10K for the right to Buy?

[MotownMadman]

Rick, Personally I think that when someone pays a great deal over the invoice amount all it does is add to the inflation hype, which causes attention to be paid to the vehicle, which in turn causes sales. Great marketing stategy. I am sure the marketing people take this into account, that would explain why these speciality vehicles always seem to have a good deal of advertising prior to release, then a few are released to each dealer, enough to cause attention, but somehow production always seems to be lagging behind enough to cause a stir and a rush to own one. A lot of the reason for the inflated prices on the speciality vehicles is the difficulty in obtaining one, people always want what they cant have, and everybody always wants to be the first to own something that is unique and hard to get. Economics 101. Supply low, demand high, inflated cost. Supply high, demand low, drop in cost. Harley inadvertantly used that stategy when overnight Hollywood decided Harleys were it and everybody wanted one, prices soared while they were hard to get because Harley could not produce enough to keep up with the demand. Now that they have caught up and the trend has subsided some, the prices are dropping fast and will continue to do so for some time yet. It will be interesting to see this GM sport truck market in a year or two.
Thanks,
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