BMW Australia Price rises again tomorrow

andrew@southernBM · 06-30-2009, 05:07 AM

It is with no pleasure i inform you that tomorrow BMW prices will rise again 8%.

This brings the total financial year increases for 08/09 to 30%. I was just told a memo was sent out tonight and is implemented tomorrow morning.

Alext · 06-30-2009, 05:11 AM

What is the reason behind the rise? Have BMW list prices really gone up 22% for the year?

sparoz · 06-30-2009, 05:14 AM

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Originally Posted by andrew@southernBM

It is with no pleasure i inform you that tomorrow BMW prices will rise again 8%.

This brings the total financial year increases for 08/09 to 30%. I was just told a memo was sent out tonight and is implemented tomorrow morning.

Is that on cars or parts?

Chris.G · 06-30-2009, 05:14 AM

WTF for, we already pay a ridiculous amount compared to the yanks anyway.

andrew@southernBM · 06-30-2009, 05:32 AM

Pricing i was talking about relates to parts. Who knows why, blame anything like economic crisis, currency flucuations, we cannot do anything about it. I'll get a hard copy tomorrow and have a read. It is common to get parts price increases every month but this much in one hit is hard to take. It pisses me off. As a business it adds to my costs that i have to pass on.

Chris.G · 06-30-2009, 05:38 AM

hahaha I thought you were talking about car prices. Nevertheless it still is rediculous to increase parts by 8%.

takahashi · 06-30-2009, 06:30 AM

More reason to order the parts overseas. They will not win.

WAY · 06-30-2009, 07:08 AM

Andrew, BMW is smarter than you. They will say that they have only increased 8% so far as tomorrow is a new financial year!!!

aus135i · 06-30-2009, 07:12 AM

ROFL +1 what WAY said ... ^^

AussieRacer · 06-30-2009, 07:48 AM

Interestingly I brought two oil filters from Doncaster on the weekend for $32. I paid about $25 previously so I thought things were getting cheaper!

MickyD · 06-30-2009, 06:17 PM

it'll be interesting (to say the least) to see if there's an increase in the car prices as well, considering I'm supposed to pick up my car in the next week or so.....

sparoz · 06-30-2009, 07:21 PM

I guess if they can't sell enough cars, they just have to make it from somewhere else to keep the company afloat. I would like to complain, but that's what business is.

Zuzu · 06-30-2009, 07:46 PM

I had to raise our Gym membership prices by 5% to compensate for a 15% hike in our rent.. First membership increase I have levied in nine years and I had a avalanche of complaints from members..Yet, we have spent a average of about $150K per year on upgrades in that time...

WHAT is BMW's excuse for such a hike in their prices.???? NONE, and the best part is, they dont have to explain themselves..

TimMc · 06-30-2009, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by sparoz

I guess if they can't sell enough cars, they just have to make it from somewhere else to keep the company afloat. I would like to complain, but that's what business is.

I thought they may have been trying to make the extra money with the $400 oil change they quoted me

m 135 · 06-30-2009, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by TimMc

I thought they may have been trying to make the extra money with the $400 oil change they quoted me

I got an oil-change last week(3000k run-in oil change)it cost me $224.00 with oil/filter/labour which i thought was quite good for BMW.

I paid about that to get an oil change on my ss ute

aus135i · 06-30-2009, 10:08 PM

Joe where's ur gym? near Parra?

Yea my 1st oil/filter/labour was abt $250 as well...

Alext · 06-30-2009, 10:16 PM

An oil/filter change came to about $290 for me but that was with very expensive Mobil 1 0W-40. So not tooo bad. But then again my Lotus cost only $240 for a 'A' service inc. oil/filter change and it takes a good while to take the two undertrays off & back on plus the front access panels alone...

sparoz · 06-30-2009, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Zuzu

I had to raise our Gym membership prices by 5% to compensate for a 15% hike in our rent.. First membership increase I have levied in nine years and I had a avalanche of complaints from members..Yet, we have spent a average of about $150K per year on upgrades in that time...

WHAT is BMW's excuse for such a hike in their prices.???? NONE, and the best part is, they dont have to explain themselves..

Declining car sales

. We are worst off, we can't even increase our price as it's set by the Government. And we are faced with award modernisation next year which will put up our wages by 25%...

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andrew@southernBM 171 Rep 1,537 Posts Drives: M2 G87, M4 G82 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Melbourne, Australia. iTrader: (0)	Pricing i was talking about relates to parts. Who knows why, blame anything like economic crisis, currency flucuations, we cannot do anything about it. I'll get a hard copy tomorrow and have a read. It is common to get parts price increases every month but this much in one hit is hard to take. It pisses me off. As a business it adds to my costs that i have to pass on.
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