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[Scalyback]

how come you can get a Continental GT in the states for $5999 dollars, but it cost £4999 pounds here? I expect a little discrepancy but...



my currency thing says that today, £4999 = $8386



and that $5999 = £3576. So it is about £1500 cheaper in the states? or we are paying an extra third on top?



not happy.

[Norm]

Scaly they are about $10,000 out here

[jaffa90]

$5,999,
http://www.bikewale.com/news/1139-royal ... ategy.html

[Scalyback]

Oh right, that was February. Don't suppose they fancy doing the same thing over here?

[Scalyback]

AUS $10,000 ?



OUCH!

[apparently lucky eddie]

Rule number 1 when buying a car or bike is to offer what you want to pay, not what a dealer might be asking, and go from there. Most dealers on most items will knock off 10% or more rather than lose a sale. If they won't give a discount or load you up with a large amount of free extras then walk, there's always another time and another bike. Last year I had best part of 20% off of a brand new car and last w/end 25% off of a diamond ring for 'er indoors. If you don't ask for, insist upon, or even demand a discount, you won't get one. Treat a dealer like a market trader and haggle because unlike a market trader a dealer will have huge overheads to cover and can't afford to lose a sale. And NEVER tell them how much you have to spend cos that will be the price.

[Exile]

Some of these price differences will be due to import costs and local taxes. For example, here in Denmark, we pay as much as 50% more for cars and motorcycles than the UK. My wife bought a new Citroen C1. In the UK they go for £8,425.00. Over here, the equivalent of £12,500.00. That's with no extras and on offer from the dealership..


If I tried to import a used old Brit bike, I'd end up paying more than double the price of it in import duty and taxes.


Greedy nanny state...

[PeteF]

Quite right Eddie. It's just that English people don't like to haggle. Why not? You don't need to be friends with the seller - it's a business arrangement so treat it as such. I always ask for a discount and usually get something. Just got 20% on a new car which was about £2500 in my pocket rather than his.

[Lucho]

Agree whit @Exile. But things could be worse: here in Argentina, I payed (July 2014) U$S 13500 for a Bullet Classic EFi. Last January goverment put a new tax on cars and bikes. A Bullet Classic now costs U$S 15900. At least, R.E. representation customer service is a real plasure.

A GS800? It's yours if you have U$S 40000. And sometimes you have to wait 18 months to get it at your door!
In the case of cars, a Ford Focus full specs (for our market), fall last month within this internal tax: Prices before/after: U$S29168 / 44136. A Ferrari California? From U$S400k to nearly 900k, but i don't have plans to buy a Ferrari in the next months.

I can make just 2 orders of physical items on internet (in foreign stores), per year, with a differential exchange rate (35% plus), custom tax not included (50%). If I want to put a 3rd order, got to go to Customs Dispatch to get it. So i'm planning carefully my next buy, even some screws and nuts, to Hitchcocks to include everything I need.

This taxes only make a huge drop in car sales, and star to impact on employment. Consecuences of being ruled by a bunch of noobs in economics. This is Argentina, you know...

Sorry if I'm falling in Out of Topic, I need to make some catharsys.

[Lucho]

A correction to my last post: 13500 Us dollars for a Classic Efi in July 2013.