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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    you'd really want to have a limited liability company setup before entering into any agreement.
    Wouldn't make any difference in most cases - anyone who has a financial stake isn't going to rely on a closely held limited company - they'll insist on personal guarantees over everything, on top of securities over personal assets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ribit View Post
    Dont bother setting up one in Auckland.

    There's already 12 plus a couple of scooter dealers that i know of.
    You missed Botany Honda.
    AJ / Motohaus
    Another in Kumeu (name escapes me)

    Then, probably more telling, is all the dealers that have gone under in the last 5 years (arbitrary number).
    - Haldanes
    - TMG
    - Triple X Moto
    - dang... I know there were more
    Quote Originally Posted by Jane Omorogbe from UK MSN on the KTM990SM
    It's barking mad and if it doesn't turn you into a complete loon within half an hour of cocking a leg over the lofty 875mm seat height, I'll eat my Arai.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DODO`` View Post
    Katman. Fuck off. Keyboard warrior.
    Last I heard Katman was better qualified than the average keyboard warrior to comment in a thread like this. He was reputed to be the owner operator of a small motorcycle related business? Mind you it is true that his online manner does sometimes need work.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Last I heard Katman was better qualified than the average keyboard warrior to comment in a thread like this. He was reputed to be the owner operator of a small motorcycle related business? Mind you it is true that his online manner does sometimes need work.
    Well. as they say if u can survive here on KB, you can survive anywhere.
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    As I understand it, becoming a motorcycle dealer is much the same as becoming a drug dealer.

    Except with More motorcylces and motorcyclists and less cocaine and crack whores.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDemonLord View Post
    As I understand it, becoming a motorcycle dealer is much the same as becoming a drug dealer.

    Except with More motorcylces and motorcyclists and less cocaine and crack whores.
    i dunno dude... plenty of motorcycles and motorcyclists in my life...

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    Quote Originally Posted by DODO`` View Post
    This is gold. Thank you sir.

    So just like the 2nd hand car yards huh?
    I will want the workshop its just in my nature but its not a must right? (I only ask because I know some CAR dealers don't have any workshop)

    will have a small workshop at the back.. showroom in the middle and some tables and coffee machine at front.
    car dealership is not equal to motorbike dealership.

    I counsel you in the strongest possible terms to not proceed with this. Keep your passion as a hobby. Go earn a bloody good living doing what you trained all those years to do and spend all your money on motorbikes. It works for me. If you go into the trade then not only will you spend all your money you will lose your house, your wife, and you will get sick of the sight of motorbikes.

    Plus as someone else mentioned taking a large pile of money and turning it into a small one.

    Want some advice? take a year off and go and work at a motorbike shop as a sales drone or something. then after a month go and do architecture again.

    I am currently doing an interpretive dance about the wonders of modern architecture as applied to a post apocalyptic environment. What do you think?
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    Quote Originally Posted by DODO`` View Post
    But this don't happen in Car yards right? So its just a motorcycle thing is it?
    lots of people NEED cars: they are a commodity. No one NEEDS a motorbike. Plus the relative volumes make it a mostly viable business model
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    Quote Originally Posted by Katman View Post
    Either that or Anne just lowered her standards.
    I knew our wives had something in common...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike.Gayner View Post
    Wouldn't make any difference in most cases - anyone who has a financial stake isn't going to rely on a closely held limited company - they'll insist on personal guarantees over everything, on top of securities over personal assets.
    the tension between them and the banks will be palpable. mmm palps.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Last I heard Katman was better qualified than the average keyboard warrior to comment in a thread like this. He was reputed to be the owner operator of a small motorcycle related business? Mind you it is true that his online manner does sometimes need work.
    Haha, yeah dead right. Shows you how much of a noob the OP is huh?

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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    lots of people NEED cars: they are a commodity. No one NEEDS a motorbike.


    Quote Originally Posted by Jane Omorogbe from UK MSN on the KTM990SM
    It's barking mad and if it doesn't turn you into a complete loon within half an hour of cocking a leg over the lofty 875mm seat height, I'll eat my Arai.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gremlin View Post
    You missed Botany Honda.
    AJ / Motohaus
    Another in Kumeu (name escapes me)

    Then, probably more telling, is all the dealers that have gone under in the last 5 years (arbitrary number).
    - Haldanes
    - TMG
    - Triple X Moto
    - dang... I know there were more
    Yamaha on Barrys point road closed down, but now taken over by cycletreads? (yamaha in hamilton died as well)

    And we both forgot about AMPS. oops. Although does amps sell motorbikes or just the image of being a motorcyclist? hehe

    so 17 motorcycle retail stores in auck (including scooters). Wow i have no idea how they sell enough of them to stay afloat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Katman View Post
    Either that or Anne just lowered her standards.
    Impossible ... Motorcycle Dealers have no standards ..
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDemonLord View Post
    ... and less cocaine and crack whores.

    Read a few (more) of Katmans posts ... and you'll doubt your own words ...
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