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We are willing to spend 8K-$11K for the base MSRP on the bikes.
We spend hundreds, if not thousands getting our suspension tuned to our liking.
In some cases, we spends thousands more on additional bolt ons for the bikes in order to make them the way we like them.
We spend extra money to run race gas instead of pump gas.
We spend up to $600 on boots, up to $700 on helmets, and hundreds more on additional safety equipment.
We spend tens of thousands on campers, toy haulers, and vehicles to haul these bikes around.
We are willing to take the risk in a sport where a single crash can cost thousands of dollars for a single doctor visit.
If you're knee deep in this sport, then the dealer fees are the last thing you should be concerned with spending money on. If you don't want to pay them, then buy used or find a dealer with better deals. If you don't mind the fees because you prefer a new bike or you are ok with paying them to support your local dealer, then that's cool, too.
Dealers have a business to run. If you don't like how they run it, then don't shop there and find a different one. Poblem solved.
I don’t agree with the rest of your opinion though. Just because I spend a lot of money on something I love it doesn’t mean I should be ok with getting charged more. I love my wife and spend money on her, but if she cheats on me I’d leave her. Same with dirt bike dealer. I love dirt bikes and spend lots of money but if they screw me over I leave 🤷♂️
They give us good prices when supplies are high so why would we expect them to not charge more when supplies are low?
BTW, the overwhelming majority of riders I see don’t come anywhere close to the level of money spent you’re talking.
Pit Row
If a dealer is going to raise their prices, just f*ckin say it.
Do you actually read the shit you type?
So I should just let a dealer fuck me in the ass because I spend cash on other things in life?
If the dealer isn’t a douche he’s gonna possibly get the helmet, boot, gear and parts sale from me too. I’ve got lots of dealer friends, they’ve had good and bad times like everyone else. Right now they are cleaning up and it’s well deserved. No dealer I’m friends with is starving or laying people off.
The dealer gets a check at the end of the year for every unit sold. It is called "holdback," and it is basically a reduction in invoice cost. I don't know exactly what the dollar amount is on an MX machine, but it's a few hundy on each bike. Hmmm, the same few hundy that it costs to ship the machine to the dealer? Maybe....
So there goes the freight, for the most part.
As for "setup," they pay a low-tier mechanic $40 per flagged hour to do that job. The service department "charges" the sales department a half hour or full hour of labor to do the PDI on the unit. That's $20-$40 actual dollars going out to somebody, but $40-$80 dollars charged to the sales department. If they charged me $80 in "setup," I'd understand; they are covering their department's costs. $300/$400/$500 in "setup" is a markup, however.
Let's be honest and call it a markup. That said, every dealer has the right to markup their product how they see fit, just as AGN is free to buy at any another dealer.
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All of the 2022 KTM/Husqvarna Motocross and off road motorcycles my local dealer ordered are already committed. They are trying to get more, but KTM can only produce so many bikes.
No Gas Gas bikes until September at the earliest.
First, again, having not bought a brand new bike in a long time, I think it's pretty crappy for the manufacturers to tack on that $485 mandatory shipping fee and then make the dealers the bad guys who have to break that news to customers.
I used to work at a dealership, and I certainly know they have to make a profit and that margins aren't huge. But no, I'm not going to feel bad about calling someone out who is blatantly marking up a product just because they can.
But I took some advice from this thread. As I continued to call around, I paid attention who who was nice and who didn't seem to give a shit that I wanted to buy a $10K TOY from them. I found the best price at a dealer about 5 hours from me, and I was willing to drive it. But I took a shot by calling back a closer dealer, one of the ones that was actually FRIENDLY and RESPONSIVE when I contacted them at first, and asked if they could come close to the other dealer's price. They couldn't match, but they came close enough that I'm sure it would offset my time, gas, etc., to get to the other dealer. Plus, I'm hopefully starting a great relationship with a dealer closer to home. I sent them a deposit and I should have a '22 350 SXF as soon as it arrives.
I am SO ready to get this process over with and speak with my wallet!!
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