General question about classifieds
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Re: General question about classifieds
I skip them. I hate it when dealers do it because I have seen them go up in price on a boat
I figure they want to pre qualify the person.Like what do you have or have owned or what you do for a living
Rob
I figure they want to pre qualify the person.Like what do you have or have owned or what you do for a living
Rob
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Re: General question about classifieds
Not showing a price can only mean that the price hurts the sale of the product, not helps it. That translates into an overpriced product.
Last edited by JohnS; 03-24-2006 at 12:35 PM.
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Re: General question about classifieds
McGary, that is exactly what I was saying. Each year we sigh a dealer agreement in order to be able to sell these mfr's boats. They (the mfr) make the rules that we (the dealer) have to play by. TeamBaja works at the plant, maybe he can verify what I am saying. The main reason I responded to this thread was I did not want people looking at our ads and assuming that because the boat is not priced we are screwing with you. I just kind of wanted to explain our position. Thanks, Brody
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Re: General question about classifieds
Originally Posted by abwatersports
McGary, that is exactly what I was saying. Each year we sigh a dealer agreement in order to be able to sell these mfr's boats. They (the mfr) make the rules that we (the dealer) have to play by. TeamBaja works at the plant, maybe he can verify what I am saying. The main reason I responded to this thread was I did not want people looking at our ads and assuming that because the boat is not priced we are screwing with you. I just kind of wanted to explain our position. Thanks, Brody
I still want to point out that it will hurt the marketing potential.
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Re: General question about classifieds
Originally Posted by abwatersports
McGary, that is exactly what I was saying. Each year we sigh a dealer agreement in order to be able to sell these mfr's boats. They (the mfr) make the rules that we (the dealer) have to play by. TeamBaja works at the plant, maybe he can verify what I am saying. The main reason I responded to this thread was I did not want people looking at our ads and assuming that because the boat is not priced we are screwing with you. I just kind of wanted to explain our position. Thanks, Brody
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Re: General question about classifieds
Originally Posted by beachbob
I would at least list the msrp (saying it is msrp in the ad) that gives us a idea of what it can be bought for. Would be better then no price at all.
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I try to put pricing on ALL my ads.
However,you may want to keep this in mind. As a distributor, I'm sometimes restricted by a MAP [minimum advertised price] agreement. That means that some manufacturers restrict what you can show for pricing. In many cases, that's 10% off retail. In every case where I'm restricted, I can sell to you guys at substantially lower prices.
Like the majority of you, I prefer to see the price. And i I'd prefer to advertise a kick ass price in every ad.Unfortunately, I can't.
By not calling you may actually be passing up the best pricing available.
No salesman talk, no BS.
Just a little food for thought.
However,you may want to keep this in mind. As a distributor, I'm sometimes restricted by a MAP [minimum advertised price] agreement. That means that some manufacturers restrict what you can show for pricing. In many cases, that's 10% off retail. In every case where I'm restricted, I can sell to you guys at substantially lower prices.
Like the majority of you, I prefer to see the price. And i I'd prefer to advertise a kick ass price in every ad.Unfortunately, I can't.
By not calling you may actually be passing up the best pricing available.
No salesman talk, no BS.
Just a little food for thought.
Last edited by TRICK; 03-24-2006 at 05:30 PM.
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Re: General question about classifieds
Even worse than no price, check out the Cig in the classifieds (OSO member initials JOE) requiring financial statement (verbal ok!) from financial institution because TOO MANY PEOPLE wanted to "just look" at his TG. LOSER
#39
Re: General question about classifieds
Originally Posted by TRICK
I try to put pricing on ALL my ads.
However,you may want to keep this in mind. As a distributor, I'm sometimes restricted by a MAP [minimum advertised price] agreement. That means that some manufacturers restrict what you can show for pricing. In many cases, that's 10% off retail. In every case where I'm restricted, I can sell to you guys at substantially lower prices.
Like the majority of you, I prefer to see the price. And i I'd prefer to advertise a kick ass price in every ad.Unfortunately, I can't.
By not calling you may actually be passing up the best pricing available.
No salesman talk, no BS.
Just a little food for thought.
However,you may want to keep this in mind. As a distributor, I'm sometimes restricted by a MAP [minimum advertised price] agreement. That means that some manufacturers restrict what you can show for pricing. In many cases, that's 10% off retail. In every case where I'm restricted, I can sell to you guys at substantially lower prices.
Like the majority of you, I prefer to see the price. And i I'd prefer to advertise a kick ass price in every ad.Unfortunately, I can't.
By not calling you may actually be passing up the best pricing available.
No salesman talk, no BS.
Just a little food for thought.
I understand your point Fred .But I think there talking about dealers with boats
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Re: General question about classifieds
When listing new boats I would advertise the MSRP as MSRP. It at least gives a frame of reference to make a decision to call or not. Your competitor in town never advertises prices except for window stickers on new boats in the showroom. I think he misses a lot of traffic on brokerage/used due to the no price issue. I personally have been interested in some of his brokerage boats, but with no frame of reference I am not going to call for a price.