Is Anderson Honda insane?

[cjsmith]

Anderson Honda's web page claims to sell a new 2006 Civic Hybrid for $22,700. (MSRP, anyway.)

Check out their used inventory while you're there. Used 2005 Civic Hybrids with thirty thousand miles on them are mostly going for...
wait for it...
$22,988.

What's wrong with this picture?

(And no, not all of those used ones have the coveted yellow stickers.)

Comments

[allanh.livejournal.com]

Randy sez: "Used cars are somewhat like houses; they sell for whatever the market will bear. There's a shortage of used Civic Hybrids, so the price is around the cost of a new one. If you CALL Anderson, there's a good chance they'll take your money and tell you that they'll call you in 2 to 4 months when your name comes up on the waiting list."

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

What waiting list? Anderson has bunches of these on the lot. PILES of them.

A Craigslist search shows 22 2005 used Civic hybrids (well, one of them is a car loan and one of them seems to be a coupe) and with the exception of Anderson's, all of them are at least below the 2006 MSRP.

I really wonder what is up.

[allanh.livejournal.com]

"Perhaps the new ones aren't as well equipped as the old ones ... or the new ones are all weird colors."

Or perhaps Anderson is just mentally ill.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Dunno. The new ones have thirty thousand fewer miles on them. I think I'll go for mentally ill!