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Can you buy a Harley Davidson with only Gift Cards?

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Bikes and Beards

Bikes and Beards

Жыл бұрын

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@johnlincoln4616
@johnlincoln4616 Жыл бұрын
Nice of the boss to put it on the salesman. Salesman had it right the first time he said “money is money”.
@brahtrumpwonbigly7309
@brahtrumpwonbigly7309 Жыл бұрын
Exactly. Not only that, then they turn around and reject the deal. Despite changing their minds, why tell the salesman it's his call if you don't want to do it?
@lothre
@lothre Жыл бұрын
@@brahtrumpwonbigly7309 My wife does the same thing to me, everytime she says "You pick where we eat for dinner tonight"
@MrPowerpen
@MrPowerpen Жыл бұрын
I agree that boss was a scumbag for not making the difficult decisions and trying to make his employees look bad
@Ronaldl2350
@Ronaldl2350 Жыл бұрын
@@MrPowerpen yeah the boss should have manned up and approved the sale.
@knightsljx
@knightsljx Жыл бұрын
to be fair to the boss, it was the owner that rejected the deal not the boss
@mitchellburke6376
@mitchellburke6376 Жыл бұрын
Lawyer here. That is some very well-deserved bad press for that dealership. They shouldn't have hesitated. The fine print is crystal clear - gift cards are redeemable for Harley Davidson PRODUCTS. The motorcycles themselves are the flagship examples of HD products.
@TheOriginalSebacrush
@TheOriginalSebacrush Жыл бұрын
The fine print also says "redeemable in participating dealerships "
@Farcyde021
@Farcyde021 Жыл бұрын
You cant fault them. No idea what back end charges they may face as well as the time it took to process that transaction. In the end they were good sports and any responsible business would question this completely unusual scenario.
@Ano-Nymous
@Ano-Nymous Жыл бұрын
To be more precise: Referring to the lawyer girl the cards only allow to buy merchandise. Not really sure if "merch" is the right expression for a whole bike. But nevertheless, imho the dealer made a real bad business decision that day.
@TristamWolf
@TristamWolf Жыл бұрын
@@Ano-Nymous Well, on the one hand, the specific language of the gift card (read aloud earlier) says "Products", but a motorcycle could still be called "Merchandise" accurately. On the other hand, though, the HD Cardholder's agreement stated that the dealership could choose to deny their purchase without much recourse. This purchase likely only went through because the buyer was the face of a nearly 2 million subscriber youtube channel. In basically any other case, the dealership would have pointed out that "This is very similar to a common scam tactic and we can't take that risk" and that'd be the end of it.
@moreplease394
@moreplease394 Жыл бұрын
I know this is an old comment but I'm interested in what you practice that you came to that conclusion
@Bardmusic66
@Bardmusic66 Жыл бұрын
I think they realized “he’s just going to go to a different dealer and they’ll sell it to him.” Dealerships compete with each other and they wanted the sale ultimately. Good video!
@serohaguju1054
@serohaguju1054 Жыл бұрын
Nah I think they looked him up on KZbin and figured the risk of refusing to accept a valid payment was too big
@rninness
@rninness Жыл бұрын
Exactly. Where else is he going to spend 20K with of non-refundable HD gift cards. . . At another dealer of course.
@brandonhood5581
@brandonhood5581 Жыл бұрын
I feel like there could be some legality or HD policy issues if they refuse to take the gift cards.
@alexandramarberry1023
@alexandramarberry1023 Жыл бұрын
And they probably weren't thinking it through with the non-refundable part meaning he had already invested that money, and were just wanting to refuse the gift cards in hopes he would go ahead and pay with another method. But when he stood up and walked out, they realized he wasn't going to buy the bike unless they accepted the gift cards.
@fujitsubo3323
@fujitsubo3323 Жыл бұрын
i doubt the dealer is struggling to make money and could not care less about loosing one sale. i think it came down to them realizing it wuld be a youtube video and it looking bad on HD as a brand in genreal and head office getting involved when a video is released showing that the cards are worth 2 grains of F all when you try buy a bike with them
@pannoncannon
@pannoncannon Жыл бұрын
Thing about the cashiers trying to talk you out of it is there is a giant scam where people get convinced to buy someone else a wild amount gift cards. You’ll typically see older people fall for it. Every grocery store I’d ever worked out would punish the cashier who sold the gift cards.
@Nic0Dr4ws
@Nic0Dr4ws Жыл бұрын
Yeah,the giant by me even has huge signs about it and stuff
@IiI_Gogeta_IiI
@IiI_Gogeta_IiI Жыл бұрын
See the thing is you can tell if someone is being scammed or not in those situations bikes and beards didn’t come across as someone being scammed he was very matter of fact when talking with them. For me I wouldn’t of had an inclination that he was being scammed based on tone and body language and the reason older people are more likely to fall for these scams is because they don’t understand most people born after the 80s hell even some born in the 60s understand these things. Though I will admit some older people are insanely intelligent so I can’t really dock all older people or claim all younger people are smart enough
@Batman-cq6ee
@Batman-cq6ee Жыл бұрын
facts it’s crazy i work in retail i’ve heard stories of people at other locations of my chain that have been scammed out of thousands, one instance where someone was scammed out of around $20k over a course of a few months
@johncenashi5117
@johncenashi5117 Жыл бұрын
Sorry but, if they get punished, why even have gift cards anymore?
@lxn_ni1814
@lxn_ni1814 Жыл бұрын
Exactly. You can actually be punished by law if there is enough neglect
@poteka
@poteka Жыл бұрын
Would have been a huge PR failure from them to refuse this. Respect for the HD dealer and for you guys as well.
@BikesandBeards
@BikesandBeards Жыл бұрын
yeah they were being kind of us the entire time. they were doing their best
@danhunters8226
@danhunters8226 Жыл бұрын
Still was a huge pr failure.
@lothre
@lothre Жыл бұрын
@@danhunters8226 my guess is, the employees made the owner aware of the size of Bikes and Bears subscriber list After Sean and Dan left, and suddenly realized they needed damage control FAST.
@REDCLAYHOMESTEAD
@REDCLAYHOMESTEAD Жыл бұрын
@@lothre My thoughts
@micksterboone4517
@micksterboone4517 Жыл бұрын
@@lothre My thoughts as well.
@brockpfund9669
@brockpfund9669 Жыл бұрын
"So what do you think changed?" What changed is the owner realized the huge amount of bad publicity he was going to get for being the 'uncool' guy that wouldn't accept all gift cards for a motorcycle sale after they figured out the size of your youtube channel.
@techdior
@techdior Жыл бұрын
yes
@letters5396
@letters5396 Жыл бұрын
yeah, they looked up the yt and saw 1.59m subscribers 😆
@WhoTFstolemyname
@WhoTFstolemyname Жыл бұрын
It's not like the effort for swiping the cards was more than setting up financing, running credit, etc. Maybe they realized they would get chewed out by HD, or told they couldn't accept gift cards in the future.
@TsterMr63
@TsterMr63 Жыл бұрын
Which means a regular guy couldn't do the same.
@brockpfund9669
@brockpfund9669 Жыл бұрын
@@WhoTFstolemyname when they go through all that extra work to set up financing they are actually getting paid well to do it. When vendors accept gift cards or credit cards for payments they automatically lose 3 to 5% or possibly more. So basically what happened here is the dealer didn't get to make any money off of financing yet still spent the extra time it would have taken just to run a bunch of gift cards that they're going to lose some money on to accept them. I mean if they would have been smart they would have made a big deal out of it and said 'Here at our dealership we welcome everyone with whatever form of legal payment they want to use!' 'We value our customers!!'. Instead they kinda made it look like they realized that they f**ked up because no HD dealer wants bad publicity.
