Anyone Headed to the Wausau Snowmobile Show Wednesday March 27, 2019

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1fujifilm

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Anyone Headed to the Wausau Snowmobile Show Wednesday March 27, 2019
4-9PM

Central Wisconsin Expo Center
10101 Market Street
Wausau, Wisconsin 54474
USA

FYI on Doo Units at the show;

MXZ X-RS 850 E-TEC Sunburst Yellow
MXZ X 600R E-TEC Sunburst Yellow
Renegade X-RS 900 ACE Turbo Manta Green
Renegade X 850 E-TEC Manta Green
Backcountry X 850 E-TEC Sunburst Yellow/Black
Freeride 146 850 E-TEC Intense Blue
Summit X with Expert Package 154 850 E-TEC Ultimate Black/Orange Crush
Grand Touring Limited 900 ACE Turbo Hyper Silver
Expedition XTREME 850 E-TEC Lava Red
Expedition SE 900 ACE Turbo Viper Red/Black


I'm gonna try to make it and see if they hand out coupons.

Bear
 
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old abe

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Thanks for the info fuji! If I can, I will get with you to meet up. Busy getting geared up to farm.
 
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gade-thrasher

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Only Doo and Yamaha will be at the Expo Center. Cat is a no-show. Polaris is the day before at the Hilton Garden Inn in Rib Mountain.
 
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snocrazy

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skidoo up here this weekend doing demo rides. Cherrywood in wetmore.
Ride em.... better than looking at them. :)
 
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eagle1

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gade-thrasher said:
Only Doo and Yamaha will be at the Expo Center. Cat is a no-show. Polaris is the day before at the Hilton Garden Inn in Rib Mountain.
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Well that's dumb. WTH is wrong them. Guess might not go at all then, doesn't pay drive 1 1/2 hr to see only one manufacturer.
 
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1fujifilm

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gade-thrasher said:
Only Doo and Yamaha will be at the Expo Center. Cat is a no-show. Polaris is the day before at the Hilton Garden Inn in Rib Mountain.
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Someone on Doo-Talk said it like this; "Poo has slowed it's rebates substantially in order to become a premier snowmobile manufacturer alongside Doo". While I can attest that over the past two complete seasons this is true about rebates it will be interesting to see how it works out. One thing you can't doo is let your dealers hang with too much product or they will end up like Cat.
Interestingly enough, Doo has countered this strategy of rebates the past two late seasons by adding large end of season rebates to their sleds when Poo has tightened up.
Taking the introduction of the 2020 Poo's "off-site" (rather than at the common show) is a strategy I have seen before in my work industry. In my example, it seemed to work when I attended but only lasted three years and they were back at the main show. It was too expensive to recreate a separate show and really accomplished nothing but to inconvenience the buyers of the product.

Bear
 
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old abe

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1fujifilm said:
Someone on Doo-Talk said it like this; "Poo has slowed it's rebates substantially in order to become a premier snowmobile manufacturer alongside Doo". While I can attest that over the past two complete seasons this is true about rebates it will be interesting to see how it works out. One thing you can't doo is let your dealers hang with too much product or they will end up like Cat.
Interestingly enough, Doo has countered this strategy of rebates the past two late seasons by adding large end of season rebates to their sleds when Poo has tightened up.
Taking the introduction of the 2020 Poo's "off-site" (rather than at the common show) is a strategy I have seen before in my work industry. In my example, it seemed to work when I attended but only lasted three years and they were back at the main show. It was too expensive to recreate a separate show and really accomplished nothing but to inconvenience the buyers of the product.

Bear
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Perhaps it is the rebate thing that has Poo going different direction?
 
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1fujifilm

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just_ride said:
so how was the show...your thoughts
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A bust.

-No coupons
-Only Ski-Doo attended.
-Individual Ski-Doo Dealers were there from 8 or 10 WI shops and no factory Doo reps. I would rather have Doo reps, I see my Dealers already.
-The Rothschild convention center is rather old and reminds me of a K-Mart or Shopko that went belly up and they could not fill the space so they made it a convention space. Better off to have it in Green Bay like AWSC did last week at Oneida Casino.

Holy poop, I drove from Green Bay to the show R/T and HWY 29 took a beating last winter. Not to mention the parking lot at the show, that lot has thousands of pot holes, yes thousands (probably tens of thousands).

Bear
 
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zozo2

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Food for thought for next year. I went to the showing at Lake Geneva couple of weeks ago, and there was a factory rep there who was just great to talk with as I looked over the GT. Found out lots of things about my 2019 current sled that I never picked up at my local dealership. Although the "showing" at Lake Geneva was inside a tent, and in the midst of some racing event (Yikes!!! Loud!!!) on a big hillside covered with snow and constantly being groomed, with muddy slushy grounds and a shuttle to the parking area, I would likely go again to this 3-day showing if for no other reason to talk with a factory rep that really seemed to know his stuff..."Thanks again Nolan!" I, too, have been to Wausau in the past, but it was a letdown I thought.
 
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