SRP goes up AGAIN

[laniabamby]

hey guys. do you think its reasonable for honda to adjust the SRP again when almost all other car dealers are giving discounts?

[nurse_corrupted]

As long as consumers are buying hondas even without discounts, it will always be the up to honda to adjust prices.

As long as there is demand, you can't do anything about it.

[laniabamby]

yup i know honda has the right to increase it anytime they want. business is all about making money . but is it reasonable? example, tagal na ng civic no new features added pero nag-adjust. sana man lang nag-facelift ng konti ala-vios hehe

[ghosthunter]

hey guys. do you think its reasonable for honda to adjust the SRP again when almost all other car dealers are giving discounts?

Honda doesn't have to have a "reason".

Honda has all the right to increase prices all they want.

Just like car buyers having the right to choose cars other than Honda. But they still go back to Honda anyway.

[laniabamby]

*ghost - excellent answer. when oil prices went up to almost p60, i hope you were saying "THE BIG THREE doesn't have to have a reason. they have all the right to increase prices all they want"

[br733]

accord is made in thailand and effective this year duties went down from 20% to zero. i dont recall prices going down for accord. i am not sure where civic, city and crv is made.

how much was the increase?

[ghosthunter]

*ghost - excellent answer. when oil prices went up to almost p60, i hope you were saying "THE BIG THREE doesn't have to have a reason. they have all the right to increase prices all they want"

Hehehe... yup, the big three can raise gasoline prices all they want. For one thing, there was actually less traffic on the road for those days of extreme fuel prices resulting in smoother drives through the metro.

BTW, my car uses Auto-LPG.

[laniabamby]

*ghost - good for you . any other excellent answers? is it REASONABLE?

[uls]

they don't have to be reasonable

they're not selling basic goods

ano ba ang jazz, civic, CRV?

grocery items na may SRP ng DTI?

they can raise their prices as they wish

they don't have to explain anything to anyone

[actor21]

accord is made in thailand and effective this year duties went down from 20% to zero. i dont recall prices going down for accord. i am not sure where civic, city and crv is made.

how much was the increase?

dito ako interested..me makakasagot ba nito?

[laniabamby]

*uls - another excellent reply. the question is IS IT REASONABLE

when we found out that mwss execs were giving themselves bonuses, it is legal but is it reasonable? from your reply, mwss execs "they don't have to explain anything to anyone"

when we found out about garci,zte, is it reasonable?from your reply, gma,abalos,etc "they don't have to explain anything to anyone"

simple lang ang tanung, is it reasonable?

[istan]

Civic and City = Thailand rin ata.
CRV, thai rin. :D

Duties went down to 0%. Additional money saved went to pockets of the manufacturer/dealers. Its called profit.

If prices are not reasonable/palatable. Don't buy.

[uls]

*uls - another excellent reply. the question is IS IT REASONABLE

when we found out that mwss execs were giving themselves bonuses, it is legal but is it reasonable? from your reply, mwss execs "they don't have to explain anything to anyone"

when we found out about garci,zte, is it reasonable?from your reply, gma,abalos,etc "they don't have to explain anything to anyone"

simple lang ang tanung, is it reasonable?

govt execs get paid with our tax money

corrupt govt people steal our tax money

taxpayers deserve an explanation

ang layo naman ng analogy mo dude

honda sells cars to people who have free will to decide to buy or not to buy depending if they can afford or cannot afford

honda cars are not basic goods that people cannot live without

honda's prices do not affect the lives of the masses

maybe honda's prices affect some people

people who wanna buy a honda

if honda raised their prices and those people who wanna buy a honda are now unable to afford one, honda doesnt owe them any explanation

coz it's a car

not water, not sugar, not rice

nobody will die

you want an explanation?

2 words -- PROFIT MARGIN

[niky]

The question "is it reasonable" can't be answered unless you state by how much Honda has increased the MSRP. But if it's the typical 50k peso ($1k) correction, it's probably reasonable.

*ghost - excellent answer. when oil prices went up to almost p60, i hope you were saying "THE BIG THREE doesn't have to have a reason. they have all the right to increase prices all they want"

They don't have to have a reason. But that doesn't mean they increase without one.

If the "Big Three" increase fuel prices when global oil prices are low, they lose market volume to the midsized players (Total, SeaOil, UniOil). They maintain the margin they have to small players (like Jetti and less known gas services) by what the market will accept.

That's the long and short of it. I found it quite funny when the media praised UniOil for lowering prices when the "Big Three" weren't, when in truth... everyone else had lowered before, and UniOil was simply lowering to meet the rest of the market.