@AMaineiac
@AMaineiac Жыл бұрын
The salesman was right on, "money is money." You can buy a bike with change (advise rolls to make it easier) if you wanted to. The boss was the one sketched out and he has a valid point about the gift card scammers. All in all the dealership did you right and it seems your salesman probably reached up the chain to get clarification after you left. Good on him and hope he gets a good commission for selling that bike to you!
@Davinhomx
@Davinhomx Жыл бұрын
I just want to throw in a little math here. Now this could be totally wrong. But let's say small merch stuff has a 40% margin but such a bike only has a 20% margin cause it is more expensive to produce. Now we actually would have a problem for the shop. Cause let's say they pay 1% in fees to harley. Those fees are sadly not bound to their margins or what they actually make with a sale. So while they could make 8000$ for small merch stuff that added up to a summ of 20k. With half the margin for a single 20k bike sale they would only make 4000$ on that. And now the problem is that they still would have to pay the exact same fees for both. See what I mean?. Now part of why the salesman called him back was probably also because he never asked if they "could do something" about the price, if you get what I mean. Chances are you get them down to 19.500$ or even lower if you ask. He didn't, so the fee never truly was a problem. Don't know how this goes in the states but in germany you can generally ask about reduced price if you visit a cardealer even if the car is new
@Doofens
@Doofens 2 ай бұрын
​@@Davinhomx let's put it this way. harley davidson doesn't make money from selling gift cards alone. they're losing money. they need to sell them to walmart for $22. you buy the card for $25. walmart keeps $1 and $3 go to the payment provider/ credit card company. so if you go to a dealer and want to pay with 300 $25 gift cards you're paying $7500 but the dealer only recieves $6600 becaue he had to sell them for $22 in the first place. roughtly a 10-15% decrease in margin. obviously they wouldn't want to do that when the customer could've just payed in cash
@Davinhomx
@Davinhomx 2 ай бұрын
@@Doofens i don't even remember the video by now. But lets just agree that it isn't that simple in an actual market. Not everything is as obviouse as it seems and a net 10k for example doesn't equal the same profit in every way
@sadcat520
@sadcat520 Ай бұрын
Not all money is equal. The dealership had to pay a fee to accept this specific form of payment
@AMaineiac
@AMaineiac Ай бұрын
@sadcat520 money is money. Otherwise, it would not be considered money.
@TheHolypoopstick
@TheHolypoopstick Жыл бұрын
What changed is the sales guy who knew you went to his boss afterwards and said, "Did you tell the owner that he has a legion of fans?" and the boss said "whoops".
@Vagitarian01
@Vagitarian01 Жыл бұрын
There's three options as I see it: - The salesman vouched and said "I'll take the risk on this" - The sales team realized he was about to go spend his money at a competitor. - The salesman said "millions of people are going to watch that video and we can either be the good dealership or the bad dealership in town."
@nicholasbutler2365
@nicholasbutler2365 3 ай бұрын
@@Vagitarian01or maybe Harley HQ waived those fees for the transaction and they were actually going to make a profit now.
@blurtblaxter2708
@blurtblaxter2708 Ай бұрын
@@Vagitarian01all of the above
@Vanlifecrisis
@Vanlifecrisis Жыл бұрын
They just didnt want to pay that fee, they wanted to bake it into the price of the bike aka make you pay the fee. Which they probably covertly do to everyone. Then they thought about the publicity and decided to write it off. I am actually kind of glad the cashiers at some stores questioned you about the cards though, because a lot of people get scammed and told to go buy bunches of gift cards, especially older people.
@snakecat586
@snakecat586 Жыл бұрын
I have a few to charge for my air conditioning job for credit card. Why would I take that fee? I’m already taxed on top of that. Because the government is greedy we all have to suffer
@aaronsnacks6128
@aaronsnacks6128 Жыл бұрын
i pick my medicine up at the same target he was buying the gift cards at lol. Rebuild Rescue is another big channel that is from where we live too.
@thedayzgod
@thedayzgod Жыл бұрын
nah its called content they wanted to make it seem like they couldn't do it to hook you in LMAO
@alpha13dylan
@alpha13dylan Жыл бұрын
They absolutely do that to everyone. I bought a brand new bike in 2020. 2 grand of the price was the shipping and handling of the bike. Even though I purchased the one at the dealership it was right in front of me. I was pissed.
@codyology
@codyology Жыл бұрын
Which is wild to think they about lost that deal over 700 bucks. Thats with the bike being 20k with 3.5% cards normally charge
@chaseychaseum5366
@chaseychaseum5366 Жыл бұрын
Honestly it's really refreshing to see stores, at least, attempting to counsel you while purchasing an unusual amount if gift cards. You wouldn't believe how much money scammers bilk people out of by convincing them to get gift cards to stay out of jail, keep their SSN safe, fix their computer, etc. It really is an epidemic.
@BikesandBeards
@BikesandBeards Жыл бұрын
thats a very interesting perspective. i did not consider that
@rock.doctor
@rock.doctor Жыл бұрын
I watch walmart do this once. An old lady was trying to buy apple gift cards and they talked her out of it plus called the police on her behalf.
@chrisgriffin7115
@chrisgriffin7115 Жыл бұрын
This is the IRS calling, you owe me 20k in harley gift cards to keep this warrant from being signed lol
@xathridtech727
@xathridtech727 Жыл бұрын
@@BikesandBeards I use to work for unidentified tech company (nda) and it was surprisingly common lucky for some they would try to call back and we would get it and it's like okay we don't need the giftcards okay this isn't something I can fix over the phone but you can go to any of these unidentified tech company authorized repair center or to unidentified tech company store
@stupidgamer4765
@stupidgamer4765 Жыл бұрын
I used to work for walmart back when covid started and around the peak of gift card scams, they hounded on the idea that if you were ringing up a customer for gift cards you better make sure that it's for a legit reason, and even capped out at like $500 in total for the cashier where any more would require a hire up, and if you were buying in bulk like 10+ cards, they'd just out right refuse to allow the transaction and suggest a digital purchase for them. I guess the main reason being the scams becoming more and more common. but It might also just be that if someone complains and wants a refund there's nothing the store can do as the card was auto-magically funded the moment the card is purchased (and the store directly sends that money to the card company) any kind of refund by the store would ultimately result in a hit for the store on a unsellable product that could've already been drained.
@burrbrewer4313
@burrbrewer4313 Жыл бұрын
When I worked in a dealership we had to worry about "washing money" it can happen when a person forges money then buys gift cards and spends them. The merchandise can wind up not being paid for properly. Receipts wouldn't prove anything in the instance. I bet there was even a conversation where the sales rep was told they would lose commission or even have to pay for the insurance deductible or bike.
@prestonnewcomb5991
@prestonnewcomb5991 2 ай бұрын
Exactly, that or other money laundering scams.
@takashi05mauder77
@takashi05mauder77 Жыл бұрын
I think it's because giftcards have no fees agreement, they wanted to charge you extra fees that they normally charge paying customers. They really tried calling you a scammer as they tried to scam you. I imagine they probably changed their mind after checking your sub count.
@sadcat520
@sadcat520 Ай бұрын
They didn't try to scam him. It's perfectly normal for a merchant to pass their fees on to the customer. If they didn't disclose that information, THEN it would be a scam
@1chaka
@1chaka Ай бұрын
@@sadcat520it says “no fees” and they decided they wanted to covertly charge him for their own fees. If it’s not a scam it’s shady business practice at best.
@rclmxshift
@rclmxshift Жыл бұрын
This story reminded me of the time my friends and I bought 17 dollars of gas with pennies. No gas stations wanted to take the pennies, so we put the gas in the tank first then we went inside to pay. Their faces were priceless when we put the bag of pennies on the counter. The clerk kept telling us that we will be short, but we were actually .50 more that we needed.
