Originally Posted by
PlatyPius
As to why it bugs people that BD puts a high list price on their bikes.... It's because NO ONE ELSE sells BD bikes. They are the only seller of Motobecane, Windsor, Mercier, etc. Who is the MSRP for? No one. As the only seller, what they sell for is the MSRP; not their inflated number that they use to make it look like such a great deal.
That's interesting. Around where I live, if one wants to advertise reduced prices, they'll actually have to have sold the product at the non-reduced price earlier. They cannot just grab the non-reduced price out of thin air and claim the "now" price is 70% or 400 EUR lower.
--J