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Subject:Re: VW obscene parts pricing
From:Chris Mills
Date:Thu, 5 Sep 2002 17:01:39 -0500

>Someone once told me parts places have three prices. The clerk
>determines which he/she can get away with. Is this true?
>Tom Hubbard

What the market will bear - not necessarily true with professionals like
car dealers.

There is wholesale, retail, and gouge-your-tail. That is cheapest to most
expensive.

Chris M. <"Busbodger" of "TEAM SLOWPOKE">
Cookeville, Tennessee

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'78 VW Westfalia (67 HP -> that is...67 Hamster Power)
'65 Beetle - Type IV powered
'99 CR-V AWD station wagon
'81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle
2.5 Corvair engines for my Trans-vair Conversion