@christianterrill3503
@christianterrill3503 Жыл бұрын
You used to be able to just pump gas without paying or swiping a card?
@Clownin
@Clownin Жыл бұрын
@@christianterrill3503 Yes, still can in some places. This isn't really a thing anymore though.
@wherethehoochiesat4210
@wherethehoochiesat4210 Жыл бұрын
You guys pulled up with 1700 pennies and counted them? Yeah okay bro
@saltymoistywaterbeans5588
@saltymoistywaterbeans5588 Жыл бұрын
@@wherethehoochiesat4210 Actually 1750, supposedly
@CT-uz3bf
@CT-uz3bf Жыл бұрын
@@christianterrill3503Yea… even now you can do that. Many places are phasing it out though. You just have to hit a few buttons and the clerk will unlock the pump, then when you’re done you can go inside and pay.
@melmel2644
@melmel2644 Жыл бұрын
Dude, this was pretty amazing because it was the exact situation that I went through. I did this over a year ago. I spent more on gift cards than you did and purchased my brand new Harley. Unfortunately, it still didn’t cover the cost of my new Harley. The only reason I didn’t cover the entire cost was because I ran out of stores on the way to the dealership, to buy enough gift cards, to cover the whole amount. But like I said, I spent more money on gift cards than you did. I never got charged a fee or a percentage.and the entire amount went towards the purchase of my motorcycle. We had an assembly line, going to run through all the cards. The main reason I did this was to get free gas ⛽️ because the dollar amount that I spent on the gift cards, a % of that got me free gas (fuel perks). I got approximately $3,000 in free gas (if memory serves me correctly), and that was my incentive to do it.
@SamSamuylik
@SamSamuylik Жыл бұрын
Now this is some big brain maneuvers here
@FreshlySnipes
@FreshlySnipes Жыл бұрын
Interesting
@Bystronicman08
@Bystronicman08 Жыл бұрын
Sir, you are a god damn genius. I admire your ingenuity.
@scottleggejr
@scottleggejr Жыл бұрын
I get paid in gift cards and have done some nutty, high dollar purchases because the $ value of a gift card is less than the cost due to all of the scams and fees... I did a $10,000 fishing charter in $500 cards one time. Imagine doing the assembly line with a bunch of deck hands and a pissed off boat captain lol.
@ianweinberg5519
@ianweinberg5519 Жыл бұрын
This is awesome
@TheJjcczz
@TheJjcczz Жыл бұрын
I imagine the owner wanted time to investigate the situation on their own and denied the sale as a precaution until they could figure out what was really going on. Once you left they likely looked into the KZbin channel and talked to the manager and employee. After confirming you guys were legit and not scammers they gave the ok to call you guys back in
@TheNutshaq
@TheNutshaq Жыл бұрын
I used to work at big grocery store. They absolutely can do that much on gift cards. It just requires that you give them your social as well as your ID so they can fill out what is called a CTRF. They just need to report that such a large cash transaction took place, and they don’t even actually do it. The bookkeeper does it every morning. Source: was manager
@thanos879
@thanos879 2 ай бұрын
Shows that we aren’t as free as we think. You can’t even withdraw a large amount of your cash out the bank without a fight.
@TheNutshaq
@TheNutshaq 2 ай бұрын
@@thanos879 banks stopped carrying large quantities of cash due to the rise of bank robberies in the 90s. You can withdraw large sums of cash, you just need to call ahead and make an appointment so the bank can prepare and have that much on hand and fill out a form for tax purposes. It’s really not a big deal you just can’t do it out of the blue
@no-bark4112
@no-bark4112 2 ай бұрын
@thanos879 you are perfectly free to _not_ _use_ _a_ _bank_ though. I realize this is a strange concept to some folks, but you actually don't have to hand over all your money for someone else to hold onto.
@thanos879
@thanos879 2 ай бұрын
@@no-bark4112 I used to be that way until the world became increasingly digital. I used to use prepaid cards when I needed but it’s too inconvenient. For a second I thought your name was “no-bank4112” 😂
@chrisl3062
@chrisl3062 Жыл бұрын
Just want to acknowledge the amount of work and effort that must have gone into making this 22 minute video. Great job bikes and beards
@RRRIBEYE
@RRRIBEYE Жыл бұрын
Happy to be the 22nd Like on your comment for this 22 minute long video! 😁
@ViperBitenESP
@ViperBitenESP Жыл бұрын
fake video, pre planned so not even close to real
@teleporttc9905
@teleporttc9905 Жыл бұрын
@@ViperBitenESP I guess all those gift cards scanned at self checkout was fake too, maybe even a fake Target 🤔
@freebehindbars8654
@freebehindbars8654 Жыл бұрын
@@teleporttc9905 I think Viper is a fake account.
@mailman0244
@mailman0244 Жыл бұрын
@@craigfell6906 what are you talking about lol this video was amazing. Even if it was planned, a lot of hard work still went into it, and tbh I don't buy that it was planned. If the cards hadn't worked at that dealership, they already stated earlier in the video they'd just try a different dealership.
@unfortunately_fortunate2000
@unfortunately_fortunate2000 Жыл бұрын
I think they realized who you were and how unique of an advertising opportunity selling you a bike with gift cards was going to be as well as being nervous about someone claiming to have 20k in gift cards ready for a bike
@Voltomess
@Voltomess Жыл бұрын
And I think it's fake just to make a video for youtube. With 2 million subs anything is possible.
@willlienellson7451
@willlienellson7451 Жыл бұрын
"advertising opportunity". Did they say in the video which dealership it was? Because if not, it's not really an "opportunity". It's "Make less money on this and spend more time doing it or else I'll create a bunch of bad press for you".
@InDisskyS131
@InDisskyS131 Жыл бұрын
@@willlienellson7451 yes, they did
@martssss
@martssss Жыл бұрын
199%
@EvilSSP
@EvilSSP Жыл бұрын
On one hand it's weird and most people are aware of gift card scams these days, but on the other hand this guy is looking to pay in full the entire cost of the bike vs financing so I think it just tempted them too much.
@Obozo_Gaming
@Obozo_Gaming Жыл бұрын
This is one of those questions you don't really think to ask or think about, but good to know it's possible. I mean, I personally think it should have been possible either way if you have proof of purchase for the gift cards so they know it isn't a scam.
@garageworker
@garageworker Жыл бұрын
11:00 Don’t hate on a 14 y/o with common sense. The young man does have a point.
@JasmineJu
@JasmineJu Жыл бұрын
Depending on your jurisdiction, there are laws which force companies to accept gift cards. Here in Alberta, refusing to honor a gift card is a criminal offense and could land you two years in jail, and a 300,000 dollar fine.
@isaiahdaniels5643
@isaiahdaniels5643 Жыл бұрын
Wow! That's almost 15 Harley Davidsons!
@nwerd7584
@nwerd7584 Жыл бұрын
I dont think thats a law here in the US unless its a state thing. But the law we do have is you can not decline ANY legal tender. if someone comes in with 20k pennies you have to take them, or open yourself to suit and criminal liability. In fact so many companies got away with it without the government doing their job its the real reason why theyre dissolving pennies from use.
@rousrouslan4023
@rousrouslan4023 Жыл бұрын
I mean those 25$ card is bought for 25$ why wouldn't they accept it
@nwerd7584
@nwerd7584 Жыл бұрын
@@rousrouslan4023 this one is yeah, but every card is different. Ive seen ones that charge you fees for every charge out of your gift card value. Many are still drawn out of visa and mastercards systems.
@joshuazollinger5725
@joshuazollinger5725 Жыл бұрын
I’m from Alberta and didn’t know this. Cool fact my guy
@bjgaspar
@bjgaspar Жыл бұрын
Just imagine you're the salesman and you get your commission via giftcard
@strubbleler
@strubbleler Жыл бұрын
i hope they saved all the cards and hung them up on the wall as some kind of trophy :P
@brahtrumpwonbigly7309
@brahtrumpwonbigly7309 Жыл бұрын
@@strubbleler the salesman was prolly happy, but management seemed sour.
