I contacted Triumph about a dealership here in Charleston.. First I was told that there is one other person looking into it and I would be second to him if I did try to open one.. I was like ok I have money in hand he is yanking yalls chain, but anyhow. He mailed me a package about the requirments for opening one. First you have to pay Triumph 150K,next to you to open a line of credit with GE capitol for 300K, then you have to have Triumph approve your building. Then you have ot have factory trained techs stock parts and and all their other loop holes.. Now to build a building here in a good location I am looking at 350K to 500K for land and add 300K on top of that for the building, then 50K for shop tools and so on.. So befor I would have opend the doors I would have had a million tied up in the shop and not sold a bike yet.. Then comes the advertising, the day to day supplies,pay roll, lights, water, phone, net etc etc etc.. They are making it very hard for people to open the doors and sell their product.. I have no where near the money to puyt up, but could find investors, and I am just not having other people tell me how to run my business..
