This my friend is not the dealer or Scags fault, it’s inflation ! Blame is with the Feds.
It is called inflation which is designed to make sure those who have assets are always in front of those trying to acquire them .
There there is reduced turnover but fixed costs so the retailers will try to get a higher margin in order to compensate for lower volumes and right now mowers are in short supply
What people always fail to understand about a free market economy is that scarceity will push prices up
Then there are supply chain problems , parts that have been obtained from China almost for free now have to be sourced locally at a fair & reasonable price , so the final product will be more expensive .
Iron ore & Aust cokeing coal have also been at record prices for most of the year , again pushing prices up.
Because of all of the EV's & battery powered everything the refined copper price is 4 times what it was last year and is expected to do the same next year .
Trucking is stretched to the limits with long delays so the transport costs will also have risen on everything