@cascadesouthernmodeltrains7547
@cascadesouthernmodeltrains7547 Жыл бұрын
Got my Christmas bonus one year in a $500 gift card to the dealership I worked at. I didn’t own a vehicle of that brand, and I did all my own service so it was a pretty useless gift. The owner was a cheapskate, even though we made him millions every year.
@luke8329
@luke8329 Жыл бұрын
@@cascadesouthernmodeltrains7547 funny stuff. I used to work at a massive manufacturer , turned over 300 million a year ,80 mill profit. they used to give us £30 turkey money and then it went to a small pie. Pretty sure they give them an extra lump of coal now.
@abnpthfdr2934
@abnpthfdr2934 Жыл бұрын
@@cascadesouthernmodeltrains7547 That's the shittiest thing to do to the employees!!! I thought you were going to say "a $500 gift card" like a Visa gift card that you can use anywhere; that's not the formal way to do it, but money is money, but a gift card for a car dealership??? That's insane!!! "The greed is strong with your boss..."
@danielhill1677
@danielhill1677 Жыл бұрын
As someone who has worked at a grocery store for years, this is one of the most common types of scams we deal with. So just seeing the title immediately sketched me out.
@Ruhann-Vanzyl
@Ruhann-Vanzyl 2 ай бұрын
1:54 That van gives off "ill give a harley Davidson gift card if you hop in the back with dan"
@todtalk3912
@todtalk3912 Жыл бұрын
I like how he didn't just submit to the fees. Excellent job Bro.
@chad8251
@chad8251 Жыл бұрын
It literally wasn’t a fee for him you dip spit it was a credit card transaction fee every business has to pay every time everybody swipes plastic
@maxieditsvideos
@maxieditsvideos Жыл бұрын
@@chad8251 and he didn't just submit to it. still an excellent job.
@chad8251
@chad8251 Жыл бұрын
@@maxieditsvideos it was never his to submit to he paid for it when he paid for the bike
@todtalk3912
@todtalk3912 Жыл бұрын
@@chad8251 just the same, every fee in business is negotiable.
@christophermeyers
@christophermeyers Жыл бұрын
We take these gift cards everyday at our dealership. Not sure what the confusion was but it's no different than if a customer wanted to pay with a Visa or Mastercard. Our own corporate Harley rep does this every time he buys a bike. It's annoying because of all of the swiping and entering but like the guy said, money is money.
@michaelburnham4293
@michaelburnham4293 Жыл бұрын
Yea its money and you should not waste it on the ugliest bike ever.
@McP1mpin
@McP1mpin 5 ай бұрын
You're telling me people regularly buy entire bikes with gift cards? Or are you just saying that someone will come in with a say $500 gift card and put it towards a bike?
@averyimel726
@averyimel726 10 ай бұрын
This is gold man😂😂when he said “cant u just use a credit card at Harley dealership?” “Probably” omg gold. My man wanted out of there
@Mickocarbomb
@Mickocarbomb Жыл бұрын
Im glad stores actually tried to stop you seriously, I work in retail and have seen our store just blatantly ignore situations where it's obvious a scam is being conducted on someone.
@briannmd1
@briannmd1 Жыл бұрын
How though? you have to buy the card with real money. I had to purchase about 5k worth of cards one time and had to choose the amount up to 250 on each card.. The kid cashier tried to say I can only buy 2k worth and I asked for the manager and he said there wasn't a limit. I think people just assume something without thinking. Where's the scam if it's being bought with legitimate money?
@BloodyWatersGR
@BloodyWatersGR Жыл бұрын
@@briannmd1 think @JacobReichertchannel is referring to the person BUYING the gift card(s) being scammed. A lot of retail locations see unweary or elderly folks being conned into buying gift cards, which they give the information of to the scammers, who either use them or sell them for money. It's part of most big retailers' customer service training now to ask questions about purchases of over $500 in gift cards to make sure that no one is being taken advantage of.
@draxthylocalrespectorofanime
@draxthylocalrespectorofanime Жыл бұрын
@@jyrone3943 the scammer sells the codes for bitcoin they don't use them at all
@fireflyslight8155
@fireflyslight8155 Жыл бұрын
@@briannmd1 I also work in retail. Whenever someone comes in to the store and asks to buy a large amount of gift cards, we are instructed specially on how to handle the situation. At the end of the day it is a judgement call on the cashier's side, but if we make the wrong choice our job *could* be on the line. Usually, I just try to bring it up in small talk while scanning the other items and let the person know that there are scams that can happen. We even have fliers to hand out. As long as they have a good reason and seem like they're alright, I usually let it go through. One person I remember wanted to buy like $1000 worth of gift cards for a company party, another had like 10 grand kids and wanted to give them each $200 visa gift cards for Christmas. I've never had anyone come to my register being scammed, but it's happened at least once or twice while I've been in the store, so I'm glad that places are looking out for their customers to some degree.
@minarchisttrucker2775
@minarchisttrucker2775 Жыл бұрын
I'm surprised they didn't get accused of money laundering lol. When I worked retail we were cautious of people buying bulk gift cards because people will buy gift cards with stolen credit cards
@MyDyerMaker
@MyDyerMaker Жыл бұрын
I'd guess the fees amounted to about $600. Maybe they figured they had enough room in the price to warrant paying the fees.
@lazygenie5616
@lazygenie5616 Жыл бұрын
Ya….. a good salesman always has a bit of room to knock down a price a bit. Plus the press from the video. They thought why not….
@oldtwinsna8347
@oldtwinsna8347 Жыл бұрын
The owner likely was reminded this was a 1+ mil subscriber channel of bikers and the negative coverage could literally put them into bankruptcy.
@willipad2277
@willipad2277 Жыл бұрын
Video basically flaunts his clout
@BugattiBoy01
@BugattiBoy01 Жыл бұрын
@@NotFromConcentrate why are you charged. Makes no sense
@orlandonarvaez1
@orlandonarvaez1 Жыл бұрын
Fees to use the same brand of gift card makes no sense. It's not like they are paying visa or Mastercard for the services. When someone buys a gift card it puts the money on that company to use at a later time. I don't get why he was trying to charge a fee. Maybe a tactic to have him use another method.
@Recknoknight
@Recknoknight Ай бұрын
@ 10:50 as someone who's worked in retail it is absolutely true and an absolutely outlier situations. $5k is the hard limit per transaction in regards to gift cards because gift cards are used for scamming n such. So typically, grocery stores aren't allowed to do transactions over $5k. But here's the weird part, stores CAN do more amounts, but they would need the store director to do the transaction.
@morlarav602
@morlarav602 Жыл бұрын
20:45 They checked out your KZbin channel, that's what changed them
@Booplesn00tgaming
@Booplesn00tgaming Жыл бұрын
I'm REALLY surprised buying that many gift cards at once didn't trigger an alert in Target's point of sale system and get you confronted by their loss prevention. Gift cards are a fairly common way to launder money. Edit: Never mind, that's EXACTLY what happened later in the video... 🤣
@magaisacult2023
@magaisacult2023 Жыл бұрын
Good point
@404-Error-Not-Found
@404-Error-Not-Found Жыл бұрын
Gift Cards are used in fraud.
@georgejefferson8718
@georgejefferson8718 Жыл бұрын
It only gets flagged if the cashier wants it too
@elliotthefennekin6506
@elliotthefennekin6506 Жыл бұрын
I don't really see what the problem would be as long as you are paying for the gift cards. For the store I worked at what would happen is that we would have to get a manager to put in the override key and they would ask if their purchase wasn't a result of being scammed
@Booplesn00tgaming
@Booplesn00tgaming Жыл бұрын
@@elliotthefennekin6506 Same where I worked, and then usually if it was a ridiculous amount like in the video, the manager would discreetly call us over to investigate.
