-() Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: UK iTrader: (0)	I suspect it indicates a car that was ordered without an end customer waiting for it, i.e. it was a car brought into the Country to bring stocks up ready for Launch.............. Worth checking the VIn to see if you can find a manufacturing date. Ask the dealer. They may tell you more.
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STE92VE STEVIL Empire 226 Rep 6,297 Posts Drives: Fast Join Date: May 2006 Location: Long Island, NY iTrader: (0)	Are you sure it's not Buffet Lunch Supply? Maybe it's for deli meats and side salads for the dealership? You know, salesmen have to eat sometime.
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