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Originally Posted by Jonny69
Dont be so quick to blame the businesses working as you describe in red above. They are doing the best they can and trying to make a profit.
You need to blame the manufacturers. They are the ones allowing this type of selling to go on. Remember they don't care about YOUR customers, only selling bikes in the largest quantities they can.
The trend for target hitting has killed all the profit margin on new vehicles and removed any allowance for the dealer to do any favours. This is all why main dealer servicing is an absolute rip off.......................another story.
Anyway good luck to anybody trying to run their own business. Although an unrelated industry I have my own business and am very thankful that I don't have to put up with the average model shop punter as you guys describe them. I have enough stress without wanting to end up the psych ward.
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Hello, im not saying ALL big dealers are like this but i can name a big franchise that is! and i worked there! I can also say that it was a matter of simply shifting units at whatever costs. There was no intention of hurting smaller dealers and everyone worked their nuts off, but now working for a family run smaller dealer i can see the effects it had.