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Prices paid for Sundance Optima
needaspa:
Julie,
'With my figures, at 6500 your dealer would be losing money, provided its cost is the same as mine'
What figures do you have? I am trying to find the true, preinflated cost.
Thanks
Electro:
Cajun_Mike,
;)
Reading perhaps a thousand or more threads in the past month, I studied and compiled the prices posted for several specific brands on this site, over a 2 year period. A typical price for the Sundance Optima, with the usual goodies (cover, cover lift, dual step, starter chemicals, ozonator, and setup and delivery, excluding any crane work) was about $8,000 or a little less at $7,700. The highest price was $8,400 and the lowest was $7,300.
The actual price at your dealer and location is highly dependent on the local market situation and how much overhead your dealer has, as well as the costs he has to pay for shipping from the manufacturer. Some folks do not realize that the typical price usually includes a really cheap set of steps, an aftermarket ozonator, and minimal chemicals. You can negotiate or pay for an upgrade for better steps, the real manufacturer's ozonator (which typically put out at least twice as much ozone per specs), and enough chemicals to last a couple months or so. By and large, you'll have to pay $300 to $500 more than the base price to get these upgrades.
This is as definitive as it gets. Good Luck!
Electro
Julie:
Electro:
Thanks for the price research! So I should be happy to have paid approx 7300$US (using a the 1.3 factor conversion effective at the time I purchased).
Needaspa:
I you would have read my post carefully, you would have seen that my dealer told me about a 20% margin. Then you can figure out the rest yourself, if you can do basic maths! Selling price of 7300$ and margin of 20% gives its cost: 6250$, and margin 1250$. So at 6500$ the dealer is not really making any money, probably not even covering its costs. I don't know why I waste my time telling you about this, I don't feel you really want to know. It seems more that you want to tell everyone that the dealers rob and overcharge them, and how little you are going to pay for your spa compared to us!
poolboy34:
kudos Julie, it seems everyones "friend" needaspa needs a dose of reality. He's being unreasonable, and thus will probably never own a sundance optima. actually I have a better idea................needaspa why don't you go to the bank and take out a small business loan and then call sundance and tell them you would like to become a spa dealer for them and start your own spa business!!!!! maybe then you will finally realize the cold hard truth of it all...............dealers are not out to rob customers of all of their hard earned money, dealers sell their products at a fair price that benefits both dealer and customer. Heck, you should be able to make a fortune, what selling your optimas for 6500$, heck I bet you can do better then that............how about selling them for 5000$ a great savings after the "manufacturers" 5500$ reabte ;D
Mendocino101:
lol....Poolboy....
that is right you know that old saying...sell cheap and make it up in volume...or its close twin.......go broke twice as fast....Needaspa .....And also your good buddy whypaymore...have either of you heard of a company..."Buy.com" a few years ago they were the 4th largest retailer on the internet...boy you two should have worked for them.... your business minds are so much a like.... anyway if you don't know their story you 2 will really appreciate it...their plan was to sell everything at cost or below and make it up on advertising and service contacts.... well...after accumulating several hundred million dollars in lost revenue...they went bankrupt.....but perhaps you two geniuses can tweak it a little and see if you can go broke together quicker than they did.....good luck.... ;)
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