@hazyhuckleberry
@hazyhuckleberry Жыл бұрын
I don’t know… it worked in the end, but I fully believe that it was because the owners looked up Bikes and Beards and chose your credibility over bad publicity. I have my doubts that this would go the same for someone without the same influence and/or credibility. Still was incredibly entertaining to watch! Keep the awesome coming!
@greg5613
@greg5613 Жыл бұрын
I ran a bank branch inside Walmart for over 6 years and fraud was extremely prevalent through gift cards so it was likely raising some red flags. Normally we ask the same questions about why the person isn't choosing alternative ways to purchase something. We just try to understand the logic behind the purpose and make sure someone isn't getting completely duped. Granted, most of the time it was an elderly person getting romanced scammed for their social security. We just did what we could to educate people and if they didn't listen at that point it's unfortunate but we did what we could. Concerning spending them at a Harley, I may do that after I heard youtube channel and did some research. From a unknown rando though, I would have so many red flags It would feel like a huge risk. I would just have so many 'why' questions. Also putting it on the Salesman and denying it because of the boss it silly. He should have just left him out of it decision wise.
@MotomediaMD
@MotomediaMD 10 ай бұрын
I thought I recognized the store and surrounding area, then I realized that you were at Chesapeake, which is where I took my rider safety course and also where I was headed when I blew the transmission out of my RZ350!
@joeb5183
@joeb5183 Жыл бұрын
Bottom line the dealership didn’t want to take the 3% hit for the merchant fee for every gift card scanned. Then realized it’s winter and they are sitting on stock that is most likely not going anytime soon.
@Dan-gp9hb
@Dan-gp9hb Жыл бұрын
Top that with the current economy
@smeegle
@smeegle Жыл бұрын
Those fees are for mastercard/visa/amex ect not gift cards that are internally registered to their system, who would the fee be going to?
@AndreJHoward
@AndreJHoward Жыл бұрын
No fee. Those aren't Visa/MC ...
@kruszinc.8555
@kruszinc.8555 Жыл бұрын
It's a visa debit so the vendor get hit with a $0.50-$1.50 charge per transaction
@AndreJHoward
@AndreJHoward Жыл бұрын
@@kruszinc.8555 I thought thosse particular HD cards were not Visa?
@ecrwarren
@ecrwarren Жыл бұрын
I love how the older guy was talking it down like you were some sort of scammer, but then when you got called back, he was nowhere to be seen. Either way, it was cool that you could do that. I figured they would stick to their guns and tell you to kick rocks.
@soldat2501
@soldat2501 Жыл бұрын
When I heard, “Why are you taping?” I knew this was going to go south. Taping? Really bro? The 90’s called and they want their vintage reference back. No one has taped anything in 10 years. At least not in the US. Then he started in with the fees. I love how Shawn turned it around after he tried to explain how the dealership would pass on its processing fee to the customer and says, “So it’s a fee then.” The old guy shut up after that and had no other option other than to start putting up bureaucratic roadblocks. I am am older guy, not as old as the manager but old enough to know you have to constantly educate yourself and be ahead of trends. I am willing to bet money that manager doesn’t even like the Pan America because it’s an ADV bike. I don’t know of course but I know several Harley guys at that age and they aren’t fans. The manager is nowhere to be seen when they come back. Not surprised at all.
@jarfullofmayonnaise
@jarfullofmayonnaise Жыл бұрын
I'm a retail employee. They were sketched out because gift card scams are extremely common. If someone is purchasing or paying with an excessive amount of gift cards it's a sign of money laundering and criminal activity. Depending on state we're even mandatory reporters meaning we have to alert the authorities.
@AgalmicAutomata
@AgalmicAutomata 3 ай бұрын
Most people have been a retail employee, it doesnt take one to know that it sounded like someone was getting scammed
@ActuallyAwesomeName
@ActuallyAwesomeName Жыл бұрын
I don't know if any of you use sponsor block on KZbin but I find it hilarious that when "filler" is skipped, the video jumps all the way to the end where the seller says yes and the video is over
@MischiefMakerTV
@MischiefMakerTV Жыл бұрын
It’s hilarious to think someone at the dealership thought ‘these guys could be here to scam us’ considering you were filming the entire process and would be posting the scam to KZbin 😂. Glad they came around and congrats on the new Harley! 😎🤘🏻
@dabasil
@dabasil Жыл бұрын
Still, people can say its recorded in YT and get scammed just from that..
@RsAndTechno
@RsAndTechno Жыл бұрын
Different generation brother
@Logai74
@Logai74 Жыл бұрын
I would not be surprised If there was a youtube channel where idiots went around scaming people in todays world…
@Wintercourse
@Wintercourse Жыл бұрын
@@dabasil Right? You know how many videos I see people doing stuff that is sketchy but because they are filming people just walk by like it doesn't matter? Imagine robbing a bank but having friends film you so when people see it happen just be like, "Lol it's a joke for video." I bet I could carry a body and shove it into a trunk while filming it and just be like, "It's for a video." and do it in public and people would let it happen. So yeah, this could easily be a con to do, use the camera to let people lower their guard...nothing has to get posted.
@crownviclx2000
@crownviclx2000 Жыл бұрын
They didn't know that at the beginning
@blankslate5981
@blankslate5981 Жыл бұрын
My skin was crawling during that first interaction when they denied the sale. The way the “boss man” shut the door behind him when he really didn’t have to close it at all. I’ve only ever been in situations like that a few times in my life and every time was the worst and longest minutes ever! Second hand embarrassment and empathy to the nth degree, so glad there was a happy ending.
@Vanlifecrisis
@Vanlifecrisis Жыл бұрын
They do as routine at every car dealership. The ole, let me talk to my manager bit.
@nick9602
@nick9602 Жыл бұрын
I don’t think it was that deep in any type of way at all. You gotta have some thin skin to conclude this from that small interaction😂
@sunhashin1019
@sunhashin1019 Жыл бұрын
It's common courtesy to shut the door. you don't want strangers listening in on your financial decisions.
@blankslate5981
@blankslate5981 Жыл бұрын
@@sunhashin1019 oh, no it’s definitely a common courtesy thing for sure, but with the context of what was happening and in that moment it probably felt like an intimidation tactic in an interrogation rather than a privacy thing.
@blankslate5981
@blankslate5981 Жыл бұрын
@@nick9602 you haven’t been in many of those situations where you feel like you’re getting grilled, or you have zero second hand embarrassment cause that was so awkward. Either way I am genuinely jealous🥲
@kremp1834
@kremp1834 Жыл бұрын
Worked at POS at best buy for a couple months. Yes people do actually buy insane amounts of gift cards. Had to tell almost all of them the limit that the store would allow is 2000$ worth.
@EdRo9
@EdRo9 Жыл бұрын
I don't know why people are hating the boss, he was clearly a older/experienced business man and this was probably the first time in his entire life he saw a guy walk in with a box filled to the brim with HD Gift Cards asking to buy an entire motorcycle with said gift cards. And on top of that the guy was probably off put by a camera guy filming the entire process. It was eyebrow raising for sure and if you owned a dealership you'd think twice before letting someone potentially screw you over with this whole gift card shenanigan especially because it's well known gift cards are associated with a lot of scam techniques. He was put on the spot and didn't feel comfortable winging the whole ordeal/transaction he was just uncomfortable. He also clearly called someone that told him it could be a scam so he was on edge, I think he did fine to be honest.
