Qlink questions

[rnrperry98]

I went to a local scooter shop (a authorized Qlink dealer) and they have a Qlink Commuter in stock. It comes with a two year warranty and they assemble it and get it road ready.

The price at the dealer was $3700.

I saw on CBXMAN that they have one that goes through a very good inspection delivered ready to ride for.$3399.99.

I found on line (I called in) at Men in tools that for an August special they will deliver one to your door for $2699, and you do final assembly.

I have a few questions, does anyone know?

Will Qlink still honor the warranty if I assemble the scooter?

If I was to buy from CBXMAN would any authorized dealer be able to do any warranty work or would I have to go through the original dealer?

Does anyone think the price for assembly and an inspection is worth it?

While I am no mechanic I have spent many a weekend working on my cars and can do a lot of repairs (mostly because of financial reasons, not necessarily because I like it ha-ha).

I would really like to hear from some people that have gone through both dealer sales and home delivered sales and hear how your experience was.

Thanks

Rob

[banditms]

Rob,

In answer to your questions about QLink...

From my understanding, the unit has to be assembled and then registered by the dealer for the warranty to apply...

Also, the dealer is not supposed to provide the customer with an unassembled bike either... hence the dealer assembly requirement. So I don't know what Men In Tools is doing or why. Of course, your local dealer is charging $700 over MSRP so I don't know what they are doing either... unless it's all license, title and tax - which you'll pay on any bike you take to your DMV to register. You did factor those costs in, right?

If CBXMan did a complete assembly, then that seems to meet the criteria for the warranty to be in effect. But I think QLink also has some dealer territory protections in place, but that's all very 'grey' area details any more, even with the brand names. So at the very least, maybe your local dealer would be required by QLink to service the scooter under the warranty... but they may hate your guts for buying the scooter from CBXMan for $400 less... which after license, title and tax may be nothing anyways...

If you were 150 miles from an authorized dealer, that would be different. But if you have a local dealer, I'm not sure what QLink will say because the dealer is going to complain at least...

The 2-year, full warranty alone is worth the extra cost...

It's up to you. You can save up to $1k by doing it all yourself... and maybe the QLink will be trouble free. But if you do get into a spot and need some help, you may not want to burn any bridges with the local support guys...

My two-point-five cents worth...

Thanks, Jim J...
Bandit MotorSports

[hillbilly]

I think what you will find is that Qlink will honor the warranty from any authorized dealer.

The question is how your individual local dealer feels about the issue. Qlink is not going to try to force him to work on your scooter for you so it will be up to that dealer if he wants to do it or not. The reason Qlink has an online seller is to cover areas not served by a local dealer, not to compete with full service dealers. Now is the time to ask the local dealer if he wants to perform the warranty work on your new scoot, not after you get it. You can almost always beat local prices online, but I don't think it is always a good bargain. Depends on what expectations you have. You seem to want internet pricing supported by a local dealer who doesn't get to sell scooters. Personally I would feel bad even asking a local dealer to support something I just had shipped to me.

Not that I'm unwilling to buy things online, I just figure that I'm going to end up needing to take care of it myself and that any long distance assistance provided by the seller won't be that useful.

[bobpt]

rnrperry98,

You've got PM.

[rcfsr]

I would certainly agree with Banditms and Hillbilly on using a dealer instead of the internet. With a dealer you are more assured that everything is right on the scooter BEFORE you take that first ride and if there is something wrong, HE does the fixin'.. not you. You also get to see his facilities; meet and deal with him face to face and make up your mind if you want to spend that hard earned money with him. Later when those all important adjustments come due that you don't feel qualified to do ...or don't want to do, you don't have to feel awkward when taking the scoot in. In other words there is a lot more to be considered when buying a scooter than price.

In regard to your local dealers price, you didn't mention if that was an "out the door price" including tax, tag, box, radio etc or a bare bones price. It seems about right to me if it was an OTD figure as mentioned above, otherwise maybe some price dickering is in order.