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Nedwreck
| | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 08:19 pm: | 
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I've never seen that much glue on a handgrip before.
Either someone at Buell is real happy in their job or the fumes from the glue is getting to them.
I thought I'd never get all that stuff off.
Bob |
Court
| | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2005 - 04:31 am: |
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>>>I'd rather go down to the local bicycle shop and buy used Schwinn grips than pay $80+.
There ya have it...simple economics. You carry your loudest voice in your hip pocket.
I'm trying to stick by that thinking and I may need your help. My wife's cousin bought a 911 Turbo Cabriolet. Turns out that "Cabriolet" means convertible in German I think. We're on our 3rd Saab 9-3 Convertible but she thinks Bernadette's car is "really cute".
Tell me what to tell her to convince her that her $50K Saab will do ANYTHING the $128,200 "Cabriolet" will do.
I'm listening....please respond soon.
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Road_thing
| | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2005 - 08:28 am: |
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Court, buddy, I think yer screwed! Maybe she'll let you drive it once in a while. Just don't try your Braille parking technique!
rt |
Court
| | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2005 - 12:31 pm: |
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>>>>Court, buddy, I think yer screwed!
Oh?...of that make no mistake. I just want, in the spirit of this thread, for someone to convince me that all buying decisions are motiviated by price alone.
This, my freind, is information that could be most valuable to us.
My point is that Buell (in this case Buell Distribution Corp.) is free to set prices. Demand, Keynes told us, would be dictated by the marginal propensity to consume (i.e so many sell at $x, so many sell at $X+5...so many sell at $X+10...ans so forth)
You do's that calc....multiply, at each step expected proft and choose where ya wants to hang out.....really think Ducati needs $25K? Short answer no, they are balancing capacity to prodcue with demand. Sell the 999 for $12K and you'd have to seriously tick some folks, willing to ante up, off.
For a better, than the ol' Econ text, treatment study the science of controlling bridge and tunnel traffic by assigning tolls that optimize traffic flow. What?...you thought they set the tolls based on how much money they wanted to make? That is a nearly unrelated function in the process.
But...as a construction worker, the best I can do at all this stuff is guess. I'll defer to the group.
Court |
Rockbiter1
| | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2005 - 12:44 pm: |
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Court...tell her you saw a real nice Ford Focus at the dealership........with 15 inch spinners! |
Court
| | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2005 - 12:59 pm: |
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I was threatened with death last year when I suggested some sort of "economy minded mini-car" to my youngest.
I've learned to shut up and do as I am told.
Court |
Just_ziptab
| | Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2005 - 01:00 am: |
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Dave: How do you know that it's the correct price? Is it what the parts computer tells you,or was it verified by somebody at Buell Corporate? |
Midknyte
| | Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2005 - 02:48 am: |
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Court, has she seen a convertible miata? |
Pilot
| | Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2005 - 04:21 am: |
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Oh?...of that make no mistake. I just want, in the spirit of this thread, for someone to convince me that all buying decisions are motiviated by price alone.
>>>>Court, buddy, I think yer screwed!
Oh and on another matter get me your snail mail address and a dvd for your new player will be sent |
Cataract2
| | Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2005 - 07:19 am: |
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Court, just get your youngest a bike. |
Court
| | Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2005 - 08:19 am: |
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>>>>Court, just get your youngest a bike.
You, I see, have not met Bryce Hunter.
There was a factory M2 sitting here one day and I took a group of New Jersey Riders down the shore to lunch. He rode with me on that occasion. I made the mistake of leaving the keys in it and he was gone for an hour.
The next time, I made him take the KLR. That solved the "teach dad a lesson" problem.
My youngest, you see, is permently scared from a riding lesson administered by two folks in Portland, OR one day.
'Sides....his busy maintaining my beach home in La Jolla.
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Mr_grumpy
| | Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2005 - 09:56 am: |
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Cabriolet, is French & comes from a type of ornate horse drawn carriage, The Germans use the word because no-one can pronounce the German equivalent,
Most European manufacturers use cabriolet as convertible is too Anglo-Saxon for them, they don't like the Yanks & they don't trust the English! 
Kidding aside, it's a marketing thing, they'll use whatever term they think will sell the most units.
Money talks, Bulls**t walks. |
Bandm
| | Posted on Monday, February 07, 2005 - 12:28 pm: |
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price each, 6 required
Government Washers
Sorry Al, I just had to.
Mark |
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