Originally Posted by Carlos_Danger
You are fundamentally wrong in 90% of the key aspects in your argument, "neither the dealer nor BMW is going to sell you a car for $60,000 when they know they can sell it to someone else for $65,000" You're so wrong as not only the price to build and sell the car is accounted here, there are others factors in a car's price that can lower what you'll pay for, seems strange to me that youre one of the few people that don't know that once you do ED your car is now USED so it'll pay less import taxes hence the car will be cheaper to you, and BMW gets the same price that they charge you, get it, so you are very wrong because BMW can sell a car at 60k and make profit and somebody else paying import taxes on a brand new car will pay 65k but at the end of the day BMW still gets 60k, This is economics 101, you don't have basic knowledge in import/customs taxes, ill keep going,
Second "if you buy a car from a dealer and go pick it up in Europe for an ED price of , say, $60,000, you can be reasonably certain you can buy that same car, in the states, for the same amount." this is wrong too on the basis of what i just explained before, but ill keep the 60k to 65k price that you used as an example, if BMW is ALREADY making a profit selling a car at 60k to the DEALERS, dealers then add to the price to get their profits lets say 65k, so obviously BMW can directly sell you a car for what they sell it to dealer and make profit and you'll be getting a lower price, ITS OBVIOUS that buying directly from the factory instead from a dealer it'll be cheaper, since dealers are intermediaries that need to make profit on the car, then you ask why doesn't everybody does ED well some people don't have the time, some don't care, and when you add the trip costs there really isn't much difference, MB also offers ED and few people choose to go that way, must people have works families etc
Third "And when BMW allows this pricing to happen, they are revealing to you that the car is not selling fast enough for the assembly line" This is plainly a very dumb assumption, when the F10 M5 was released and demand was higher than ever ED was available, ED has nothing to do with car selling well or not, to summarize this was a very opinionated wrong and full of assumptions post, hope you can read more about this topic
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