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Re: Hosed again Posted by Andrew [Email] ![]() ![]() In Reply to: Hosed again by Saab Nashua North's parts dept., Garret, Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:11:18 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Car Dealers Rely on Parts and Service to meet their Fixed Operating costs.. with Luck and a "good" brand they can make it entirely on this.
Every part entering the Parts Dept gets a 100% markup, as an Industry Standard.
Sales profits are purely "gravy" in a well balanced Store, the ideal. not always achieved tho :-) Also if one has a "troublesome Brand.. warranttee repairs are covered by the factory.. But.. at only a fraction of the retail rate.. so it's possible to have a Full/Busy service department doing Warranttee work.. making NO profit...Saab fell into this problem category (or at least it did), Sister sold her Saab Franchise a few years back for exactly that reason.
And Please stop Moaning about "Not Building Anything Anymore".. When America is exporting virtually every Mfg job it used to have to China..as fast as Humanely possible.
Stop buying anything that Sez "Made In China" if yer genuinely concerned. price will be higher and that pretty well sez it all.
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