Sorry my friend, then you bought the wrong brand of bike! :yeah:deputydog95 said:i haven't been on here long enough for you to realize how cheap i am![]()
The best you can do is perhaps wait till a shop has an open house, etc. I tend to do most of my major parts and accesory purchases at this time. Most decent places usually will have some kind of discount during this event, maybe save 10% or so on each item.deputydog95 said:seems like all the online retailers sell it for msrp. anybody discount this stuff?
How many 600rr's will be sold? How many 999's?Full system for my 600RR $699. Full system for Ducati $3,000? WTF is that?
How many Vette's are sold? How many different years and models of cars can that muffler bearing be amortized amongst? What kind of R&D is needed ? We're talking 'bout a pushrod V8, rightA set of nice mufflers for a corvette $800. A set of mufflers for Porsche $1500-2000. I'm sure there wasn't any more technology or parts that went into the Porsche mufflers.
rocha2000 said:How many 600rr's will be sold? How many 999's?
The cost of development (R&D) for a system can be spread out amongst the many more thousand Hondas that will be outfit with aftermarket exhausts than relatively small-market Duc's.
How many Vette's are sold? How many different years and models of cars can that muffler bearing be amortized amongst? What kind of R&D is needed ? We're talking 'bout a pushrod V8, right? Some of those questions might point to the 800$ price tag for that car's widget, while the same questions should be looked at to your 9xx Porsche... yeah I can hear it already, "a 911 and it's variants have been around for 30 some-odd years too"....
Not trying to bust anyone's balls here, just think out loud why stuff cost's what it does.![]()
ToucheJohn said:I don't buy it. I'm in manufacturing/sales and it has a lot to do with what you can get, supply and demand and the wow factor. Why do Cadillac parts cost more than a Chevy? Its because Cadillac owners will pay more.
John, You sell microfiber towels, drying clothes, and polishing pads...that is a huge market in comparison to Ducati parts or even Porsche market ( I owned a wheel/tire and accessory warehouse for import cars in the 80's before it got popular-- so I have a little experience with this).John said:I don't buy it. I'm in manufacturing/sales and it has a lot to do with what you can get, supply and demand and the wow factor. Why do Cadillac parts cost more than a Chevy? Its because Cadillac owners will pay more.
Probably because you were at a KINGS game.moto said:My friend asked me how big the Ducati market was while we were at a basketball game. I looked around at the huge crowd and said: "how many people here do you think rides sport bikes here? How many do you think rides a Ducati?" I think less than half of the people in that crowd know what a Ducati is...let alone own one.