The $38 tour includes a bitch, whine and moan session with a factory rep about the high prices for bikes, accessories and service.

 

Ever been to Budweiser, they have a whole mess of tours.....and none of them are free. I would imagine insurance to cover any type of tour is astronomical. So to have a freeby one and a paid one...well done MOCO....well done. We are lucky that there is any tour at all in this day and age of sue happy dooshcanoes. I know most factories will stop you at the gates.

 

Carl Lemmle's studio tours were free when he first started them and look what they cost now.

 

Wrong analysis. Think of a factory tour as an advertisement. The advertiser pays for the advertisement, not the consumer.

 

That's pretty silly. There's no nobility in being foolish with the dollar, and there's nothing admirable about paying too much.

I was looking at a new Voyager. It was an extremely nice bike. It had everything offered on the Road Glide at half the price.

They seem to hold up well, too.

 

Unless a smart advertiser can get the consumers to pay for it.

 

so it’s kinda like a forum...

 

Ive been on lots of brewery tours and if I paid it was just a few bucks, and you usually got some beer at the end, maybe even a glass. $38 seems like a lot, But maybe it is just niche that only a few people do since you have to schedule it. Since they also have a free one, I guess oh well.

No one ever said Harley cares about the customer.

Does it end at the gift shop? Every tour ends there.

 

I did the free York tour a few years back, but they had a "hardhat and boots" tour that you had to schedule and pay for. Its nothing new...