Someone gets my Tenere slot - Helena, MT

[Koinz]

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[Chadx]

Hi guys, I wasn't going to post up my original deal thinking Wayne might be able to get more for it and sell it right away. Better for him. Now that my deposit is on the line and it sounds like he had quoted some of you prices of $13,500, I'll spill. The original deal WAS for $13,500 HOWEVER that included the 4 year YES warranty (for a total of 5 years).

I'm going to give him a call this morning to discuss. When he called me, he said he wanted me to talk to folks about the factory warranty and how it would get transferred from the original PDP name (mine) to the buyer after 30 days (though all other paperwork like title/registration, etc. goes directly into the buyers name). All this because he is VERY paranoid about someone calling Yamaha and telling them they are buying a PDP bike, ordered in someone else's name, from his dealership. I don't know that Yamaha would really care as it's well known many dealers intentionally bent the rules and ordered units for the floor and to Yamaha, it's just another sold unit, but Wayne is worried about getting in trouble. So he is kind of putting me in a place where he wants me to bring a well informed buyer to whom he doesn't have to try to explain all that but if I don't know what he'll sell it for, it makes it tough. I'll get the full info from him this morning and post up. I would think that $13,500 includes the YES warranty so really a decent deal. I'll determine if that price included the warranty and if he'll sell it without the warranty and if so, at what price point. I'll post more after I speak with him.

 

[Chadx]

Bike is in the process of being sold (it's paid for and awaiting pickup). Thanks for the support, everyone. Micatech Panniers and SW-Motech racks are still available. Details here: http://www.yamahasupertenere.com/index.php?topic=1498.0

 

[Venture]

Hi guys, I wasn't going to post up my original deal thinking Wayne might be able to get more for it and sell it right away. Better for him. Now that my deposit is on the line and it sounds like he had quoted some of you prices of $13,500, I'll spill. The original deal WAS for $13,500 HOWEVER that included the 4 year YES warranty (for a total of 5 years).

I'm going to give him a call this morning to discuss. When he called me, he said he wanted me to talk to folks about the factory warranty and how it would get transferred from the original PDP name (mine) to the buyer after 30 days (though all other paperwork like title/registration, etc. goes directly into the buyers name). All this because he is VERY paranoid about someone calling Yamaha and telling them they are buying a PDP bike, ordered in someone else's name, from his dealership. I don't know that Yamaha would really care as it's well known many dealers intentionally bent the rules and ordered units for the floor and to Yamaha, it's just another sold unit, but Wayne is worried about getting in trouble. So he is kind of putting me in a place where he wants me to bring a well informed buyer to whom he doesn't have to try to explain all that but if I don't know what he'll sell it for, it makes it tough. I'll get the full info from him this morning and post up. I would think that $13,500 includes the YES warranty so really a decent deal. I'll determine if that price included the warranty and if he'll sell it without the warranty and if so, at what price point. I'll post more after I speak with him.

I don't know Wayne, nor am I a Yamaha dealer, nor am I all that intimately familiar with the PDP program, BUT, I imagine there must be some process in place to gracefully deal with the likely event that somebody backs out of the order prior to or at the time of delivery.

I mean, what exactly is a dealer supposed to do with a bike that arrives and the expected owner says, "keep the deposit, I don't want it anymore." ??? Send it back? Hold the owner at gunpoint until they sign the papers? Crush it? :

 

[Chadx]

I had the same questions so I called Yamaha. Didn't give them dealer name or anything, but turns out, the "Yamaha Law" on PDP says that the $500 deposit is not refundable or transferrable. So according to their rules, I would be out the $500 if someone else bought it because the dealer would be out that $500. We worked around the system (for this reason and to make the titling process easier) by transferring it into my name and then to the real new owners name. So technically, I am currently a Super Tenere owner after all! Until tomorrow. Ha.

 

[Venture]

I had the same questions so I called Yamaha. Didn't give them dealer name or anything, but turns out, the "Yamaha Law" on PDP says that the $500 deposit is not refundable or transferrable. So according to their rules, I would be out the $500 if someone else bought it because the dealer would be out that $500. We worked around the system (for this reason and to make the titling process easier) by transferring it into my name and then to the real new owners name. So technically, I am currently a Super Tenere owner after all! Until tomorrow. Ha.

I have to disagree with Yamaha about the non-transferable part, but I guess that's reality. I'm glad everything worked out for you in the end.

 

[markjenn]

So technically, I am currently a Super Tenere owner after all! Until tomorrow. Ha.

I'd guess you're the brief "owner" with respect to Yamaha, not with the state.

- Mark