I'm sure as unpleasant as it is for most there are certainly people paying well over sticker. Just as many are still online 3 years old with 30k plus miles for original sticker or more by private sellers.
Some may think I am full of it....it really doesn't matter. I am sure all of my sales will be mall crawlers at best. The first one sold was to a gentleman who pulled up in a GT3, had a Rolex that probably cost more than my car.
My only hope was to be able to help based on the dealer end. I paid over sticker back in 2007 for the first Jeep Rubicon, and personally bought my used raptor from a customer who needed to get out of his for a work truck (I paid $1000 less than he paid 2 years before and 18k miles....the truck was just something I needed).
My overall goal is to tell it from the dealer side. Profit is only a bad word to the consumer. Limited units generally demand higher prices. If Ford mass produced them year 2 I am sure the butt hurt will be bad. All I do is be as upfront with people as I can. If I get the chance to buy our 6th allocation truck and my owners want to sell for more than sticker I will wait, but I don't care much if it's a few bucks over what I find reasonable. I drove one in Detroit and I am pretty sure I soiled the seat. I have the Roush kit on my present truck so I am sure this truck won't have the performance but it looks so much cooler....or maybe I am telling myself that.
In my opinion an honest deal is letting customers know there is a chance at seriously ramped up production for the 2nd year (which of course will kill their used value) and let them decide how to spend their money. That being said if it was your call and someone wanted to buy it at MSRP and someone else would pay the premium I am sure many wouldn't take the shorter deal.
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If I could make a link for the wholesaler in an open post on LinkedIn offering $7000 over msrp I would. Anyone can look here up, Rhonda Hardin at professional locators LLC. Add her to LinkedIn and it's right there on her page. No real secret, but for the doubters, it is in black and white.
I can assure you that 99.986757688877% of the people here will NOT be paying you $2k, $5K, $10K or higher over MSRP for a Raptor. Even with the trucks being in sort of short demand I very highly doubt there are that many idiots, in this country at least that are willing to pay $15k over sticker when you could literally call the next dealer on the list and probably get the truck for MSRP like everyone else here has done. I called two dealers just last week close to my home town to just see out of curiosity what I could get off a truck I ordered and they both agreed to come off MSRP a few thousand if I was serious. If you're selling that many trucks at $10K + over sticker send some of those people my direction, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell them.
ALSO, I'm pretty sure you need to be a supporting vendor on this forum before you start trying to sell in these threads.