I got lucky on the last visit at the stealer. 21.00. Probably the first time under 100.00

 

That is exactly what he told me I had to do to get the 2010 accessories book.

 

I buy most of my parts online. You guys think it's expensive in USA. Welcome then to Sweden...here you can call them for Stealer with a capital $...

An example. A "Lockset Complete" P/N 53442-03 costs here in Sweden 454,31 $.
Retail price USA = 146,00 $.
I payed 116,80 $ + 20,00 $ (shipping) from Chicago Harley.

That is what I call a huge saving for me. I can have a lot of fun with the 317,51 $ I saved on this particular buy.

 

I totally agree with you! One thing I learned & you might want to try is asking them to match the price of other dealers. The dealership I buy my parts from would rather give me the 20% than me walk away & buy from another dealer online. It's just a thought, it worked for me.

 

 

Well, this isn't Sweden, but how about this one? I wanted to change my license plate mount from the above-the-taillight style like the Ultra to the below-the-taillight style like that on an Electra Glide Standard for a cleaner look and so I can mount a detachable TourPak. Of all the parts I needed, there are two screws that hold the LED tag light on (very small screws) and the price for these screws was ............................$23.68 ......EACH!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, I didn't buy them. I got lucky and found a new take-off entire assembly on eBay for a fraction of the 'discounted' price I was getting.

Or Harley's same price for every TourPak they have, Razor (a joke), chopped or king sized. Ought to have ankle straps at the parts counter!

 

Harley doesn't make enough money selling new bikes to buy toilet paper and Kotex for a month at their corporate headquarters.

Most all of their profit is made by selling aftermarket and upgrade parts. Every Harley dealership you go into has a huge parts counter, all kinds of parts catalogues and more clothing and accessories than Macy's.

Opps........and don't forget excessive maintenance fees for silly stupid things you could do yourself in a short period of time.

Buy a new bike and the first thing most dealers do is start suggesting about changing this or changing that. The new bike isn't even out the door yet and they want you to drop hundreds more into changing it. I thought everybody recognized this trick. Harley has them well schooled in marketing.

 

If I was building something that a million people would buy I would sell it at Wall Mart for a buck.

If I was building something that a 100k people would buy I would sell it at Macy's for $10

If I was building something that 10k people would buy AND it has to withstand out door extremes AND be stable while going down the road at 70 mph, I would sell it at the HD store for $100

It's simple supply side economics.

You want cheap? Buy a Honda Civic.

You want unique? (just like everyone else) Buy a Harley

By the way, I have the Harley fever bad.
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