Posted by Pops1532 on February 03, 2013 at 22:15:17 from (68.58.114.55):
In Reply to: Independent mechs. posted by Icuby on February 03, 2013 at 09:14:52:
I don't have a shop or work on other people's stuff, but when I was young I used to turn wrenches on friend's cars and I always had a project car or race car.
In the late 70's- early 80's NAPA gave me a small discount. The parts guy at the Ford dealer sold me parts at 75% off list! I bought allot of parts. If I recognized other customers as shop owners I'd step aside and let them go ahead of me in line. I scored major points with the guys at the counter for that. Sometimes they would give me small parts.
One time Ford didn't have what I needed so he called NAPA. He told them he was sending me over and would appreciate if they gave me his discount which turned out to be 55% off list. The thing with NAPA was I'd get a big discount one time and the next time hardly any discount. I doubt that anyone ever paid list price there.
I'm told that Ford dealers no longer offer those big discounts.
With the overhead involved I doubt any legitimate shop could survive without marking parts up.
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