Is it worth it

[Wenier]

If ya do go with private jus shop around and ull find a good deal 250s are usually easy to pick up in private sales and generally arent stolen as long as u look in the right places

[RiderInBlack]

Anyway just out of curiosity has anyone ever haggled with the dealers about price and if so how was everyone sucsesful?

Fu*k, your mad if you don't haggle with dealers. Cycle Spot dropped $500 on a CBR1000FL without me having to breath hard. Didn't buy from them in the end as the same bike was at Red Baron for even less, and ended up finding what I wanted Privately in the T&E for over $2000 less than any of the Dealers. OK, it had done 50,000Km (twice that of the same bike in Cycle Spot), which is nothing to these bikes, and had to repair the collector box (would have only cost $300 if I got Custom Chambers to do it, but fixed it myself). Otherwise in good condition, and was NZ new (even had the old fawn coloured ownership papers).
Had run a VIN check on the internet (took less than 5mins, WOF, all the owners, etc) before buying it, and run it through a full service at reconised honda bike as soon as I picked it up.

[Coldkiwi]

I haggled with Red Baron over my GPX250. They had it posted for $3600. I Argued my way down to $3100 and then said 'well, $2500 is all the cash I have so I'll have to put the remaining $600 on finance' (the truth) they said 'not worth it... how about $2900? 'nope, only got $2500....' 'alright.... $2600?' SWEEET!!


without a doubt... if they can move on a price an still be profitable, they will

question: have haldanes improved recently? They seem kinda uninterested in people spending money in their store last few times I was in!
Agree about Mt Eden. Good keen bikers to the last who are just as happy to talk about bikes as they are to sell bikes. Top blokes

[wkid_one]

AT the end of the day - the 250 market is fucked anyway. Prices are always high as there is a need to buy them. As said - at least buying off a dealer, you get a limited amount of recourse and some safety in that the bike will be yours without any issues around hot bikes, or outstanding finance.

But - I would go private - much cheaper. I am happy to check the rego for stolen reports and outstanding finance if you want me to.....just pm me the rego.

Dan

[FROSTY:Me]

I haggled with Red Baron over my GPX250. They had it posted for $3600. I Argued my way down to $3100 and then said 'well, $2500 is all the cash I have so I'll have to put the remaining $600 on finance' (the truth) they said 'not worth it... how about $2900? 'nope, only got $2500....' 'alright.... $2600?' SWEEET!!


without a doubt... if they can move on a price an still be profitable, they will

question: have haldanes improved recently? They seem kinda uninterested in people spending money in their store last few times I was in!
Agree about Mt Eden. Good keen bikers to the last who are just as happy to talk about bikes as they are to sell bikes. Top blokes

I guess Im a little out of touch but Ive had fantastic service from haldanes
But then dave cole in the workshop is a mate of mine and Bob used to sponser me many years ago so I guess I might be biased
I can remember one cold wet friday night before a race meeting Bob waiting till I got there to fit some new tyres to my bike.

[Coldkiwi]

ah well.. maybe it was just my scraggly hair ... or the fact that they remembered it was me who binned (ok, the lady turned into me) their ZZR 250 on a test ride a few years ago!!

good to know they're getting it right with others at least.

[MikeL]

question: have haldanes improved recently? They seem kinda uninterested in people spending money in their store last few times I was in!
Agree about Mt Eden. Good keen bikers to the last who are just as happy to talk about bikes as they are to sell bikes. Top blokes

I had good service from Haldanes when I bought the XJR. Took 3 bikes out for test rides, came back for another ride on two of them and had a hard job making up my mind, but they were very patient and laid back about it. Their style is a bit less pushy than some others that I have dealt with.
So far I have bought from Red Baron, Colemans (twice) and Haldanes and I have no complaints except that Red Baron probably took advantage of me a bit due to my ignorance about bike values but that was as much my fault as theirs. On the whole I think I would be happiest buying from Mt Eden - it's just that they have never had the right bike for me at the time. And after my experience with Red Baron I have always haggled and got between $500 and $1000 off the marked price.