Anyone in the market for a new Raptor is 100%, absolutely affected by the gotta have it RIGHT ******* NOW shopper willing to just throw away money for the privilege of having the Raptor.
Have you seen dealer lots?
I’m trying real hard to give a damn.
Nope. Can’t do it.
I might could consider giving a damn if I didn’t have to run the gauntlet of swindling attempts in order to buy whatever vehicle I wanted over the years.
The best part of having a free market is having the option to say no thank you and not pay more than you believe the item is worth. The reason dealers can get away with high markups is because the consumer is still willing to pay the price
If you don’t need the commodity, you have options. That’s a good situation to be in. What about Super Duty’s? Those guys in Canada with the big rigs mucking things up right now, they’re a huge part of the supply chain. But a lot of the stuff they haul or within 1-2 layers are the guys and gals who have enough money for 1 vehicle to do it all; the big @ss Super Duty that hauls their hay, crops, firewood, family to work/school/church/synagogue/mosque/circle, range, pickup feed for livestock. They’re the ones who do the producing, growing of things and all.
These guys aren’t necessarily recreational purchasers and I know that’s a different use case than the Raptor, but the ADM is on heavy duty trucks also.
If the guy who wants the SD to haul his 911 track car pays 40k over to get the truck, you can rest assured some podunk farmer isn’t getting it. Yeah, they’ll land something eventually but the collateral effect is real.
If I’m hit by a hurricane and without power for weeks, I’d much rather sit on my butt and wait for FEMA to show up months later to rescue me rather than pay $10k to a guy from somewhere else who had the initiative to fill his pickup with generators and drive all night to gouge me. NOT Those laws make it illegal to help others. Is that really what we want?
LOL. Good point.
Government, large corporations and the super wealthy would take advantage of us all. Having government, which I think gets in the way sometimes but also does good things is a requirement in our world but, who's worse the big corporations or big government, pick your poison. Is there a happy medium?
So, they’re not taking advantage of us now?
The happy medium isn’t in the middle, it’s heavily skewed against government intervention, but that’s not what the original topic was about, it was more centered around outrageous to us overcharges for the Raptor. There’s plenty of that out there for sure.
So you hate the ADM, totally get it... have you ever sold an item for more than you paid? If so then no better than the dealer you are tattle telling on. ADM's suck but its a part of every industry for in demand products.
That’s a fair point.
A lot of people on FRF are PI$$ED at Ford, their stealerships, and the industry but others have hinted at it or said it outright.
The real enemy is right here on FRF; it’s US.
We’re the ones paying the money for the truck, and a subset of us are overpaying for it, willingly. This is why there are ADM or over MSRP pricing.
