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25/10/2011 9:08 am
Insane Ford dealer mark-up.
This morning I was at my local Ford dealer looking for parts for GF's Mustang. There was a nice white Shelby GT350 in the showroom. I stopped to get a good look at it and to check out the price. The window sticker showed:
Mustang GT: $30K
Conversion by Shelby to GT350: $50K
Wow! $80K total price!!
Then I saw a price sticker the dealer put on the windshield:
'Added value: $65K'
Total price: $145K!!!
WHAT?!?!
Priced for the well to do car collector no doubt. I wonder if the poor car will just be a garage queen shown only at Shelby get togethers?
I'll have to be satisfied with a 1/18 model of it.:((
Hate to see the price gouging on the upcoming Camaro ZL-1!
25/10/2011 12:04 pm
Stuff like that is crap!
It's just a Mustang! I can take a base model Mustang and make it out perform that car in every way and still not have 1/3 of the money in it. That's insane. I hope the dealer dies of old age decades from now with that car still in his showroom.
25/10/2011 12:29 pm
Actually for me I have no problem with the dealer...
... charging as much as they can. If I don't want to pay the price then I
won't buy it. It isn't like there aren't literally tons of other options.
25/10/2011 12:30 pm
Greed is rampant in this country. Mostly because so many now are willing to pay too much for almost anything! even in a recession.
some of the 1% are 99% clueless as to value per dollar.
ruin it for the rest of us.
25/10/2011 2:27 pm
Is the dealer GREEDY; or the buyer STUPID!
He would be greedy if we HAD to buy that car from him; we would be stupid IF we bought it from him. Let the buyer be ware. Why not ask that price; if someone is dumb enough and has that much money to burn, why shouldn't he be able to help out the person with too much money.
25/10/2011 9:23 pm
Imagine how many 1/18s would $ 145K buy :))))
26/10/2011 3:09 am
It would almost buy our 1:18 warehoused!