Revolution Parts

Revolution Parts

Postby Kaju65 » Tue Mar 26, 2019 7:29 pm

Anyone have any experience with Revolution Parts for helping to sell parts online?
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Re: Revolution Parts

Postby ScottF » Tue May 07, 2019 8:01 pm

Sorry for delayed response.

We used them for about a year. The problem is the fact that selling online prohibits you from making significant profit per transaction. You need to sell at razor thin margins (for the sake of being competitive) so volume is the key to success. To get the volume to move enough parts to make the cost ,blood sweat and tears worth it I came to the conclusion I would need to have an entire division of the parts dept dedicated specifically to Revolution parts. The ad spend and extra resources that would encompass is way more than we were willing to invest. There is a way to make money but it requires a huge buy in. With such small profit margins there is no room for error of any kind. Such an error leads to a loss most of the time. The cost of the program seems reasonable at first but it was obvious pretty quickly its just pay to play like any other online business. We ended up bumping up adspend and would see results but the extra outlays never translated to healthy profits. In the end without putting in a lot more money it was never going to be a worthwhile adventure.

Hope it helps.
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