Re: its just robbery.

Posted by redforlife on June 02, 2023 at 21:49:01 from (174.213.214.44):

In Reply to: its just robbery. posted by rustred on June 02, 2023 at 18:06:51:

I don't know why, but people seem to get out of the habit of price checking things at the dealership all together. I'm guilty of it myself. Just don't even price check something from there at all, unless its a part that you can only get from through there.

But the truth is, some things are actually about the same price, and a few are cheaper. We don't make a tendency to price check, because in all, parts at the dealership do have a tendency to be higher.

I have ran into quality issues as well. Maybe not on oil filters. But someplace else might have a cheaper price on something, but it will be of lesser quality as well. I ussually run into this on wear items.

But back to the oil filter thing. About the only thing that makes sense to me on this, would be the retail prices are based off of volume of sales. Not to many people would walk into a local bumper to bumper and ask for a Massey 444 oil filter. Therefore, their volume of sales on this item would be much lower, than perhaps back at the dealership. So the dealership moves more volume of these things. And that equates to cheaper for them from thier supplier, because those sales are likelwise based off of volume as well. A pallet full is cheaper than 4 or 5 individuals when it comes to wholesale. The dealership is likely supplied by a place that feeds multitudes of dealerships. A place that buys pallet fulls, and then breaks it down. Bumper to bumper would have a similar system. But maybe they don't move enough of them to buy a pallet full, even at thier hub.

I'd price check back at the dealerships more than I do, but my savings would be lost most of the time on driving the extra miles further to go to the dealership to get it. Car quest is 10 miles one way, but closest dealerships are 40 miles one way.

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