@dave4803
@dave4803 Жыл бұрын
I get the feeling if you didn't have a youtube channel they wouldn't have changed their mind. But a lot of scammers trick people into buying gift card, the stores probably thought you were a victim and the dealership probably thought you were a scammer trying to turn your ill-gotten goods into something you could sell for cash. The dealership probably thought if this vid gets out that we refused to accept our own gift cards then people will stop buying them.
@travismccloskey9733
@travismccloskey9733 Жыл бұрын
1.6 million subscribers pulls a lot of weight.
@dave4803
@dave4803 Жыл бұрын
@@travismccloskey9733 I can see it from both points of view, but the dealership would've tanked the sales of gift cards which would've knocked on the sales of their over priced merchandise. But he did have the receipts and it wouldn't have been hard to check them out. They'll probably update the terms now saying there's a limit on how many gift cards you can use at once or that they can't be used to buy the bikes.
@hecticphusion
@hecticphusion Жыл бұрын
The whole "scamming" thing makes ZERO sense in the context of this video. Scammers have people buy gift cards and then send them the gift card information as payment for fake services. In this video, they are purchasing gift cards so that they can make a legitimate purchase on their own.
@dave4803
@dave4803 Жыл бұрын
@@hecticphusion It does, I know he didn't but he could've scammed a whole state of old people to get that many gift cards and now wants to turn them into something he can sell for cash. Or could've bought them all cheap from a scammer call centre for half their true value. Again I know he didn't and he showed proof he bought them. But look at it from the other side. Why would anyone willingly get that many gift cards to buy a bike instead of buying it normal with money? But as he said I'm doing it for content and to see if it can be done.
@hecticphusion
@hecticphusion Жыл бұрын
@@dave4803 what else are you supposed to use the gift cards on? I was under the impression that most people buy motorcycles at Harley Davidson dealerships.
@steveslater2260
@steveslater2260 Жыл бұрын
I see a change coming to HD gift card T&Cs! To be fair, I don't think they anticipated someone would be determined enough to do this. Thanks for an awesome video, you've really upped your game recently. I'm still laughing at "sherf" 🤣
@joetroutt7425
@joetroutt7425 Жыл бұрын
It almost seems that this video was structured to show that they (HD) are aware of scammers trying this trick and will investigate before giving the green light to sell a bike solely on gift cards.
@NzRasengan
@NzRasengan Ай бұрын
6:45 gift cards aren't the only thing getting checked out at that register
@pranavzedits5619
@pranavzedits5619 Ай бұрын
😂😂
@enigmagraphic
@enigmagraphic Жыл бұрын
Target, its name is Target. The name of the store is Target. TARGET TARGET TARGET TARGET. 😂 Some men are so fragile.
@iprey4surf
@iprey4surf 5 ай бұрын
It's neat that you can go into any bathroom you want there.
@FilthyDankTV
@FilthyDankTV 3 ай бұрын
It was pretty clearly a joke
@SpanishArmadaProd
@SpanishArmadaProd Ай бұрын
no its not and you cant prove it
@rolandobravium1873
@rolandobravium1873 Жыл бұрын
Folks at B&B I found your channel by pure accident, I’m not even into bikes or have a beard but I’ve enjoyed every episode. Great presentation. Solid attitudes and personalities. Just great to see people being good people to one another
@tamminicholson5060
@tamminicholson5060 Жыл бұрын
"Im not even into bikes and I dont have a beard" 😅
@collinallen5356
@collinallen5356 Жыл бұрын
Same here lol some cool/unique videos :)
@gingie5246
@gingie5246 Жыл бұрын
The “fee” they were talking about it the swipe fee that card companies charge stores. It ranges from 2-8% and most companies openly tell you if you use a card that there will be an extra charge to offset the swipe charge. Most places only charge the fee if it’s over a couple hundred dollars because those transactions have a larger cost.
@Fivedeuce
@Fivedeuce Жыл бұрын
So If it was 20k how much do u think the fees would be
@occlusion6557
@occlusion6557 Жыл бұрын
@@Fivedeuce was like $200 when I bought a 11.500 bike
@EdenDaBooty
@EdenDaBooty Жыл бұрын
I thought merchant fees only applied to credit/debit card transactions. Not sure if they apply to gift cards.
@Ruffi0
@Ruffi0 Жыл бұрын
@@EdenDaBootydepends on the vendor
@michaelvazquez7533
@michaelvazquez7533 Жыл бұрын
So everyone they sell to is using cash. Right 😂😂. More like it was a separate processing fee built into the gift card itself which is why u can buy the card for free and your only paying what u loaded on the card.
@bradleymckay365
@bradleymckay365 Жыл бұрын
Here in Wisconsin you can buy whatever size you want to at Walgreens.
@MegurokoSylveon
@MegurokoSylveon Жыл бұрын
12:13 20:000$ for 1 Year of Food...! Meanwhile I'm Sitting here not even spending 500$ per year... Even if multiplied for a family that would "only" be 1000-2000$... Not surprised you spend that much if you can easily gamble another 20:000$ on a luxury purchase. Don't really have a point, that statement just caught me depressingly off guard. KZbin splurges are hard to watch.
@MegurokoSylveon
@MegurokoSylveon Жыл бұрын
Hey @Bikes_and_Beards I'm getting a bunch of fraudulent scam comments on this that claim to be you, just so you know.
@moto_story77
@moto_story77 Жыл бұрын
I don’t know why I loved this so much. It’s great that you successfully bought the bike but too bad the channel won’t be doing $20,000 in H-D gift card giveaways 😂
@termiterasin
@termiterasin Жыл бұрын
It's a deduction!
@todtalk3912
@todtalk3912 Жыл бұрын
@BAD IDEAS huh? Just an fyi, he meant sean was gonna give em away if this failed. Obviously he would of tried other HD dealers first. None the less, it worked so who cares.
@joecaljapan
@joecaljapan Жыл бұрын
This was a lot more interesting than I thought it was going to be. The possibility of failure at the end made it good. I was also thinking that if they failed, they could include some cards in random orders on their store. But I'm glad everything worked out!
@BikesandBeards
@BikesandBeards Жыл бұрын
we still have some extras
@NikoMoraKamu
@NikoMoraKamu Жыл бұрын
@@BikesandBeards pay all the services of that bike with gift cards during his life , make it the gift card bike
@Robert-gw4ck
@Robert-gw4ck Жыл бұрын
What's the thing called you shoot at? "The store you don't shop at" lol
@judosailor610
@judosailor610 Жыл бұрын
To be honest, it sounds to me like they would’ve done it (the first time) if they could have up charged to cover the fees they have to pay on their end. When you pointed out the policy that there’s no fee involved with them, they stopped the deal.
@Noadvantage246
@Noadvantage246 Жыл бұрын
I think so as well. They probably pay 15-20% in fees, when ppl are buying simple merch it doesn’t matter much but taking loss like that on a bike stings. I imagine the boss told the sales guy he wouldn’t make anything off the sale and that’s why he said “your call”.
@zoopercoolguy
@zoopercoolguy Жыл бұрын
I bet there's a federal law that the company can't charge a fee for using a gift card. The government made it illegal to have gift cards that expire, so they probably put in the bit about charging fees at the same time.
@user-mm9hv2oj8d
@user-mm9hv2oj8d Жыл бұрын
@@Noadvantage246 That fee structure is not true
@Lokithehoski
@Lokithehoski Жыл бұрын
The reason why they are so weird about gift cards is due to the policies stores now have concerning irs fraud and things like that. They were thinking you were being scammed. That's also why there's a limit on the amount you can purchase. It's to protect the retired elderly from being taken advantage of.
@WJWeber
@WJWeber Жыл бұрын
It’s not just that. It is very common for thieves to steal your credit card and buy gift cards.
@Brownie.-
@Brownie.- Жыл бұрын
Money laundering it’s easier to move gift cards then stacks of money.
