How to tell if the dealer is giving me an allocation they don’t actually have?

For context, I’m trying to get a 26 RAV4 LE in northeast US. I called a bunch of dealers and they all pretty much told me they could put me on the list once they got allocations. One dealer told me they got an allocation yesterday that hadn’t been built yet. I said I’d take it, they told me about some of the features on it (mudflaps, cross bars, sirius xm, all weather mats). I asked if those could be removed. They told me that because the car hadn’t been built, they could ask for those to be removed. Dealer came back to me and told me everything but the…

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