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 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.