ROCK AUTO

[marko65]

JUST GOT BEAT BY ROCK AUTO. TRIED TO SELL A PART FOR 10% OVER. I GUESS IT WAS STILL MORE EXPENSIVE THAN ROCK AUTO.
WITH SHIPPING ROCK AUTO WAS STILL CHEAPER THAN DEALER COST. MY COST 176.82 ROCK AUTO PRICE 172.78 SHIPPING WAS EXTRA . 172.78 FINAL PRICE.

DOES GM KNOW THAT US DEALERS ARE BEING PERCEIVED AS RIPOFFS .

THEY DONT CARE.

THERE ANSWER IS GET THIS: WE ARE A" FOR PROFIT COMPANY"

I GUESS THEY DONT LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE.

OR ARE THEY.

ARE THEY TRYING TO KILL THE GM DEALER?

LOOKS LIKE IT.

[CMayne]

"ARE THEY TRYING TO KILL THE GM DEALER?

LOOKS LIKE IT."
2nd page, 2nd post down, you have the answer to that question.
If you think it's BS then keep your eyes open and your knickers up tight.

[brparts]

GM has never cared about the dealer body. this is a post i did several years ago.----GM does not want the small dealers doing wholesale, they want only large one's. this is a post i did in 2009, you can agree or not. "The amazing thing to me is how people here have blinders on and are shocked at what is happening or has happened in the industry, you can't tell me NONE saw any of this coming? """ back in 1982 at a cadillac dealer advisory board that i serverd on, i brought up the fact that it looked like GM was trying to get rid of the small dealers . when they got rid of wholesale comp, i think around 1979 or 80 they told us we would make more money because we would sell more because they were going to reduce the price. with that kind of thinking we as parts mrg's knew then that the next 10 or 15 yrs GM was going to be in the dumpster, it did take a little longer but it did happen. most of the PM that were in that meeting left GM and went to other car lines, most went to imports, some out of the auto business. the the big wiggs in there ivory towers are now paying the price for the dumb decisions they made back in the 80's and early 90.

[MSInventory]

Very true brparts. I am a former GM wholesaler from a large metro dealer. 22 years in wholesale with GM. I left that world in 2008. Best career move I could've ever made. Moved over to Toyota in management. The writing was on the wall, all one had to do was read it. Sad.

[MR GOODWRENCH]

Just read this in the December issue of Automotive News' Fixed Ops Journal:

"...sales of factory replacement parts are highly profitable: In 2015, General Motors told investors that its aftersales business had profit margins of 30 to 40 percent."

I'll be the first to say that I would never deny any company the opportunity to make a profit in the course of business, but as our margins get squeezed and the competition runs rings around our business model, one has to ask when the OEMs will decide to either put some skin in the game or continue to relinquish more and more market share.