@Spaghetti742
@Spaghetti742 Жыл бұрын
To mediate this reply section, what if all of them are true?
@benp3592
@benp3592 Жыл бұрын
Harley Davidson would be the most crazy scammer request though lol. Don't they have to resell the cards for a slight discount (depending on the popularity or usefulness) I imagine that the Harley city cards would be less valuable.
@Hipkinscrew1257
@Hipkinscrew1257 Жыл бұрын
my mom works at that exact harley and in the corner thats the mini fridge that she stole from when we first moved here
@OLDSCHOOLMIAMI
@OLDSCHOOLMIAMI 7 ай бұрын
What changed was the money left there store and they wanted it back 😂😂😂😂
@FilthyDankTV
@FilthyDankTV 3 ай бұрын
Lmao he's making sure not to be affiliated with target 😂
@1one3_Racing
@1one3_Racing Жыл бұрын
I remember when I worked retail, I used to HATE gift cards because of how they were structured on the register. The person who sold the gift card got 99% profit on the card. When the car was redeemed, it would actually show as a discount on the product, so it would come off the profit for that sale. So if you sold a gift card, your GP for the day would be insane (the aim was 12%), but when someone redeemed one, it killed your GP for the day.
@OnceShy_TwiceBitten
@OnceShy_TwiceBitten Жыл бұрын
They have to do it that way. At least at publicly traded companies, and because that is common practice, probably everywhere else too. It's because there are laws for publicly traded companies that determine when they can considered income vs liabilities etc on their balance sheet. There are very specific points in the transaction at which you can say you finally made profit on. When you take an order, like with gift card, you have not delivered the goods yet so the card, or the order is still a liability you owe. Only when you deliver it, ie they take the goods, from the store with the card can you then considered it profit. So they have to say, they sold this... and when it's redeemed they have to deduct it from their money. To balance the equation.
@SCARFACE69247
@SCARFACE69247 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like corporate gibberish!
@jkxss
@jkxss Жыл бұрын
@@SCARFACE69247 actually it's accounting 101
@bruh-db8by
@bruh-db8by Жыл бұрын
@@jkxss nah bro, accounting would be running numbers on tangible quantities. all that talk is what happens when the wrong people get the power to muddy simple processes, so yes, corporate gibberish and nonsense
@andrelitogatpo7834
@andrelitogatpo7834 Жыл бұрын
@@bruh-db8by credit and debit are simple accounts which do not always represent a tangible quantity 😂 it’s definitely accounting 101.
@MikeyritZ
@MikeyritZ Жыл бұрын
I’m fairly new to your channel and I gotta tell ya , I am a huge fan!! I absolutely love the show and Sean and Craig seem like great guys. God Bless you all have a great day ❤🙏
@BikesandBeards
@BikesandBeards Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@MikeyritZ
@MikeyritZ Жыл бұрын
Absolutely! Thank you for the reply! I also texted your phone number you guys gave out too the other day….I am down here in Delaware and I hope to get to meet you guys someday !
@bara7331
@bara7331 Жыл бұрын
@@MikeyritZ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
@imnotimportant
@imnotimportant 11 ай бұрын
Card service charges 6% on small amounts, 8% on the 500s plus a base fee for each card. The business decision was running all those cards was going to cost them roughly 7% so $1400 and after the salesman gets his commission there probably wouldnt be any money left for the owner. Then when they left the salesman spoke up and said the bad publicity is about to be shown to millions of people on KZbin and probably get back to HD eventually showing they would not honor the cards and wanted the customer to pay the fees, and the boss realized the small profit or loss even was worth taking a hit on.
@We_mess_around_love_country
@We_mess_around_love_country 4 ай бұрын
I live near where you are this is fire bro it’s cool
@TheShodown220
@TheShodown220 Жыл бұрын
To be fair, even if you couldn’t purchase a motorcycle with 20k in gift cards, you could easily spend that in the accessories department. Couple leather jackets, stage 1 and a 5k service should get you pretty close!😂
@mr5.0
@mr5.0 Жыл бұрын
Harley jackets for everyone! Then instantly broke cause they’re crazy high.
@RealWorldCarReviews
@RealWorldCarReviews Жыл бұрын
I think the dealership were just freaked out at first, then they probably realised the gift cards really can be used for buying a bike. I bet you were panicking about it though 😂
@davidtirlokhi4954
@davidtirlokhi4954 Жыл бұрын
Wait so i can use gift cards to buy a motorcycle lmao!
@fluffyfetlocks
@fluffyfetlocks Жыл бұрын
You'd be surprised. Yeah, people do buy that many gift cards sometimes. Sometimes it's for business gifts to employees. Other times it's an elderly person being scammed. At our store we're required to read out a scam warning before doing over $500 in gift cards.
@Derek9598
@Derek9598 Жыл бұрын
Its good to see people warning against the gift cards, gift cards are often heavily used in online scams. She was doing exactly what she was trained to do, good job on her :)
@moparhp340
@moparhp340 Жыл бұрын
They decided to avoid some hard PR for that dealership.. to take folks money for a card then turn them down when they try to use it and accuse them of a scam is pretty shady... you doing this was like a credibility audit for HD haha good work
@badboybullterriers4104
@badboybullterriers4104 Жыл бұрын
yep i bet some phonecalls were made and his youtube channel was looked at and they thought we cant look this bad to millions of bikers
@Soulsurviver22
@Soulsurviver22 Жыл бұрын
It was going to happen until they wanted to charge you fees for using the gift cards but once you showed them that there were no fees for using gift cards they got all up tight about it and turned you away ..
@aaronlandry3947
@aaronlandry3947 3 ай бұрын
While the cardholder agreement says that the individual merchants may decline the use of the card federal/state law can supersede that. I know I have heard of a few cases in various states where the courts have ruled that gift cards should be treated like cash and can't be denied so long as everyone meet the criteria listed in the agreement.
@Houseofmycology
@Houseofmycology 7 ай бұрын
By the time you get done their credit card machines going to be broken😂
@MyGraceFilledJourney
@MyGraceFilledJourney Жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite channels! And for the record I don’t ride or even really like motorcycles😂. You guys just make me laugh and I appreciate you sharing your faith.
@Thesaurus-Rex
@Thesaurus-Rex Жыл бұрын
That's awesome. You can always start small and see if you like it. I think most people with your outlook end up loving to ride. Good luck and God bless
@BikesandBeards
@BikesandBeards Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoy it!
@daledeickman6522
@daledeickman6522 Жыл бұрын
I bought my street glide from this dealer and everyone that works there is always trying their best to help everyone. Glad to see they haven’t changed a bit.
@KGLIer23
@KGLIer23 Жыл бұрын
Good guys there. This is our local place and never any issue. I want to walk in with 100 gift cards now lol
@samanthagriffinv2.08
@samanthagriffinv2.08 Ай бұрын
*pulls up to a dealer ship* Sells-men: How well you be paying today? This dude: Gift cards. Sells-men: What? This dude: You heard me. *pulls out a box full of gift cards*
@evanbalch222
@evanbalch222 8 ай бұрын
I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this, but a lot of the reluctance to both sell that amount in gift cards and also take that amount for a bike in gift cards is possibly due to corporate anti-money laundering policies. If you are a low level employee it is way easier to refuse a sale for such an unusual situation than to potentially put your neck out there especially if the IRS comes knocking on company doors.
@lothre
@lothre Жыл бұрын
Dan is such a class act. The quiet genius behind the scenes. Loyal and unwavering. I mean, sure, he is no Craig, but if I ever needed a wingman for my B-Team, I'd be lucky to have Dan!
