Odd how you always go to the money. You just can't help but tell everyone how you have money.
My local dealer sells maybe 12 sleds on a good year. They got 3 this year to check. They never had 1 on the showroom floor this year.
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Odd how you always go to the money. You just can't help but tell everyone how you have money.
My local dealer sells maybe 12 sleds on a good year. They got 3 this year to check. They never had 1 on the showroom floor this year.
And everyone else who snowchecked. If you want one of these sleds they are available. No reason to give a sob story that you can't get one, yet at least. I don't think your dealer who sells 3 sleds is going to be upset if you go to a dealer who has 50 of them.
Agreed. It’s just business if they can’t get them find someone who can. I’d be willing to bet Polaris divvied out allocations by each dealers running sales % of the incoming available units. If their sales equated to less than 1sled of incoming units they are not getting an allocation for that unit. Seems the way that is fair to other dealers who actually move units every year.
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This could be the new normal. Make more money on less sleds build what is sold. Example we can build 5000 units with our labor force and materials. Rinse and repeat. Labor is hard to find quality that is. Less headaches for management and keep increasing price until consumers back away.
Or it just goes back to the mid 90’s if you expected to ride you had to snow check or track down a decent used sled if you could find one. If you had a year old sled it was minimal to trade and almost like being paid to buy a new sled. I remember trading a ZR580 for another ZR580 was $250 out of pocket but I got $400 in Cat Cash Back. Next year I got a ZRT600 for I think $500 out of pocket and $400 cat cash. It was a no brainer that once you bought a new sled to keep trading. Then 98 it all changed. Dealers blamed low snow years as manufacturers built way more sleds and cranes them into dealerships to sit and then they we’re worth half at trade.
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The manufacturer have us by the short and curly. I feel they would just as soon not mess around with used sleds. I bought several carry overs in spring cheap. Time to pay up now.
That had to be at Sheehan's?
Those were the good ol' days.
As of yesterday, Allsport in Spokane WA has the following:
(1) Khaos 850 non Slash
(2) Pro Slash 155 9R
(2) Pro Slash 165 9R
(1) Khaos Slash163 Boost
(4) Khaos Slash 165 Boost
(2) Pro Slash 163 Boost
(2) Pro Slash 165 Boost
If interested, Call and speak to Nick Cooper
(1) Khaos 850 non Slash
(2) Pro Slash 155 9R
(2) Pro Slash 165 9R
(1) Khaos Slash163 Boost
(4) Khaos Slash 165 Boost
(2) Pro Slash 163 Boost
(2) Pro Slash 165 Boost
If interested, Call and speak to Nick Cooper
At this point I don't think I have anything NEW to offer that hasn't already been posted all over the net??
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Remmy
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Up here in AK there wasn't a single 9R 165 allocated to the State. Unfortunately I online ordered that sled prior to the dealer opening on Tue which ended up being the same as doing nothing. Interesting they're still available days later in the lower 48 when people were up here fighting over the 155s.
I picked up the last Khaos Boost available in the area and had to settle for a 155"....oh well it should be rowdy AF...hopefully not to rowdy ha.
I picked up the last Khaos Boost available in the area and had to settle for a 155"....oh well it should be rowdy AF...hopefully not to rowdy ha.
The difference is everything posted all over the net gets lost in the clutter.
If it gets posted on snowest it becomes immortal. ?
Their fine
It was. The other week I was looking to see if the were still in operation and looks like it’s done and gone under different ownership. Saw also their branch store at Lake poinsette (Toy Shop managed by Jody I believe) was closed also. Those guys were good people, sponsored racers, supported innovators. I bought through them my first encapsulated secondary (Hi-Tech Performance) from a clutch guru not far into Minnesota that was an enlightening back in 2000. I found Sheehan after the Farm Implement store in Luverne MN stopped selling cat. Weird pretty much all the cat dealers in eastern SD seemed to have stopped selling Cat or went out of business at some point the last 25 years. Not sure if Interlakes in Madison still Carries them.
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Spaarky
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Don’t believe so.. think it’s Doo and Yamaha.
No. I do live in bumfuck nowhere, so driving 12+ hours round trip to a dealer with inventory seems like a waste of time.
I'm going to keep bombing the old 800 until things chill out. Doesn't hurt my pocket at all.
I don’t wanna drive 10+ hours to buy something from a dealer I don’t know. I also wanna trade. Checked another fairly local dealer today. Got told to call Montana or Idaho dealers. Not even being able to get an 850 in a 163” is bullcrap.
My local dealer got a decent number of Boosts and 9Rs but only got 1 of what I was looking to buy new of this year and am stoked they let me have it. Evo RMK 144. Totally worth it to see my daughters face light up like that. She was waiting all last week to see if she would have any choices to make in the build. No choice on the Evo but she is happy anyway. She is now counting the days till October 1st (Polaris emailed delivery date already). I already warned her that date is not a definite and we don't get enough snow to ride till December anyway. She is now saving her money for accessories. She has been riding the dealers daughters EVOs on group rides lately and can't wait to move up from the Yamaha 200. New technology is great but helping out new riders get out there is the best thing to do for this sport.
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