Yep. Sad thing, some dealers don't get it, mine included. Oooops, I should have said my ex-dealer.

 

My dealer will have a 20% off sale 4 or 5 times a year. I try to wait till the sales. They also offer 20% off on anything from the P&A catalog if it is not in stock. It usually will take 3 or 4 days to come in.

 

Be careful! I've been to some of my local dealers "20% off" shindigs.
The f-ker was marking stuff up above catalog price, before deducting the 20% off. Took a buddy of mine to point that out or else I might have been snagged myself.
Seems like the general public don't have the catalog prices memorized. He he!

The online dealerships are good about taking 20% off the "real" price and sometimes they even go 25%.

Dog eat dog world my friend, and I think our undies are dog food flavored.

 

The dealer I use is a LARGE dealership and the owners have stores from FL. to NH. they sell large volume and could give a discount, but they don't. I do buy small items from time to time from them but for the big $ stuff I go to the net. I told the parts manager that, but they really don't care. maybe there just too big.

 

Bingo. I have bought stuff from internet shops, and the invoice shows it was shipped straight from the manufacture. So theoretically a person in a small office can process orders and doesn't need a big store to house the items

 

I got an email from Mark @ M&M Cycles.
He was selling the HD Premium Oil Cooler for $245 plus shipping.
Went in to my local dealer yesterday, asked how much the cooler was.
Parts guy says "$299"
I said "I can get it for $245 plus shipping"
He says, "Hang on, let me look"
He then says best he can do is $255 plus tax.
He tells me "I can take care of my good customers"

I didn't buy it yesterday, but if I do I'll buy from my local dealer at his price.
I'd rather support my local dealer and pay the $10 bucks extra.

Not to mention that my little company is one of their sub-contractors.
I don't really need to bite the hand that feeds my face, either.

 

Our Motor Company isn't gonna stop any dealer from discounting parts and accessories...not as long as the economy is the way it is. HD needs all the business it can get right now.

My local dealer in Jax FL, regularly offers 10, 15 and 20 percent discounts. For military, they offer 10 percent every day. I bought my scoot from Bumpus in Memphis and except for the day of the sale, that was the only discount they ever offered.

 

Don't be too surprised if it happens. I've heard the MoCo is actually planning on cracking down on all number of promotions by dealers . . . (in as much as they are legally allowed to do so).

 

Chicago HD does alot of internet business volume so they can stand to make less on each sale. Smaller non-internet dealers do a low volume-high margin business.

 

I have always said Walmart will own us all someday.