Trist P Review of New York Motorcycle
After walking around for a good 15 minutes with no...
After walking around for a good 15 minutes with no one batting an eye, I approached a young salesman who looked to be playing with his pen. The salesman wasn't aware of the bike I asked him about... he came outside looked and then got some sort of paper work for it. Refused to start it up (I just wanted to hear how it sounds and just look it over). Tried to negotiate and all he did was take an offer, write it down and show it to his manager and return after a minute or so to tell me it was rejected. Finally the manager, Vincent came out and I dealt with him directly. After getting a $50 haircut on the price, I decided I would indeed pay way over NADA book value and eat the 25 or so percent interest on a loan to cover part of it, I was told I would need to pay $395 to have the bike looked over before they hand me the keys. I'm not an expert on this but don't you guys look over the bike and clean it up, etc. before throwing a used bike onto the show room floor? Now I would like to purchase it and I have to pay $395 fee? And I was told if I buy it, the bike (2009 Ninja 500R with 1,400 miles) will be ready for me to ride home in 10 minutes. So $395 for a ten minute look over by a mechanic to supposedly "check for engine knocks, look at the tires, make sure the fork isn't leaking, among other things." I tried to negotiate that out which they agreed to do, but then they would HAVE to charge me $395 more on the bike itself. I had to walk out on that. I ended up finding a 2002 Ninja 500R (Same exact bike as the 2009 model) with 2,800 miles and I got it for $2,100 from a private party and I paid $25 to a mechanic to look it over and everything checked out fine. I highly recommend going to New York Honda 36-02 38th St, Long Island City, NY; the sales and parts/service staff are much more customer oriented.
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