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Originally Posted by Steve68
If I was a vendor and a guy placed a order with me, say Fikse, for 5K worth of wheels, I would have a phone number or email and I let them know some kind of progress, and I understand that not everyone can spend all day on the computer, Time is Money,
and I don't see the sponser on here anymore and no it's not the usual one,
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The problem is if you sell the parts too cheap just to land the sale and do this over and over all day long. You will never make enough money to be able to stay on top of your orders you have already taken. The vendor needs to make sure the orders get ordered from the MFG, filled by the MFG, drop shipped from the MFG, and arrive at the customer house near the estimated time quoted by the MFG. If the MFG forces his vendors to sell his parts at retail all he is doing is making sure his vendor has no excuses to sell and service the original manufacturers products properly. The only exceptions are product lines that have a much wider margin then 20-25%. But this industry has a pretty low mark up standard.
There are 3 pillars of business
Price
Service
Quality - In this case the Quality is set by the Manufacturer. So you really only have 2 options after that.
Pick 2. You cannot have all 3. Most people care about price first, and wonder why the service is not there after the sale. Can you imagine how hard it would be to find an employee at Walmart that knew anything about any of Walmart's products. Impossible. But the price is cheap.