@wags9777
@wags9777 Жыл бұрын
So there are no Harley gift cards to be found in your area for people that are trying to give Harley gift cards as a gift
@BikesandBeards
@BikesandBeards Жыл бұрын
yes
@adamdecker7963
@adamdecker7963 Ай бұрын
I was working at an HD dealership when I shared the gift card idea, they outright bought an ultra classic with HD gift cards bought from giant eagle. Ton of fuel perks and credit card kick backs, saved like $6500 😊 needless to say they were very happy with the outcome!!
@HappyBuddhaBoyd
@HappyBuddhaBoyd Жыл бұрын
Harley Davidson is a club for old people who know nothing about motorcycles, but love to COSPLAY as a biker.
@jakobskaaning7730
@jakobskaaning7730 Жыл бұрын
This had me laughing out loud multiple times. The whole ordeal was epic and scanning of the cards in the end was the icing on a totally messed up cake. But it was awesome and I’m sure HD will be updating their giftcard policy in the nearest future😂
@bilbojenkins5276
@bilbojenkins5276 Жыл бұрын
Hey Sean! Love your stuff man! Just a FYI - the stores act so concerned about selling that many gift cards because scammers use gift cards to rip people off. They'll call some old lady claiming they're from the IRS, or her computer has a virus, etc...and that she has to go to a store and buy $X thousands of dollars worth of Google Play cards, otherwise they're going to send the police. Some gift cards can get redeemed as cash through PayPal, etc., which the scammers use to get the money.
@BikesandBeards
@BikesandBeards Жыл бұрын
yeah but how does that involve what i was doing?
@miquelcristino
@miquelcristino Жыл бұрын
@@BikesandBeards Maybe they were scared you were getting scammed haha
@bilbojenkins5276
@bilbojenkins5276 Жыл бұрын
@@BikesandBeards Maybe they thought it was a new version of the scam? Just a guess.
@Tyracor
@Tyracor Жыл бұрын
@@BikesandBeards Seems like the shop does need to pay a fee to redeem the card, which would smaller they margin of the sell. But yeah, they should have to accept it in my opinion.
@brahtrumpwonbigly7309
@brahtrumpwonbigly7309 Жыл бұрын
@@BikesandBeards People just associate large gift card purchases with scams is all. There is no scam concerning Harley gift cards, it's just people being people.
@mikb277
@mikb277 2 ай бұрын
After he left, they said to the bosses… “you know how big his channel is???” And they called him back in. 💯
@masonbruce3062
@masonbruce3062 Жыл бұрын
Been in sales for a little bit and I’ve seen this plenty of times, seems like they declined the sale to try to force you to use a regular credit card or another regular payment, obviously if your that interested in buying they’re going to assume your not just gonna walk away like that so they turned you down at first to try to get you to not use them 🤷‍♀️ sales trick but this situation is obviously one in a million so idk 😂😭
@jasongrech5293
@jasongrech5293 Жыл бұрын
Long time watcher from Australia here, your humbleness is always great to witness even in a situation like that you still have praise for them guys it’s so good to see 🙏
@ziyaademeran7904
@ziyaademeran7904 Жыл бұрын
I don't know why the algorithm recommended this to me... But I'm not complaining. This video was dope.
@CLuTcH_MaChiiNe
@CLuTcH_MaChiiNe 27 күн бұрын
As someone who works in retail gift card fraud is a huge issue and a lot of people get scammed everyday
@darnassiannightsaber7835
@darnassiannightsaber7835 Жыл бұрын
I love how your friend said 'That's what happens when you don't come to see me once in a while.' He's probably the one who knew right away you were dead serious about this, so he proved it to them 🤣 Good stuff man, ride safe!
@1one3_Racing
@1one3_Racing Жыл бұрын
So basically there's a fee on the back end for the Harley Davidson dealership to pay on each gift card, and the dealers weren't willing to cop that fee on that amount.
@MattChance
@MattChance Жыл бұрын
But they would have if he’d bought a $25 hat from them. I’ve never heard of such an arbitrary thing.
@7vishal11
@7vishal11 Жыл бұрын
@@MattChance fees smaller on that so they don’t mind obv, but that’s on them
@loveispain..
@loveispain.. Жыл бұрын
You owe that men a drink. 45 min. For a transaction. A drink is earned where patience is given.
@znort5486
@znort5486 2 ай бұрын
Hey fun fact, I work at a Harley dealer here in Australia and the Pan American came out here with a 180hp tuned rev max engine instead of the 150hp in the domestic market.
@Gold63Beast
@Gold63Beast Жыл бұрын
I think I need a lawyer for all the stupid shenanigans I sometimes get into myself into😂
@BikesandBeards
@BikesandBeards Жыл бұрын
She has saved my butt many times
@philipgoldsby74
@philipgoldsby74 Жыл бұрын
@@BikesandBeards Can you pay her in gift cards?
@ChrisLoew
@ChrisLoew Жыл бұрын
I've held more than half a dozen jobs as cashier, every single one capped out gift card purchase around $200 and over $50 required manager. Scams and taking stolen money to wash the funds is common. At staples I had this happen every week, and majority of time it was foreign exchange college students. Wanted to buy couple thousand in amazon or big box retailers like best buy, easily flipped. One store had a policy no gift cards with cash purchase, yeah its that bad.
@offhandacoustic
@offhandacoustic Жыл бұрын
Its fascinating and scary that people still fall for these scams.
@michaelcaldwell3265
@michaelcaldwell3265 2 ай бұрын
Lol i wont show the company... company logo in the video when saying that 😂😂😂 Great video man!
@glizzy_goblin78
@glizzy_goblin78 4 ай бұрын
16:40 that would sound so bad out of context
@ryanblumenthal4993
@ryanblumenthal4993 Жыл бұрын
Love the videos, the restoration ones make me want to go try and fix up the old 1975 Harley dirt bike my grandpa and worked on when I was in my early teens. I still remember the feeling when I heard it running on its own the 1st time.
@UberMegustador
@UberMegustador Жыл бұрын
I love that you are able to drive it home straight after buying it. Where I live, you have to get the paperwork for the bike from both the seller and the car registry department that has all the specs of the bike... Then you have to go to the townhall of the county your residency is in to declare it to the IRS and with the paper you got there you have to get an appointment to register the vehicle and get your plates which can take a few weeks... THEN... you get to drive your bike....
@TwitcyTrain
@TwitcyTrain Жыл бұрын
Lol the cashier said , wouldn’t it be easier to just buy it with your credit card? No hesitation with a straight face he said probably. Haha
@mobiletransportvideo
@mobiletransportvideo 3 ай бұрын
20:43 yeah I wonder why! Maybe they thought “we just lost an 🤬🤬sale. Get him back here”
@josh26050
@josh26050 Жыл бұрын
I know what happened…they were thinking “lawsuit” or they would look bad if they didn’t do the sale so they changed their minds
@ScriciRockz
@ScriciRockz Жыл бұрын
i am sure, after this, they will have a mention, that you may not use gift cards for purchasing a motorcycle anymore...or a limit to the amount of cards! they will definitely do it 🤣🤣 love you guys, hope i get my hands on that m1motogear spray anytime soon....
@D0tanuki
@D0tanuki Жыл бұрын
Or they can make gift cards go up to $20,000. lol.
@spartanx169x
@spartanx169x Жыл бұрын
Thats exactly whats going to happen. The reality is, it would be a good way to buy a big ticket item without having to report anything to the FEDs. When a car is purchased with $10K Cash not a check but Cash, all dealerships have to report it.
@exothermal.sprocket
@exothermal.sprocket Жыл бұрын
@@spartanx169x Because the Feds are a privately run, zero-government-oversight, independent central banking cartel who sells paper currency notes to governments around the world, and charges interest for the use of every single piece. And they don't like people laundering their money around through goofy schemes...... only the approved high level politicians with extensive criminal backgrounds, involvement in billion dollar corporations, drug cartels, human trafficking, war mongers, Communists, heads of States, intelligencia.... only those people can launder their garbage currency around.
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