Man O Man, here's another compliment......Your bike is BEAUTIFUL.

 

I was beggining to think that I was the only person that felt like that....

 

They offered me $13k for my bike (stock paint). Wouldnt have been a bad trade with 33,000 miles on it, but i would had been basically giving away $3500 in my engine mods with only a year on it. Just couldnt do it. I was going to have the 103" put in the heritage right from the get go, dealer installed. They wouldnt budge on the price. (this was a brand new 07, with 08's already on the floor. Thought maybe there was some wiggle room for being a year leftover already) If i was an ambitious fellow i woulda went home, tore my bikes engine down and put it back to an 88" and resold the 98" kit. Man, that woulda been alot of work!
Next up, chrome rims and front end.


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the dealer game is a joke, you just pay for the convenience of being able to walk in, hand them the keys, and leave with a brand new bike. it just depends onhow much that convenience is worth to you

 

Yeah - it's no different than with cars, boats, etc... it's just basic consumer economics, right or wrong. Regardless of what you're trading with, trade-in value is always considerably lower than used sale price.

 

well thats b/c the dealer has to go over it machanically. (no matter what kind of vehicle it is) so that costs him to pay his machanics, he has to addvertise it,and he also has to give atleast a 30 day warrantee. well he does in N.J anyway. so if u add all that stuff up the dealer is still fvkin u,b/c there is no way that they need to make 5k profti from ur vehicle. the usual profit margin for them is 2-5k. its b/s. but more poeple trade things when they are up-side-down on the loan than poeple who are in a good possition to make a deal.

the dealers prey on how much u want the vehicle. i never test ride,or let them run my credit until we have a number of trade-in for my vehicle. thisway when u don't make a deal,u don't have the inq on ur credit.
all in all. THEY ALLLLLLLLLLLLL SUCK ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

 

I traded inmy '05 Deuce for a '08 Softail Custom a few weeks ago. The deal I got was my bike, which was paid off, and $3,500. But of course you can't finance anything less than $5,000through Harley, so I HAD to order a new exhaust and some other goodies to get the amount financed up. I'll be putting about another $5k-$6k into it over the next few years to make it stand out from the crowd. A big chunk of that money is in a paintjob and wheels.

 

I traded my 06 1200 sportster in last month for an 08 FXSTC. I went into the dealer knowing that I was going to take a hit on it (didn't think it would be as much as it ended up being), and yeah I ended up wastinga lot of money on the upgrade from a sporty to a softail, but I have absolutely no regrets about it. When I walk up to my newbike right before I'm about to take her out on a ride, I have a smile from ear to ear just thinking about the ride to come, and to me that's all that really matters because you only live once.

 

Live2Ride if you don't mind me asking why the switch from the Duece to the Standard

 

I always buy a bike without considering the trade in value as I want to ride it. However Harleys seem to be extremely expensive compared to the majority of other bikes i have owned. What can ya do? I'll keep mine forever and hopefully buy a new one hwen I have the cash. That is far off but it will happen one day.