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**Ashton Crusher** · October 28th 06, 07:47 AM posted to rec.autos.makers.ford.mustang

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:27:53 -0500,
(Brent P) wrote:

>In article >, ZombyWoof wrote:
>
>> can get". You have to remember that it isn't Ford that is setting the
>> market price, it is the market itself.
>
>I am so tired of that saying.... the markets are often manipulated, and
>the GT500 can be used as a text book study of market manipulation and
>artificial scarcity.
>

If we were talking about Ford Escorts or Taurus's I might agree, but
this is a limited production specialty vehicle that not a single
person on earth *needs* to have. By definition the whole point of this
kind of vehicle is that they are scarce and overpriced and intended
for people with more money then they have a need for. I suppose you
can call it market manipulation but it's certainly not the same kind
of manipulation for greedy and nefarious purposes as the oil price
game is. Ford isn't trying to manipulate a mid-term congressional
election outcome they way the oil companies are doing.

>> If that dealer is able to move
>> the one it has at $70k it will try to move the next one it gets at
>> $70k. I don't know how much the dealers are paying for the cars when
>> they but them from Ford, but it is safe to assume somewhere less then
>> sticker price.
>
>When each dealer gets one or two, they can up the price a great deal and
>wait for a sucker, the abberation of an uninformed buyer. Not only that,
>but it's not like the dealer down the street or the next town over can
>bring the price down. He's only got a couple to sell too, so even if he
>sells them at sticker, the first dealer can still wait for a sucker or
>someone with more money than sense and wants it now.
>
>Ideal free market conditions would have another dealer being able to come
>in and supply more cars at a lower price to undercut the dealers charging
>$20K over sticker. Ford controls the supply of cars without regard to
>what dealers are charging and thusly the market isn't free. $65K isn't
>the price a free market will bear, but rather the maximum price a
>manipulated market can be pushed to.
>
>This isn't free market setting the price, it's market manipulation and
>artificial scarcity in action. The market is being controlled to create
>conditions that increase prices rather than the ideal free market setting
>of the price.