Seeing some leftover 2018 Manual GW Tours for $19,500 plus tax and tag OTD(this price not at Rockingham....They are slightly higher).....Sounds like a reason to return to the Goldwing fold!
Craig
Craig
Craig, quick follow up on your post. My Wing arrived properly set up, and without any cosmetic issues at all. Perfect condition. All in, I was just under $20k out the door. None of the dealers here in Virginia, NC, or MD (if they even bothered to respond to a pricing request) were within $3500 of my all in price. For me, that was the difference in buying now, or waiting to find a clean used one. I’m a happy camper.Would I buy from them again? Possibly but I would be leary if what Im buying is going to have scuffs and micro scratches from Improper/sloppy handling.
And lets not forget when you buy far from home, if there is a serious warranty issue the local dealer will not be so willing to take care of you if you didn't buy from them...I know any Honda dealer is supposed to take care of warranty issues, but it really doesn't work like that when there is a serious issue and the dealer has to eat some time..the dealer will tell you...why don't you take it back to who sold it to you...that's my experience with buying my last wing far from home.Back in September I thought about going out of state to purchase a new 2018 Goldwing Tour DCT. When you look at the out of state dealer's OTD price you have to add other expenses to find out what in the end you will be paying for the bike, such as traveling expenses, shipping expenses, sales tax and state registration. A lot of folks like to think they got a great deal because the dealer sold them the bike for $21,000 but then added all kinds of fees, which then jacks up the price to not so great a deal. I always make a deal for the OTD price then subtract sales tax and state registration to get the real price I'm paying for the vehicle. Once the OTD price is agreed upon, the dealer can write up the deal any way they want and add whatever fee they want but in the end it will end up being the same agreed OTD price. Another thing a learned many years ago when buying a new bike out of state is that in AZ at least, you will not only end up paying state sales tax but the city you live in will want their tax as well. Here in AZ, sales tax on a new vehicle is 8.1% in the city where I bought my bike, and vehicle registration is outrageous at nearly $500 for 1 year.
So lets say back in September I found a new 2018 bike in NC which was the right color and a Tour DCT model and they wanted $22k out the door. Then add in the tax $1782 and registration $500 and now I have the kinda OTD price of $24,282.00, but then I need to go get it. I could fly there and find transportation to the dealer, lets say $500, then drive the bike back to AZ, so fuel and hotels for 2-3 nights, so roughly $8-900 with food for the fly and drive retrieval. Or I could drive my truck and trailer to NC and trailer my new bike back home, 5-6 hotel nights plus about $600 for fuel round trip, so roughly $11-1200 with food for the drive and trailer retrieval. So now the real OTD price is between $25182-$25482 to have my new bike sitting in my garage at home. Still not a bad price but this price assumes that the bike I'm buying isn't dinged up when I finally get to see it after making a long journey, like many bikes are that sit on a dealer's showroom floors, and there isn't any problems along the road which there usually are in my experience. Now I have to take into consideration that the bike I'm buying out of state is a 2018 and not a 2019 and the 1 year depreciation on a new bike.
In the end I decided to buy a new 2019 Tour DCT from a dealership within 10 miles from me. Yes it did cost me just a few dollars more than me traveling to NC, about $1000.00 but the bike is a 2019 which to me is worth the extra $1000, and most importantly, I got to see up close what I was actually buying before I made a deal for it.
I don't count "other fees" such as freight, setup, and dealer processing as part of the OTD, because each one of those fees is negotiable. Some dealers don't charge any of those fees. Even Harley dealers aren't charging setup much anymore.To ME OTD is the Bike and any other FEES you pay. For example Freight, Setup, and Dealer Processing (or pure profit for them doing their job).
NOT these which are dictated by state and local laws.
Sales Tax
Titling Costs
Registration Costs