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Rich,
Wish I could say I have never heard of your story before. Many times when employees become partners and it now becomes their profit margin, the discounts stop.
Again, regular customers are the ones that will normally get discounts, but that is up to each dealership.
300.00 mounted, sorry, that price is below our dealer cost. Funny how a mail order company can sell a tire below dealer cost. Makes you go HMMM. How did they buy it that cheap?
Retail on the Pilot power 191rear, 155 front or 346 for the pair and 25 each to mount and balance rims only. Winter specials will be run this year for the service department, and it will include tires.
Even if I did 10 % off for (hypothetical at this point) NESR members, you would be looking at 312 and 45.00 for mounting. or 357.00 plus the governors cut. No sales tax is also a good point. But remember my previous points, who do you call when you have an issue.
Degs makes some good points. Especially about cleaning your wheels prior to bringing them to the dealer. We clean the wheels prior to mounting, for exactly the reason Derek states, with 2 oz of grit, grime and chain lube, how good is the balance.
Also, some dealers have taken advantage of the double digit growth in the industry. They have become less consumer friendly. Profit margins have been reduced primarily due to the cost of doing business. Insurance up (when do they ever lose money?), gas up, wages up, training up, chemicals, uniforms, rags, hazardous waste disposal, lights, rent, storage.
Our labor rate still only 65.00. Compare to some other local dealers that are over 78.00 an hour.
BTW. Checked with Columbia Suzuki for Rich. Bought the tires there 20.00 mount and balance, bought them somewhere else, 40.00. This seems to be the norm.
Parkway Cycle: 40.00 no matter where the tire was purchased, does send some mail order tires packing if they are no good. 82.00 labor rate
Greater Boston Motorsports: 40.00 per off the bike if not bought there. 78.50 labor rate
Bettencourts: 25.00 off the bike, bought there or not. Seems like my pricing is pretty good. Glad to know it. And i'll repeat 65.00 labor rate. 3 fully certified Honda Mechanics, 4 fully certified Suzuki mechanics, 1 District service (previous) manager American Suzuki Motor Corp, to go please.
As for the pricing on tires, all the other dealers quoted the same numbers I did for Pilot Powers in the 180/120 combo.
Would giving a 10% discount to NESR members change the profits in my service department, not sure, will you guys buy tires in winter?? Thats when I need the business, I have more than I can shake a stick at right now. But always looking to do the right thing, and I think we are.
Gotta go, My day off today. Time to go riding.
E
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