Hello guys
My status: 2 refundable deposits down at the 2 closest KTM dealers to me.
From my understanding based off talking with multiple dealers, if you go through a "flagship dealer" (meaning they only sell that specific brand) you're least likely to pay inflated dealer fees (due to the bike being a new release and highly anticipated). Flagship dealer's dealer fees seem to be around $500 while general dealer's dealer fees seem to be around $1500. However, the few flagship dealers that are around say they'll definitely have more buyers on their waiting list than actual RC390's by the time they're finally released (estimated April EOM due to shipping customs backed up). The general dealers all say they have at most 1 person on their waiting lists if not any.
I guess you get what you pay for so yes, you're paying about a $1000 more through a general dealer (depending on how good you are with haggling) but because they generally have and offer everything and anything you can imagine for riding such as service dept, accessories dept, apparel dept, etc. etc., all which their buyers get exclusive discounts to (~15% off).
That being said, based off what both the flagship dealers and the general dealers are saying, is that money talks and the highest bidder will walk away with the bike.
That's as much as I know as of now. If anyone knows any better or has anything insight to add please share.
My status: 2 refundable deposits down at the 2 closest KTM dealers to me.
From my understanding based off talking with multiple dealers, if you go through a "flagship dealer" (meaning they only sell that specific brand) you're least likely to pay inflated dealer fees (due to the bike being a new release and highly anticipated). Flagship dealer's dealer fees seem to be around $500 while general dealer's dealer fees seem to be around $1500. However, the few flagship dealers that are around say they'll definitely have more buyers on their waiting list than actual RC390's by the time they're finally released (estimated April EOM due to shipping customs backed up). The general dealers all say they have at most 1 person on their waiting lists if not any.
I guess you get what you pay for so yes, you're paying about a $1000 more through a general dealer (depending on how good you are with haggling) but because they generally have and offer everything and anything you can imagine for riding such as service dept, accessories dept, apparel dept, etc. etc., all which their buyers get exclusive discounts to (~15% off).
That being said, based off what both the flagship dealers and the general dealers are saying, is that money talks and the highest bidder will walk away with the bike.
That's as much as I know as of now. If anyone knows any better or has anything insight to add please share.