Hello everyone, newbie here, I am looking to buy a new Ninja 1000 and have a question:
How does the Kawasaki Kash work? It looks like if you go ride their motorcycle at an event you get $250 in Kawasaki Kash. If I go to two events, can I get a second $250 in Kawasaki Kash?
And, can the Kawasaki Kash be used with the Costco discount program?
Don't mention the Kash voucher until it's time to make payment. Negotiate the best deal beforehand, get the sales contract written. If they make a fuss about the voucher (mine did) remind them that Kawasaki will redeem it.
Best advice here. Make your deal, then present Kawasaki Kash, They WILL make a fuss, as if it's eating into their profits but what's it's really doing is dangling another profit item in front of them.
If they refuse to give you that money off after the deal is made, get ready to walk out and threaten to report them to Kawasaki headquarters. Then they WILL give you that money off.
Every dealer is dirty. You just need to know how to deal with them.
Well, only one Kawa Kash cert per motorcycle purchase. I just got mine on Saturday. I just need to sell my Katana, and then I'm going to have Costco find me a 2019 Ninja 1000.
Well, only one Kawa Kash cert per motorcycle purchase. I just got mine on Saturday. I just need to sell my Katana, and then I'm going to have Costco find me a 2019 Ninja 1000.
I bought my 2015 Ninja 1000 with the Costco program. I planned to do the same thing when I bought my 2018 Ninja 400. I stopped in and saw the same salesman that I got my 1000 with and told him I was going to go with Costco again. He said, don't bother, and without any haggling he gave me a price quite a bit better than my Costco price. I signed right then and there.
But, all in all the Costco Price isn't bad, and the process in smooth. Good luck!
He will probably say he took that price off upfront and did not show it, they are good at giving you what you did not get. Unless he showed you a detailed bill before you said I do, it will be hard to prove it.
When I deal with dealers, the first thing I do is have them list every single fee separately.
Base Price, Tax, Title, License, Documentation fee, Freight, Assembly, Setup. All that adds up the Out the Door. OTD.
Those last 3 are considered "ADD." Additional Dealer Profit. Sure there are minor real costs associated with freight, assembly and setup, but they have been built into the MSRP since the 70's. They still are. Then at some point dealers revolted at being locked in to a selling price and started to think up ways to make more money. That's how freight, assembly and setup came to be around.
But there are dealers who haven't gone for ADD. I only buy from those dealers. I will never buy from a dealer that charges for freight, assembly and setup. I just bought a BMW adventure bike. Drove 200 miles to get to a dealer who didn't try to rape me with fees. Then as a bonus, when I accepted a price with no fees, he goes Oh and there's $850 customer cash right now, so I can give you that much more off the bike. None of the other dealers even mentioned that.
I've grown to hate dealers, as some are dirty, but some are awesome too.
Good luck with the new 2019....let us know how she runs.
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