The whole idea of there being a "Big Three" is BS. We have a "Big Two" in Shell and Petron... a few medium sized players (Caltex, SeaOil and TOTAL) and a bunch of small ones. Even then, the "medium" players like Caltex and TOTAL are bigger globally than Petron.

Back when it was just them, they were effectively a cartel. but the Government conceived of their stake in Petron as a way of preventin profiteering and keeping prices low. Guess what? Petron had to charge just the same as everyone else to stay profitable. Nowadays, that's more true than ever... however smaller companies will happily sell fuel to you at a lower profit margin because they don't have the market share to compete in terms of expansion and investment.

Make more money, you have more money to invest in better facilities, more new stations and better service. Make less money, and you'll close down in just a few short years.

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I hope you remember all this next time you go to eat at McDonald's or Jollibee and wonder why they can't lower their prices to compete with Minute Burger and Burger Machine. Burger Machine used the cheaper-is-better idea to try to gain market share back in the 90's with their bigger non-stall stores. However, since they couldn't charge more for their burgers at these stores, they couldn't turn a profit, so they're back to being food-stall fodder.

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Honda doesn't need a reason to increase prices. That's inflation. If others are giving discounts, that's because they're not meeting quotas and are not getting the market share they want. (again with the market share)

If you want a Toyota now, it's never been cheaper. Might come back to bite them in the butt, all the incentives and discounts they're giving out (includng 0% financing in the US)... but Toyota is desperate to maintain global market share in the face of recent scandals.

Good for buyers. If you've always wanted a Vios, now's the time to get one.

[red07]

*uls - another excellent reply. the question is IS IT REASONABLE

when we found out that mwss execs were giving themselves bonuses, it is legal but is it reasonable? from your reply, mwss execs "they don't have to explain anything to anyone"

when we found out about garci,zte, is it reasonable?from your reply, gma,abalos,etc "they don't have to explain anything to anyone"

simple lang ang tanung, is it reasonable?

It's simple, if you think that it's unreasonable for Honda to increase their SRP, then don't buy a honda. And BTW, Honda Cars does not benefit from taxpayers money like those people you mentioned, oh boy, they owe us a lot of explanation

[uls]

ano ba gusto marinig ng threadstarter from Honda?

Dear Customer,

We apologize deeply if we screwed up your dream of owning a new Honda coz we raised our prices.

We raised our prices simply coz we wanna make more money.

We are aware other carmakers have reduced their prices.

We don't care.

We're not afraid of losing customers.

Coz our brand is so f*#kin exceptional, so f*#kin prestigious, that even if we raise our prices, people will keep buying our cars.

Our higher prices will even make our brand more exceptional and prestigious.

Our higher prices will create an image of exclusivity.

Our higher prices separate our cars from mass market cars like those being sold by dealers across the street.

So dear Customer, if you really wanna buy a Honda, come up with the money to buy one.

Hope to see you in our showrooms.

[red07]

ano ba gusto marinig ng threadstarter from Honda?

Dear Customer,

We apologize deeply if we screwed up your dream of owning a new Honda coz we raised our prices.

We raised our prices simply coz we wanna make more money.

We are aware other carmakers have reduced their prices.

We don't care.

We're not afraid of losing customers.

Coz our brand is so f*#kin exceptional, so f*#kin prestigious, that even if we raise our prices, people will keep buying our cars.

Our higher prices will even make our brand more exceptional and prestigious.

Our higher prices will create an image of exclusivity.

Our higher prices separate our cars from mass market cars like those being sold by dealers across the street.

So dear Customer, if you really wanna buy a Honda, come up with the money to buy one.

Hope to see you in our showrooms.

:bwahaha::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::lola bove:

[laniabamby]

calm down fellow tsikoters, maybe honda SAs, honda employee, even honda managers, lurkers

i am not asking HONDA ph..kindly read my inquiry

"hey guys. do you think its reasonable for honda to adjust the SRP again when almost all other car dealers are giving discounts?"

also, meaning of reasonable po below:
reasonable - not extreme or excessive

tong si ghosthunter kasi nagpaumpisa ng "Honda doesn't have to have a reason"

the question is IS IT REASONABLE? i am not asking why the prices increased, IS IT REASONABLE? kain ng mani para tumalino hehe peace

[tidus1203]

Is it reasonable (the idea of raising prices on a car)? Its not a reasonable question!

[laniabamby]

*uls - di ka pwede sa daang matuwid ni noynoy. baluktot reasoning mo. google ka alamin mo meaning ng reasonable