2001-01-26 Harley-Davidson Response - Minnesota Judicial Branch

Condcnsclt IV hniel M. Lund
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I credit union to horrclw, wh;rtcvcr. Then I think I asked him I my tlauglrtcr in there, and hc skiys -- I says, well, IICIW
2 Illcn whal Ihc: price was. And he lold me wh il was, and I 2 ahout if I lradc my ‘Y7 in? I-lc said WC: tlon’( even w;rnI
3 said, well, that’s ;I lo1 higher than MSIW price. hd hc 3 your ‘Y7. We liavc all lhc SporWm wc wait. We don’t
4 said, well, ll\al’s the price. Do you wail il or do you 4 even wan1 it. I said, Well, funny, wlicn I originally
5 don’t want it? And I said ICI mc think ahout it. And I 5 purchnscti this, I asked you if I had :rnothcr motorcycle
6 didn’t go right ~OWII that tiny and purchase Ihe hike. 6 that I could trade, you would take li~c trade-in on it. NOW
7 Q, t hw did you know what Ihc MSRP price W;IS at 7 you don’t cvcn want my motorcycle. Now you tlw’r want 10
X llinl time? x take ;I trade-in. All you W;II~I IO do is charge me this
Y A. fSccau.se I had ~1 hnrnd new hroclmrc. Every Y extra price over and ahovc MSRIJ. I s;rid I think that’s
0 year I get a hroehure on the hikes that come out. When 1 IO really had.
I got my ‘Y7, I had ;I ‘Y7 hrochurc. When the ‘9X came out, I 1 I All you ever get its answers for my questions
2 bad ‘YX brochure. And I had a brochure on 1l1c ‘YYs. 12 is, If you CIOII’I wanl il, we’ll give your SSOO hack. We’ll
3 Q. Who called you on the phone tlrut time? I 3 sell it to somebody else. They don’t want to deal with
4 A. I believe it was Dick Grecman. 14 you. So that’s wbal I said, Well, let mc talk IO 111~
5 Q. And when you told him that wasn’t MSRP. did I 5 manager. I-it said, (.)kay, we’ll go gel Kevin.
6 you tell him -- 16 So WI: wed in IO Kevin’s whalcver -- I don’t
7 A. I said, Why is the price so high? That’s way I 7 know if that was his office, some back room there
8 over MSRP prior. 18 someplace. And we sat and ha&led there for, I don’t know,
9 Q. What did he say? 19 a half-hour or an hour about the prior. And I called other
‘0 A. That’s what he said. He says, If you don’t 20 dealers, and I knew what they were selling over MSRP. And
I want it, then we’ll sell it to somebody else. He said you 2 I their price was ridiculous. He said, Well, everyone has
.2 can come down and get your $500. 22 their own price. They can -sell what they want to.
:3 0. What did you tell Mr. Freeman’! 23 Q. Let me back up. You were aware that all the
.4 A. I said let me think about it. 24 other dealers were also selling over MsRP?
.5 Q. Anything else? Did you tell him anything 25 A. At that model, yes, they were, yes.
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I other than that? I Q. And I want to make sure we’re clear here.
2 A. At that time, I don’t think I did. 2 Were you just upset that you thought you were paying too
3 Q. Okay. What happened next? 3 much for this motorcycle’?
4 A. Well, 1 don’t remember how many days it was 4 A. Yes, too much over MSRI’. yes.
5’ that I went down. Then my daughter, 1 told my daughter 5 Q. Was there any discussions at that point about
6 about that because she bought all her bikes down in Iowa 6 what had or had not been promised IO you?
7 and she knew what the prices of the bikes were. And she 7 A. Well, yes. I just understood 111at I was going
8 said that’s ridiculous that you’t~ paying that amount of 8 to pay MSRP when it came in. Zhat’s all I planned on
9 money, especially after you’ve been doing all your business 9 paying. That’s why I was shocked when il was wdy above il
0 with them. She said when you bought, you to&d. You 10 Q. Again, was that just what you understood or
I I didn’t have much money. ‘Ihey told you it was going to be 11 hadthatactuaIlyb&npromisedtoyou?
I2 MSRP. And I didn’t want to even buy that much expensive 12 A. I told you. Dick Gtwzman, that’s what he
13 bike at that time. And she says I think that’s a hardship 13 said. I went by what his word was.
14 cm you. I don’t think tha& right, and I’m going to go 14 Q. Was that brought up at all as part of your
IS downthemandtalktothom~ SbesaidIcantaIktoKevin. 15 conversations witb Mr. Kuelbs?
16 I’ll talk to hi+ She said she didn’t know anything about 16 A. Yes, it was. IL-
17 Dick Gnzemaq but she said I can talk to Kevin. 17 Q. Whatwassaid?
18 So I don’t know. Maybe she knew him before. 18 A. I said I thought I was supposed to be paying
19 I don’t know. But anyway, so then she went down there with 19 this MSRP price, what the brochure says. Why is it so
RI me when we decided to go down there to get it. And then 20 high? He said our markup, we can charge whatever we want
11 that was when we decided to, after we talked in Kevin’s 21 If you don’t want to buy it, we’ll sell it to somebody
12 oftice for I don’t know how long, we got kind of hot and 22 else. And I said, Well, then I’ve got to wait another four
23 heavy. 23 years for another bike. That don’t .seem right.
24 And when I talked lo Dick Grecman at first, 24 Q. What Mr. Greeman pa-l of that conversation?
25 the way it aclually came out when I went in his office with 25 A. Yes, be was.
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