CB1100 on clearance

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Actually dealers want to get rid of any old stock. They'd rather talk about and sell the latest greatest. My dealer also has SUZ. New GSX750S. New Gixxers. VStroms. All the other Hondas. Leftover Valks.

Mostly, though, they want to MAKE A PROFIT. It's why they're open.

Only a very-foolish dealer or one who's going out of business, will sell his inventory at a loss. Automobile dealers "floorplan" - borrow money by the day to pay for inventory; and if inventory sits there, they get more anal-retentive on it, not less so. There are exceptions; and sometimes a dealer may give up and sell at a loss and vow never to again have that model/type in inventory...but not many. Because dealerships are businesses and many have business managers with firm rules about what can be sold for what. The house may have less in a vehicle straight off the truck than in one that's been on the lot four months; and so a salesman may be given more room to play with numbers on something where there's no floorplanning overhead.

I don't know how it works with cycles, where inventory can sit around your a couple years or longer; but it would seem reasonable that at least some large-volume dealerships have similary operating rules.