Bulk Discounts!

Mr_Happy · L Plate Warrior Joined: 14 Mar 2012 Karma :

Hello all - A foreign business contact has asked me to buy 5 ex-demo bikes for export from a BMW dealer, a mix of models. I've never done anything like this before (he's not actually a motorbiking contact, and I'm not in the trade!), any ideas on what kind of discount I should look to get vs. list? Thanks for any advice!

Rogerborg · nimbA Joined: 26 Oct 2010 Karma :

Two posts, one about shipping bikes to your "cousin" in Australia, one about buying bikes for Nardo in Elbonia. For someone who's not in the bike export trade, you certainly do a good job of hiding it.

If you want meaningful advice, you'll want to give some more information. Which models (and why BMWs?), do they have to be ex-demo or just pre-registered, where does Nardo live, and why does he reckon that the UK is his cheapest source of bikes?

IIRC, doing £30K of business in a year means that HRMC will consider you to be "in the trade" regardless of your feelings on the matter.
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Is your foreign business contact calling from The Republic of Agdgdgwngo?

Mr_Happy · L Plate Warrior Joined: 14 Mar 2012 Karma :

Cheers Angry, very generous offer!

Well, I'm not in the trade, but I do have a VAT registered company to do the deal through - and if I was, would I be on forums asking these fairly basic questions?! TBH, I don't really use forums, (prefer to spend my time on the road Wink

), so apologies if I've broken some kind of ettiquette!

Models are still tbc, but I think most likely to be a two S1000RR Sports, a G650, and two K1300s. (Extremely back of the envelope) that would be in the order of about £52k list for ex-demo?

breadlord · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 02 May 2012 Karma :

If you don't know the book value for them, should you really be buying fifty-plus grandsworth of bikes for resale?

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Nigerian pics please .... Shocked

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Mr_Happy · L Plate Warrior Joined: 14 Mar 2012 Karma :

Ah, there it is. Cheers guys, v helpful. I'd checked Parkers (cars only), but didn't know about Glass. Spoke to them and at £189 p.a., def worth the investment if this turns into a real business (paper books only, but apparently they're going online later in the year).

Off the back of this I just managed to get some info from "the Green guide", so have a good steer now (pun intended), thanks for the advice.

Arbitrary African biking photo below... Wink

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