What do you all think is a reasonable markup for a large international companies dealer to be charging for parts?
I think 10-20% myself. That's about where most business's are.
I asked the price on a filter assembly today from our dealer and he told me I think 108.00. I gave him the part number to look up too. I found it on a bigger dealers website that also had the price listed except that big dealer had the price listed as 31.00. I called to verify that also and it was not a misprint.
I told my dealer how much cheaper it was at the other dealer and he said he couldn't understand how.
So still thinking there must be a misprint or something I called two more dealers. Both were within 5 dollars of the cheap one I called. No misprint I guess.
My dealer here also told me 56 dollars for the air cleaner on my tractor. Just the filter. It's 26.00 at the big dealer.
Have any of you run into this kind of junk locally before? I'm doing all my shopping online from now on.
I think 10-20% myself. That's about where most business's are.
I asked the price on a filter assembly today from our dealer and he told me I think 108.00. I gave him the part number to look up too. I found it on a bigger dealers website that also had the price listed except that big dealer had the price listed as 31.00. I called to verify that also and it was not a misprint.
I told my dealer how much cheaper it was at the other dealer and he said he couldn't understand how.
So still thinking there must be a misprint or something I called two more dealers. Both were within 5 dollars of the cheap one I called. No misprint I guess.
My dealer here also told me 56 dollars for the air cleaner on my tractor. Just the filter. It's 26.00 at the big dealer.
Have any of you run into this kind of junk locally before? I'm doing all my shopping online from now on.