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Originally Posted by masraum View Post
I used to work at a retail autoparts store. You can choose your parts to show whatever margin you want. We had parts with single digit margins and parts with mid triple digit margins. Hell, even starters or alternators or water pumps had very different margins per part number.
Used to use this Mom n Pop parts place back in the 80's.

Needed a throw out bearing for my Starion.

Guy looks it up and the thing was $75

So he cross checks it against a Montero, same part number, $25. Much better.
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