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Old 12-01-2008 | 10:02 PM
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There are five dealerships in West Virginia. Morgantown, Nutter Fort, South Charleston, Hico and Huntington plus one right on the Ohio/WV border in Marietta, OH. All six of these seem to be holding their own. Only time and customer loyalty (read as good customer service) will determine if they all survive.
 
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Old 12-01-2008 | 10:07 PM
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There are 3 dealers within a 50 mile radius of me, and 3 more within 100 miles...no closings or rumors of future closings that I'm aware of...
 
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Old 12-01-2008 | 10:14 PM
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#1 seller and largest can have two different meanings or criteria. I would think that #1 seller would be based on gross sales (bikes plus everything else) and largest could mean several things like sq. ft, units sold, market hype.
 
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Old 12-02-2008 | 12:07 AM
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All dealers around here seem fine. Always seem to have people there and looking at bikes.
 
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Old 12-02-2008 | 12:15 AM
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Originally Posted by danmo
All dealers around here seem fine. Always seem to have people there and looking at bikes.
Agreed - and we have 8 dealerships within about a 40 mile radius of Milwaukee.
 
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Old 12-02-2008 | 01:51 AM
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Dealership in Apeldoorn (central Netherlands) closed in September and combined with Amsterdam - lots of inventory as a result so hard to tell if much is moving. Amsterdam dealer was open last Sunday; mucho public in spite of snow. Service is personal but then I've bought 4 bikes off him since 2000. Dealer in Amersfoort claims to be #5 in Europe in terms of sales - nice layout. Dealer in Alkmaar could use new location; good guys - good service. Don't know about the others but there are 11 dealers in NL with total sales of 1300 bikes per year so they got to be makin' their bucks on accessories, service & clothing.
 
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Old 12-02-2008 | 01:56 AM
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There are quite a few dealers in the Chicago area, and I haven't heard of any of them closing, or rumors they will close.
 
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Old 12-02-2008 | 05:35 AM
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The Local Dealers are still up and Running here in the New Orleans area!
 
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Old 12-02-2008 | 06:07 AM
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the local dealer was throwin them out the door this time last year, but when i go in i see the same byks that have been there for months, they say there doin 7-10 a week still massif drop on last year. they will also deal on new & used stock, they droped the price of a cvo springer £1k, if i wanted it but still to rich for this poor farm boy! my buddy whos a salesman there said they need to sell units to reach target, if they do they get a£300k bonus of the moco.
 
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Old 12-02-2008 | 06:17 AM
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there is three dealers in a 50 miles of me here in desmoines iowa. and i was at two just last weekend both busy. and the one two bikes was sold while i was there and it was snowing.with the way thing's are some will more and likely go down some will stay. but that is with alot of thing's right now.
 


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