MY PRICE LINK

[oakleyc2]

Here is what I have found out through a little searching. OE connect actually owns the trade mark from mypricelink. They were awarded it in may of this year. There will be around 7000-9000 part numbers included and it will only be what they call collision parts. To get a list price you will have to go through the my price link tab in OE or possibly the website. I have heard a couple times OCT 1st will be the start.

Now the interesting part..... everything that you sell wholesale to a body shop with go through collision link. The body shops estimate software will submit the entire quote to collision link. Then collision link/mypricelink will look at age, location, aftermarket availability, etc and price to come up with a list price. From my understanding will beat aftermarket list and then the parts that have a patent on them will be more in line with a normal list price or jacked up. All of this is supposed to happen in seconds. A couple articles I have read quote someone from GM stating that the process will require no extra steps from the body shop but will require a little more work from the dealer.

What i don't know
What the allowed mark up will be on parts that are matched with aftermarket pricing? I have a feeling it will be like bump the competition.
Will we still have bump funds?
How Much work will be involved from the dealer?
If GM is able to match the aftermarket and pretty much double their share in the collision market can they keep up with the demand?

Like I said all of this is just from searching around nothing official

[JMShocker2010]

Is this something we HAVE to use?

[SirRon]

What i don't know
What the allowed mark up will be on parts that are matched with aftermarket pricing? I have a feeling it will be like bump the competition.

They will graciously give us 15%.

Will we still have bump funds?

No, they gave us 15%

How Much work will be involved from the dealer?

Honestly, probably just a couple extra minutes on a typical body order.

If GM is able to match the aftermarket and pretty much double their share in the collision market can they keep up with the demand?

They can't keep up with brake pads, what makes you think they can with fascias...etc

This is just my personal feelings. I have NO info to back it up other than GM's past policies.

[Zep33]

This is just my personal feelings. I have NO info to back it up other than GM's past failures.

FTFY

[gully]

Just in case you missed this in the 100 emails you get a day. Seamless? Sure it will. I can't see GM lowering dealer cost, so all I see is less profit to dealers and body shops. My profit will shrink with the lower list price. The Body shop's profit will shrink because of a lesser discount from me. List will be a flying target to create some sort of discount structure to my accounts. Seamless? I must be looking at this all wrong because the pilot tests are fine with it, according to Kris Mayer's quotes.

Global Connect - GCUS-9-1026

[X476]

The pilot dealers are either company owned stores or dealers that are in dutch with GM and will follow along with whatever GM tells them to say.

[partsman103]

If there is not a published "retail" price, We will do what we've been doing for the past several years and markup parts @ cost x 1.87% at a minimum for retail/Service customers. Wholesale, we work from cost anyway and sell at cost x 15%.

[camaroman]

Any pilot dealers care to give us their opinion of MPL so far?

[bentwrench54]

curious to know more about this as well, especially since i've only heard that it involved collision parts.

[TimK]

curious to know more about this as well, especially since i've only heard that it involved collision parts.

I don't think collision parts means what you think it means.