The Only Reason You Should Pay More Than You Have To...

[davidsargee_imp]

Does everyone assume that the price they were quoted by the dealer is the same price that the next person receives, or the person after them?

There are a lot of variables to consider, what it comes down to, is how badly does the dealer need to move the bike? Are there volume-based incentives, perhaps? I don't know how they operate, but in the car business, dealers that sell the most units, get better prices. I don't know if motorcycle companies do that as well, but I would suspect they do. If a dealer is only a unit or two away from an incentive, they are prone do "whatever they have to", to get the sale, and the incentive, which could very well boost their profits not on just that one bike, but on several others that have already sold.

I know that some dealers have larger "sales floor" allotments than other dealers, and if they have too many bikes, they risk losing some to other dealers unless they sell them.

Maybe, they have new models coming in, there are a lot of factors, at the end of the day, it depends upon how motivated the dealer is to sell a bike.

So I would think not, you can't assume you are getting the same deal, better or worse, than the last customer, or the next one. You just make the best deal you can, if you don't like the deal, walk away. If you are happy with the deal, buy the bike and forget about it.

Cheers