So let's hear you better alternative, friend.
No, he's not. You're not familiar with the program, so you really can't make an asinine statement like that. What do you pay for the stupid HOG membership, that only grants a 10% discount? No offense, but I really don't want to pay for the Hog Tales magazine (should be called MoCo advertisement magazine) that comes 3 or 4 times a year, so I can attend some meetings with a bunch of other people.
I don't need to be in an "elite" club to ride my bike and qualify for a little deal on parts from my local dealer. Who, by the way, employs people who live in my county. HOG members only get 10%. With my first purchase, I instantly qualified for 12%. They give you extra points just for logging miles on your bike, and I won another point just for attending the MVP dinners. Like I stated above, the day I purchased the MVP membership, my wheel and a bunch of other stuff, I immediately saved around $300. So adding the cost of the membership, I STILL saved well over $225. Whenever I buy various things, like oil/filters, clothes, etc, I wait until the MVP nights and get additional discounts on top of the membership discount. If you work it to your advantage, it's a really good program.
http://www.starvedrockhdmvp.com/main.php
In fact, this weekend, they are offering DOUBLE discounts for MVP members. So I'll get 28% off my Tour Pak if I order it this weekend. Guess I know where I'll be Saturday morning. That extra discount added this weekend will work out to about another $140 off the Tour Pak and optional stuff I want for it. That alone is almost twice the one-time $75 fee. So I ask you... how is that "screwing me up the ass"?
http://www.starvedrockhd.com/
It is good to see that
you are able to take advantage of his fee, but why should you have to pay that fee to begin with
Our dealer gives free tire mounting to HOG members.....so let's see I have 3 bikes. One goes through 3 rear tires a year, one goes through 2 rear tires a year and the other goes through 1 rear tire each year. At $99 per tire mount and ballance with 6 tires comes to $594 minus the cost of being a HOG member of $40/year and $10/year for local, comes to a savings of $504 per year. And believe you me, it is the only reason that I am a member
When I use my Visa card I receive up to 3% of my charges in chrome cash from Harley. At one time I put 3500 on account at the Dealership. They had an offer that if you put monies on account, for every $75 they would give you $100. So my 3500 turned into $4375. Then one day they had a fish bowl with discounts that you will receive on your purchase, well I drew 25% off, so I ordered every part that I needed to completely rebuild my 02 from the ground up.....Oh yea now I have $5375 on account in which I spent pretty much every dime
....Oh yea forgot...had to be a HOG member to take advantage of HIS discounts and offers.
So for $50 I received $504 for free+ $1875 = $2379
Not beating an old horse but....if you are able to take advantage of the discount/deal that your dealer is offering....then
GREAT but for the average Joe that is living week to week, paying out a fee to receive a discount is a tough thing to do.