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Christos, Apparently some would have you believe you should be grateful to bend over, grab your ankles and take it dry from a very large shaft and thank the owner while he does you. And....who are you to expect to be kissed afterwards? HAR! You are right....it is a rip-off. Example: They buy an item for $5 and mark it up to $7 last year. They expected to make $2 profit...okay, fair enough. But it doesn't sell. They check what the REPLACEMENT cost is THIS year and it is $8 wholesale. So what do they do? Scratch the $7 price tag off and glue on a $10 sticker. Suddenly their REAL mark up on the inventory on hand went from 40% to 100%! It makes no damned difference what the inventory replacement will cost. Let the next item be sold for $10 if the retailer pays $8 for it. But, it is unfair and I think unethical, to keep jacking the price up on old inventory, simply because the new replacement inventory price has gone up. There used to be a MF dealer here (MF really stands for Massey-Ferguson) who was the world's worst for this practice. You'd go in there and ask for something and the retard nephew behind the desk who toudin't twalk pwain would rummage around in the back and return with a part in a yellowed and tattered-dogeared package, promptly flip open the latest price sheet and demand a King's ransom for something that had obviously been there for 13 years. THAT is precisely why they are no longer in business. People...like me...got sick of that and went elsewhere. In the end, I guess they took those vintage parts home and boiled them for supper. At least, I hope they had to eat them! The other dealer...the surviving dealership...is ran by a man who will go find your part, blow the dust off it and say....the damned thing has been here 20 years...it's says $16 on the box...take it and get the hell out of here! We're both happy...he finally unloaded it and I wasn't ripped off. THAT is the reason everybody likes him, why he has been there going on 50 years and is more than comfortably well off.
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