Oh, I didn't think the original price was out-of-line -- it had a bigger engine than a Buddy International 150, fuel-injection, and still was right about the same MSRP with a top case included! Sounded like a great deal, actually. But now knowing that these are built on the mainland where labor is much cheaper than in Taiwan, I can easily believe there was some serious profit-taking on this model. The new MSRP reflects a more reasonable profit margin, or maybe a bit less than average for Kymco (as you say, it's entirely possible that they overproduced this model and undersold it to dealers, but they won't lose money on it at that price).
However, my dealer (for whom I work on occasion, and designed & maintain the web site) does not buy scores of Kymcos every year, but rather as many as a dozen or so in a good year, and as few as one or two in a year like 2009-2010. He buys and sells scores of Genuine Buddys, though. And in good years, we can sell an Agility 125 for every couple-or-three of Buddys sold. So he'll have to eat that -- he's already paid to floor it for almost a year now, so even selling it at $3400 OTD, taxes included, he's going to take a loss. And no, I don't think he's going to see any adjustment from KymcoUSA on that.
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