Interestingly enough my local bike store is pretty much the opposite for me.
I bought a new/last year’s model for $400-450 off MSRP. I paid them $90 for a 3 year service plan (Bring it in whenever I want for 100 mile checkups, 10% off everything.) and so far they’ve had it up on the rack twice and I’ve spent another $300.
They make me laugh a lot when they told me they had someone in that bought a bike on a nameless online discount store and it was a nameless bike they spent $900 on that was “Comparable to Specialized or Canondale”. You know where this is going right?
So $90 to put it together, $150 more to get parts that fit/worked and another $100 in labor and that $900 bike became $1,240 with no guarantee because it had been altered from the kit that came in the box.... that didn’t work.
Oh and my last year’s brand name bike that was $1,500 was $1,040.
So, how did that discount work out for you?