Quote Originally Posted by Prospersigman View Post
A lot of people are quick to jump in and stick up for the Supra dealers and protect their future discounts by saying that no discount and over $4k dealer prep/shipping is acceptable in this current market. I'll bet they would be pitching a bitch if they were getting hit with those fees and no discount.

In my opinion it is complete BS and its not just supply and demand it is greedy boat dealers trying to make record profits.
I completely agree with both of your posts and sad thing is it's not skiers fault TO A DEGREE.

part of the big issue with this is dealer territories and I completely get why they are in place but it's not end-user friendly.
our 2020 tige came from dealer in MN. we scored a good deal at 28% off msrp and no real dealer markups/addons. we did have to pay $1550 to ship it to us but still over 10k less than the closest dealer. the MN dealer is a powersports selling cycles and sleds so they have income stream to keep the lights on in the winter. closest dealer- which ironically is the same dealer the OP has deposit at- only does boats so no revenue in the off months. my assumption is the dealer territories help keep them in place.
we would have had no issues paying a little more for a boat from the closer dealer(a couple grand) but over 10k on an 80k boat?? not gonna happen. and I know the dealer in MN made a few $$ on it as well.

there are dealers out there selling boats for discounts off msrp and dealers gouging customers. sad thing is the marketplace is not open for people to shop service, price and overall feel.