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| Originally Posted by BigJohn999
What really ****ed me off was the fact that you could buy brand new 999 base model for about 8.5k from DK Motorcycles within a couple of years of their launch. OK, I don't expect any manufacturer to worry too much about us early purchasers a couple of years down the line, but do you remember when 916s were really expensive and kept their price? Ducati offloading stock cheap did me no favours, but all you lucky people who took up this offer were the real winners. I'm sure Ducati lost money on it and devalued their and to boot. |
While we don't really have parallel imports to contend with here in New Zealand, we do however, have a bunch of importers that have brought in large number of second hand bikes from Japan on the basis of the exchange rate.
Unfortunately the majority of Japanese imported bikes arrive due a major service and have no history, no RED masterkeys for the immobilisers etc. These bikes have generally ended up been sold for about 10-15% less than a comparable New Zealand secondhand bike and it didn't take long for second hand values of the New Zealand bikes to plummet with the oversupply. The problem has been further exacerated buy the initial reluctance of people to buy secondhand bikes from Japan in the $20-30k range forcing the importers to further reduce their prices to off load the stock.