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G'day I-K, can you PM me the dealers name and phone number, I want that hugger for the ZXR750, Thanks.
Les

tanyathecheeky wrote:It doesn't work that way

Where individuals can buy stuff overseas we simply can't.

We have to buy it through the local distributors or the brands involved can ban us from dealing with them. So our hands are tied. (i think there's legal stuff involved too - not quite sure)

So therefore we have the item, distributors markups, then ours. Its an urban myth that bike shops make a lot of money out of items.. some stuff like alpinestars, it would be cheaper for me to import myself than pay staff prices through work, and staff is cost plus 10%.

And then ppl walk in and demand a discount.. try telling kmart that

I agree totally with all that TTC!! I ran a bike shop for a few years, and mark up on a lot of stuff is only 30%. Then you take a discount off that, then another if they are a loyal customer, then you calculate a few items through theft, plus some old stock which won't sell but you have to have so you have a range and sell it off at cost or below and a dealer is lucky to make over all 10% before expenses and taxes.

Bike shops unfortunately do not enjoy massive 100-200% mark ups which some of the other retailers do. Not saying they can't make money. Properly run they can and do. But it's not a massive amount a bike shop makes on you when they sell you an exhaust system or a leather jacket.

Even new bike sales these days are skinny profit making depts if at all. In most cases, if the new bike sales depts of most franchised dealerships actually had to cover it's costs determined by floor space usage, a lot would be losing money. It is often just a means to trade used bikes, sell accesories and parts, and obtain service work, which will pay the bills.

Think of it logically if a business has two bike sales guys, earning say 50K each, that's 100K alone to employ them. If a dealer averaged $500 profit per new bike sold, then they would have to sell 200 bikes a year to cover just the wages alone not including all the other insurances, taxes, workcover etc required to employ someone, then the rent and phones and other costs involved.

Thats 17 bikes per month. Doesn't sound a lot, but it is. Some dealers do less than that believe it or not. Some obviously more.

Strika wrote: I agree totally with all that TTC!! I ran a bike shop for a few years, and mark up on a lot of stuff is only 30%.
Bike shops unfortunately do not enjoy massive 100-200% mark ups which some of the other retailers do. .

mate...ive been in electrical (betta) and gas (gas plus) and we make around the 15-30% depending....sumtimes wen our comp puts out a catalogue, we have to sell sum appliances at 5% for a month, just to TRY and compete...

from experience...Jewellery, Sunglasses, Sports goods are where the big mark-up is...

from experience...Jewellery, Sunglasses, Sports goods are where the big mark-up is...

Anybody checked out the mark-up on 'Adult Novelties' lately? That's where the big money is.

Daisy wrote:from experience...Jewellery, Sunglasses, Sports goods are where the big mark-up is...

Anybody checked out the mark-up on 'Adult Novelties' lately? That's where the big money is.

really??

hmm DAISY hey?? daisy is a ladies name...hmmm...hi daisy...mwahahaha

just kidding...kinda...

Neka79 wrote:

Daisy wrote:from experience...Jewellery, Sunglasses, Sports goods are where the big mark-up is...

Anybody checked out the mark-up on 'Adult Novelties' lately? That's where the big money is.

really??

hmm DAISY hey?? daisy is a ladies name...hmmm...hi daisy...mwahahaha

just kidding...kinda...

its also a name for a cow

but then again u like rooting cows

Neka79 wrote:hmm DAISY hey?? daisy is a ladies name.

Yes it is. You were saying...?

Daisy wrote: Anybody checked out the mark-up on 'Adult Novelties' lately? That's where the big money is.

So you made your $$ selling plastic/rubber cocks eh
I.K would be delighted to know U sell em. Give him da biggest one U got.

Course not. I have this friend you see.

les2010 wrote:G'day I-K, can you PM me the dealers name and phone number, I want that hugger for the ZXR750, Thanks.
Les

It's the Canberra Motorcycle Centre, in Fyshwick, ACT.

From memory, it wasn't labelled with the model it fit. Did anything change swingarm-wise between the ZXR750J and L?

FWIW, though, it's only been relatively recently (say, the turn of the century) that carbon goodies available from the a/m manufacturers have stopped being just good-looking crap looking for an excuse to wobble off.

I have an older design of carbon hugger on my ZX9. It attaches at only three points and, as a result, it flaps around and contacts the rear tyre, with some lovely fatigue cracks starting to spread out from where the hugger section joins the chain guard. I'm waiting for it to fall off before I replace it with the plastic hugger I have lurking in the garage.

I-K wrote:

les2010 wrote:G'day I-K, can you PM me the dealers name and phone number, I want that hugger for the ZXR750, Thanks.
Les

It's the Canberra Motorcycle Centre, in Fyshwick, ACT.

From memory, it wasn't labelled with the model it fit. Did anything change swingarm-wise between the ZXR750J and L?

FWIW, though, it's only been relatively recently (say, the turn of the century) that carbon goodies available from the a/m manufacturers have stopped being just good-looking crap looking for an excuse to wobble off.

I have an older design of carbon hugger on my ZX9. It attaches at only three points and, as a result, it flaps around and contacts the rear tyre, with some lovely fatigue cracks starting to spread out from where the hugger section joins the chain guard. I'm waiting for it to fall off before I replace it with the plastic hugger I have lurking in the garage.

hey that soounds like my hugger..then again, mine has chunks missing from tyres steel belts (burnouts + hugger = destruction)


as for u mina...we will leave the cow rooting to u mate...since u name ALL the animals u root..and since its legal in vic...