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Originally Posted by Jiggles
It's supply and demand. Think of it almost like a bidding war. The dealer has a low stock highly desirable item. That drives the price up. If its the last bike on the floor and one guy will buy it for $4500 OTD, well another guy will come around who doesn't want to wait for another one, so he will pay $4700 and so on. It's not that some sucker is going to pay more, its that the bike is actually worth more.
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No. Summer 2008 was the peak of the 'supply-vs-demand' argument. Dealers had pre-sold
ALL their allotted 250's before they even got off the boat from Thailand. And they were still only charging their normal BS markups and fees.
Now you have so much supply that bikes are sitting in showroom floors (my very small dealer has 3 or 4 250's, vs 2 ZX-10's and 1 ZX-6), obviously not enough demand for them to all be sold, and you have dealers charging thousands over MSRP. Because there are enough suckers to buy them at that price that the dealer can sell less and make the same profit.