Companies will just keep over charging you as long as you are willing to pay. Instead of complaining, just don't buy it if you think the price is too high.
Just did an amusing currency conversion. Based on the Street 750 being 5 lakh in India (yeah, I know its actually cheaper than that in reality) - the bike should be about $8908 Australian dollars.
Interesting that we are only getting the 500 here & not the 750, yet we told our price will be somewhere between $10-12 thousand dollars.
Typical Australian ripoff, everything you buy here is overpriced to **** & it gets worse every year.
Im still buying the bike!![]()
You are correct about why we are getting the 500 (LAMS rules etc).I will be very surprised to see the bike hit the showrooms here any lower than $12,000 & even then I doubt it will be a ride away price. Heres hoping I am proven wrong.My understanding is that Australia is getting the 500 version first because of your LAM licenses (Learner Approved Motorcycle has limit of 650cc). And the price of 10,000-12,000 is your "ride away" price, what we Americans would call the "Out the Door price". Add sales tax, freight, dealer prep, doc fee, license, and registration to the USA price of $6700 on the Street 500 and we really pay about $8500 to ride the bike away. So if the price is $10,000 in Australia, that's only $1500 more than USA. Not as much of a ripoff as it seems at first.
In spain the 750 starts with 7300 euro and in italy 7800 euro thats expensive!
Can't look up accessories for the Street on Harley's USA website yet. But here are prices for comparable Sportster accessories.You are correct about why we are getting the 500 (LAMS rules etc).I will be very surprised to see the bike hit the showrooms here any lower than $12,000 & even then I doubt it will be a ride away price. Heres hoping I am proven wrong.
Spoke to the dealer where I bought my 500 recently to see if he had any updates on delivery. He mentioned that the 750 may be available here as a special order. No more information available than that I'm afraid.
Did some calculations on the three main accessories I want with the bike as well. Here we go based on conversion to Australian dollars from INR.
Engine guard (black) $261
Screamin Eagle air cleaner kit $101
Nightstick muffler $448
How do these prices seem to you folks in the US?
Good thinking sherri thanks for pointing that out so everyone has an idea for accessorory prices.Can't look up accessories for the Street on Harley's USA website yet. But here are prices for comparable Sportster accessories.
Engine guard $214.95
Screamin Eagle stage 1 air cleaner kit $149.95
Nightstick muffler $329.95
Not necessarily interested in these. Posted this in reply to poster Revolution-X, who wanted to know USA prices on accessories.Good thinking sherri thanks for pointing that out so everyone has an idea for accessorory prices.
Are those the accessories you are interested in?
what is the average yearly income in australia?
Compare this to the USA. The median income for a full-time worker is $41,392 a year. I haven't been able to find a figure for the average income per worker. Median household income is $51,017 per year. The median wealth per adult in the USA is a measly $44,911, ranking us at #27 and below countries like Ireland and Slovenia. Although the USA has the most millionaires with 13.2 million people worth over a million dollars.As of 2011, the most recent year for which I could find data, the median income in Australia for full time workers, meaning that income at which there are as many people above that income level as there are below, is $57,400 AUD. The mean income, which is the arithmetic average income, is $72,800. That simply shows that there are a group of Australians with very high incomes skewing the average towards the high side.
In terms of median wealth per adult, Australians are the wealthiest people in the world. Credit Suisse is showing a median wealth per adult for Australia of $219,505 US dollars. In terms of average wealth per adult, Australians are number two behind Switzerland.
The Australians call their country the "Lucky Country". Luck? Or hard work?
I was on the verge of immigrating to Australia several years ago. What deterred me is their relationship to Great Britain, who's royalty and basic government I detest, and the continued presence of a British Governor General who is, according to the Australian Constitution "Governor-General appointed by the Queen shall be Her Majesty's representative in the Commonwealth" As such, the Governor-General is President of the Federal Executive Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Defence Force, as well as Viceregal representative in the Australian Capital Territory. The functions of the Governor-General include appointing ambassadors, ministers, and judges, giving Royal Assent to legislation, issuing writs for elections, and bestowing honours.[2] The constitution grants the Governor-General a wide range of powers, but, in practice, they follow the conventions of the Westminster system and responsible government and, with rare exceptions, act only on the advice of the Prime Minister of Australia or other ministers or, in certain cases, Parliament. There has been one case in 1975 where the Governor General removed from office the elected Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam.so i guess even though their things are more expensive. life is not so bad!![]()