A typical Exchange with a non-MSRP Harley Dealer...
#21
RE: A typical Exchange with a non-MSRP Harley Dealer...
ORIGINAL: Unome
Dealers I have been to WILL NOT give you a piece of paper to take out of the store to compare prices. They would fax a copy to a lender - i.e. bank or credit union - but refused to give me a copy of the terms we worked out on a bike. They didn't want me going somewhere else and getting their deal beat.
Dealers I have been to WILL NOT give you a piece of paper to take out of the store to compare prices. They would fax a copy to a lender - i.e. bank or credit union - but refused to give me a copy of the terms we worked out on a bike. They didn't want me going somewhere else and getting their deal beat.
#22
RE: A typical Exchange with a non-MSRP Harley Dealer...
ORIGINAL: SanRico
Not sure where you got your numbers , but straight m.s.r.p is on a
two-tone bike is $17,980.00 plus fright
Not sure where you got your numbers , but straight m.s.r.p is on a
two-tone bike is $17,980.00 plus fright
#23
RE: A typical Exchange with a non-MSRP Harley Dealer...
It's pretty simple really, the $$$ above MSRP that they can't account for is pure profit (read huge commission) that they will get from someone, if not you, someone will pay what they're asking. Best advice has already been given, get what you want from another dealer and then just for laughs, take your new bike back to your friend "MC" if you can find him (yeah, like that's real) and show him what you bought for over $3,000.00 less than what he quoted.
#24
RE: A typical Exchange with a non-MSRP Harley Dealer...
I have bought 4 bikes of a known above MSRP dealer and have never paid over MSRP from them. In two times I was at least $1300 below MSRP. If they know you are serious about buying, most will work with you no matter what the original asking price. If not there are plenty of other dealers that would be glad to take you money.
#26
RE: A typical Exchange with a non-MSRP Harley Dealer...
You have to go in person, also. Getting up and physically walking out in the middle of negotiations is a far stronger statement than just not e-mailing back.
My Dad used to take the whole family when buying a car so that when he didn't get his price it was a huge spectacle all of us standing up and starting to walk out. He always got his price.
My Dad used to take the whole family when buying a car so that when he didn't get his price it was a huge spectacle all of us standing up and starting to walk out. He always got his price.
#28
RE: A typical Exchange with a non-MSRP Harley Dealer...
Do what I did. I bought my bike from a nother dealer and now take it to the local for all warranty work. Boy are they pissed. The wouldn't give me the deal I wanted and someone else did. The GM told me next time to come to him and he'll make it right.
Jeff
Jeff
#29
RE: A typical Exchange with a non-MSRP Harley Dealer...
So many dealers are arrogant SOB's. They think (and know in some cases) that we are mindless pigs following the lead hog.. and that we will fall in line. When I bought mine, I chaecked out 5 dealers with-in 100 miles. There was about $2,000 difference between them. I paid about $250 over the lowest, but they were the closest.
#30
RE: A typical Exchange with a non-MSRP Harley Dealer...
ORIGINAL: phat96
That dance was already to long, and you just want to punch the saleman, move on, I'm Pheonix and Buddy Stubbs will sell it all day at MSRP. Fly in and ride home. No I don't work for them, but I get parts and service from them. In this vally they are the onlydealership worth dealing with. Good luck.
That dance was already to long, and you just want to punch the saleman, move on, I'm Pheonix and Buddy Stubbs will sell it all day at MSRP. Fly in and ride home. No I don't work for them, but I get parts and service from them. In this vally they are the onlydealership worth dealing with. Good luck.