12-04-2018, 02:14 AM
Thanks all for the clarification. When I bought my new 2017 EX in the summer of 2018, my dealer and I agreed on a price, plus the Honda listed freight charge of somewhere around $350 (the exact number escapes me), plus State sales tax and title fees. They didn't even suggest charging me a fee for set-up, which would not have happened if they had suggested it. When it was time to get all pricing details, they had a $150 doc fee that they said was non-negotiable and they could not waive. I had no problem with that at all, as long as they dropped the price of the bike from $10,000 to $9,850. This way they don't have to depart from their position that the fee cannot be negotiated, and I don't end up paying what I consider a total rip-off fee. I had looked at the bike on a first visit, and negotiated terms over the phone thereafter. If they had not dropped the price by the amount of the doc fee, I would not be the owner of that particular EX today. They were actually cool about it. It was an easy sale on a bike that had been sitting around a year.