Doug
Your points are well taken and of course you're right except
for the supply and demand part. Call it demand and
financial rape maybe. The early buyers "should" have the
right to purchase at MSRP but are FORCED to overpay. Silly?
Poor Financial Management? sure, certainly their choice.
Just a damn shame.
George
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Ingram <dougi@home.com>
To: Spridget List <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 1:46 AM
Subject: Re: MSRP (no LBC content)
> George, why are you so reluctant to accept the simple fact
that supply and
> demand is in effect here, and why shouldn't people who are
willing and able
> to pay higher prices be able to do just that? Consider a
few things: the new
> Honda is not a necessity, but a voluntary purchase, a toy,
an ego booster,
> or perhaps even a substitute for whatever the buyer is
lacking in his/her
> life or in his/her character. Obviously, if they sell well
initially, Honda
> will produce lots of these cars in the future, and buyers
do have the option
> of waiting until the increased supply forces prices down.
But then, they
> wouldn't be the first on their block to have one, would
they. So, if they
> want to be first, let 'em pay, it's their right. Isn't
that what freedom is
> all about? The main fact here is that they have the
choice, don't they?
>
> The joke is on them anyways. They pay way over MSRP, soon
they will be
> available for under MRSP, and the depreciation for those
who overpaid will
> be huge. Ha! the fools.
>
> Gee, it's not like they're not making any more of these,
so how can they be
> considered so valuable?
>
> Doug Ingram
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Procyshyn <geopro@cyberdrive.net>
> To: David Riker <davidr@sunset.net>;
spridgets@autox.team.net
> <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 9:41 PM
> Subject: Re: MSRP (no LBC content)
>
>
> >"Nobody held a gun to any of these peoples heads. It is
> >simply supply and demand" What a crock of horse crap. And
if
> >anyone missed that let me repeat it, .... What a crock of
> >horse crap. These poor people KNOW that if they want
THAT
> >car they MUST pay the scum sucking car dealers gouged
price.
> >The fact that they pay it doesn't make it right, or fair.
> >Fair is MSRP and no more. And that doesn't include an
extra
> >$3-400. for undercoating or seat conditioning from a $6.
> >spray can. Just another way to screw the consumer. If
> >anyone really thinks this is supply and demand your as
> >gullible as these car dealers are scumbags.
> >Off list direct flames invited
> >George Procyshyn
> >'58 AN5
> >'74 Midget
> >'51 & '55 T cars
> >
> >
> >> A foot note to what started all this. I have heard
that
> >Auto West Honda in
> >> Roseville, CA sold out of the 4 allocated S2000's in
two
> >days at.......$6000
> >> over sticker. We had people wait two days to secure
> >financing on the first
> >> one we sold for...$39500 + fees. Nobody held a gun to
any
> >of these peoples
> >> head. It is simply supply and demand.
> >> David Riker
> >> 74 Midget
> >> 78 Midget
> >> 63 Falcon
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: <Ajhsys@aol.com>
> >> To: <davidr@sunset.net>; <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> >> Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 7:18 AM
> >> Subject: Re: MSRP (no LBC content)
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Speaking as a lousy, scum-sucking salesman, if people
> >will pay $10K over
> >> MSRP
> >> > for a Honda, that's their business. If no one said,
> >"I'll take it" when
> >> > quoted an inflated price, the price would come down
> >quickly.
> >> >
> >> > You have no one to blame but the consuming public for
> >setting a high
> >> price.
> >> > Granted, Honda has limited production of these cars,
> >which is driving the
> >> > price up too. But if nobody would pay the price,
Honda
> >would probably
> >> drop
> >> > the car because it wasn't selling.
> >> >
> >> > Stick to your LBC!
> >> >
> >> > Allen Hefner (LSSS Society of America, computer
> >division)
> >> > '77 Midget
> >> > '92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
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