Spoke to my local dealer last week ,, After going in numerous times to see if they will be getting them in , there answer was always not to sure . Anyway a month or so ago I was told that the owner was at an interstate convention ,where he was looking at the new models and he may order some in .
I gave him a bit of time and rang , he knew who i was straight away , not hard because apparantly i am the ONLY person who has enquired about them ,
End result was he said , if i want one he will take a deposit and order one in , but he himself is not going to order one , so he will not have a demo and none on the floor . Reasons he gave is he and other dealers he spoke to do not think it will sell , and the policy with Honda is buy it , sell it , if you get stuck with it , STIFF .
Like he said he has bought before, only for Honda, to then drop prices to below what he bought for, and he loses money trying to sell a bike he bought for more .
He does'nt think it will be a good seller , in fact he even questioned why i would want to buy it , stating that personaly he thought it was too little bike for too much money , , he said that there now even giving you the choice of tall windscreen or short screen , with a new purchase , relising it was a stuff up ,, But has he pointed out himself , where is the cruise control , heated grips , electric screen , all the goodies that come with other ESTABLISHED bikes for similar money .
Basicly he himself thinks itsgoing to be a bad seller and will be sold off at huge reductions shortly .
I feel sorry for the guy , buisness is hard enough and he seems like a genuine bloke , but i do know for a fact that the St 1300 the last models were $23000 and considered to much they could'nt sell them , so overnight they dropped them to $17000 and sold them all straight away ,, Also the gold wings , a couple of years ago overnight they knocked 10 grand of the price , to sell all the unwanted stock ,
Hence pissing of all the buyers who had paid the top dollar weeks and months before ,, not to mention guys like this dealer who got caught out with stock on the vfr , the goldwing , and the st 1300 , and he says he's not getting caught again ,
Funny enough , i asked him are you not bothered about honda penalising you for what you say , his attitude was i sell other brands they can please themselves ,
End result for me , is there is a dealer on the other side of town who has one , but i don't want to deal with that fella , and months later he still has the same bike , i can go interstate , but i'm not going to , because i do not want to buy a bike for $18 000 when i know soon they will drop the price and devalue mine even more than what happens naturaly . Plus if there own dealers do not have confidence and think its over priced , why would i buy one
The dealer i'm not going to mention who he is because i don't want to risk stirring the pot for an honest guy , they are too rare these days .
Shame really beause i did like the look of them , but without a test ride i'm just not going to do it .
Looks like i keep my rocket , or maybee go back to a thunderbird ,, who knows might even look at a fjr
Or just wait until they offer the ctx at a ridiculous price i cannot refuse .
I gave him a bit of time and rang , he knew who i was straight away , not hard because apparantly i am the ONLY person who has enquired about them ,
End result was he said , if i want one he will take a deposit and order one in , but he himself is not going to order one , so he will not have a demo and none on the floor . Reasons he gave is he and other dealers he spoke to do not think it will sell , and the policy with Honda is buy it , sell it , if you get stuck with it , STIFF .
Like he said he has bought before, only for Honda, to then drop prices to below what he bought for, and he loses money trying to sell a bike he bought for more .
He does'nt think it will be a good seller , in fact he even questioned why i would want to buy it , stating that personaly he thought it was too little bike for too much money , , he said that there now even giving you the choice of tall windscreen or short screen , with a new purchase , relising it was a stuff up ,, But has he pointed out himself , where is the cruise control , heated grips , electric screen , all the goodies that come with other ESTABLISHED bikes for similar money .
Basicly he himself thinks itsgoing to be a bad seller and will be sold off at huge reductions shortly .
I feel sorry for the guy , buisness is hard enough and he seems like a genuine bloke , but i do know for a fact that the St 1300 the last models were $23000 and considered to much they could'nt sell them , so overnight they dropped them to $17000 and sold them all straight away ,, Also the gold wings , a couple of years ago overnight they knocked 10 grand of the price , to sell all the unwanted stock ,
Hence pissing of all the buyers who had paid the top dollar weeks and months before ,, not to mention guys like this dealer who got caught out with stock on the vfr , the goldwing , and the st 1300 , and he says he's not getting caught again ,
Funny enough , i asked him are you not bothered about honda penalising you for what you say , his attitude was i sell other brands they can please themselves ,
End result for me , is there is a dealer on the other side of town who has one , but i don't want to deal with that fella , and months later he still has the same bike , i can go interstate , but i'm not going to , because i do not want to buy a bike for $18 000 when i know soon they will drop the price and devalue mine even more than what happens naturaly . Plus if there own dealers do not have confidence and think its over priced , why would i buy one
The dealer i'm not going to mention who he is because i don't want to risk stirring the pot for an honest guy , they are too rare these days .
Shame really beause i did like the look of them , but without a test ride i'm just not going to do it .
Looks like i keep my rocket , or maybee go back to a thunderbird ,, who knows might even look at a fjr
Or just wait until they offer the ctx at a ridiculous price i cannot refuse .
