Quote Originally Posted by MartianDestiny View Post
I've also been hearing numerous reports (here and elsewhere) about entire manufacturing runs already being sold out or backordered for months. If they don't sell that bike to you they WILL sell it and they WILL sell it at a profit, so there is no incentive whatsoever for them to haggle with you (other than your continued business, which, if you present yourself as the customer that's going to question and haggle every price they aren't going to really want unless they are really hurting...).
I can confirm part of what you wrote. I was in the LBS over the weekend and the owner told me Trek is sold out of almost all of their road bikes, except for the entry level versions, until the 2011 production comes out. The LBS has buyers for the upper end road bikes and can't get inventory. I ride a Pilot 5.2, which I love. Trek stopped making the Pilot for some reason, then produced some more Pilots in 2010 at the lower range, and the production was sold out by March. The LBS said the Madone is sold out except for the entry level versions. I asked, what happened? Did the economy improve? Is there a sudden increase in demand for upper end road bikes?