Excuse the following rant!
Many dealers are ripping people off. I called two dealers which has adds on cycletrader.. One of them for $3690... I called them and they had no idea what the actual price was going to be.. They listed the bike for $3690 but actually had no idea what they were going to sell them for.
The other dealer told me to add $1200 to the price for Doc, freight and other fees. That's not including Tax, tags and license. Do the math and you are talking about $5500 out the door for a $3999 bike.
To be clear,, the fees added by dealers are in most cases pure profit. If the dealer sells a bike at MSRP.. they are already making a profit. They do not pay MSRP for the bike. A prep fee is ridicules because that's what the dealer is supposed to do.. That's part of his work to earn the profit he is charging in the first place. A DOC fee is also bogus. Again, this is the sweat equity. Filling out paper work is part of a dealers job. This is what earns them the profit.
What many dealers are really doing is passing on their cost of doing business to the customer. They are saying, "we want to make money on the bike and also make the costumer pay the dealership for the work required to complete the deal".
This is not an honest relationship. The seller has costs that are his responsibility. By simply passing on all costs on to the costumer, the dealer becomes nothing more than middleman. He is offering you no service. He is simply a middleman there to take profits.
Think about it. I have a flooring business. This equates to me giving a customer an estimate on a tile installation and then charging them a fee to deliver the tile and materials to their house and than charging an addition fee to right up the bill.
Delivering the materials and righting the bill is MY cost of doing business. That's part of my sweat equity. That's where I earn a profit.
Honda of Russellville will sell you a brand new 2011 CBR250r for $3999 NO other FEES!. I would buy one if I were not on the east coast.
This is not spam. I don't know these guys from a hole in the ground.
Many dealers are ripping people off. I called two dealers which has adds on cycletrader.. One of them for $3690... I called them and they had no idea what the actual price was going to be.. They listed the bike for $3690 but actually had no idea what they were going to sell them for.
The other dealer told me to add $1200 to the price for Doc, freight and other fees. That's not including Tax, tags and license. Do the math and you are talking about $5500 out the door for a $3999 bike.
To be clear,, the fees added by dealers are in most cases pure profit. If the dealer sells a bike at MSRP.. they are already making a profit. They do not pay MSRP for the bike. A prep fee is ridicules because that's what the dealer is supposed to do.. That's part of his work to earn the profit he is charging in the first place. A DOC fee is also bogus. Again, this is the sweat equity. Filling out paper work is part of a dealers job. This is what earns them the profit.
What many dealers are really doing is passing on their cost of doing business to the customer. They are saying, "we want to make money on the bike and also make the costumer pay the dealership for the work required to complete the deal".
This is not an honest relationship. The seller has costs that are his responsibility. By simply passing on all costs on to the costumer, the dealer becomes nothing more than middleman. He is offering you no service. He is simply a middleman there to take profits.
Think about it. I have a flooring business. This equates to me giving a customer an estimate on a tile installation and then charging them a fee to deliver the tile and materials to their house and than charging an addition fee to right up the bill.
Delivering the materials and righting the bill is MY cost of doing business. That's part of my sweat equity. That's where I earn a profit.
Honda of Russellville will sell you a brand new 2011 CBR250r for $3999 NO other FEES!. I would buy one if I were not on the east coast.
This is not spam. I don't know these guys from a hole in the ground.
