Call it what you will, Thomas, but HD has sold bikes this way for over a decade now 
and made damn good money at it.  Now that there are fewer bikes than buyers (hey, 
wait.....Yamaha has said for years that sport-tourers have no buyers) individual 
dealers are free to gouge the shit out of us.....er....I mean, use creative pricing.

Sigh.

Phil

P.S.  Check out the price on a new T-bird.  Even in southern New Mexico they go for a 
minimum of $10,000 over sticker, and sticker already has huge profits built in for 
dealer and manufacturer both.  In the words of "Field of Dreams"--"Don't build it and 
they will come."


"Thomas H. Keyworth" wrote:

> Apparently you needed a $500 deposit down earlier this year.  Even then they were 
>over sold (as mentioned below) and a special order had to be made to the factory to 
>make good on those sales.  No one really knows anything about the 2004's -- color, 
>ABS, availabilty, etc --  but the only thing I did get out of it was to plop $500 
>down at my dealer in February to reserve the 2004.
>
> Sounds like a really fu__ed way to sell a product if you ask me.

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