I gave you real cases with real parts.

Your list means nothing, who made these parts, you say OEM, are you talking MB or Ford or who. There are about 20 OEMs and a billion wannabees (that claim to be OEM some companies have even taken the name OEM). A compressor for your car from MB will be rebuilt and without clutch. I haven't priced it recently, but for a year or more it cost $446. I would pay my dealer 28% less than that. The price I pay would be 20% over dealer net, which is what they pay if ordered overnight, which happens all the time. They get stocking discounts of maybe another ten % and maybe some volume kickbacks.

Now if they go with some shyster selling washed up used junk calling itself OEM and bought them for a little over 100 they might get 300% if they stuck them on cars in their service department, but they sure won't be selling that crap to me.

You need to be more specific because what you are saying is a bunch of crap and a lot of gullible people will have their fanatsies promoted by your misinformation.

"They are from an OEM FRANCHISE THAT SELLS TO DEALERS, not some 'fly by night' parts house" Do you understand what OEM means. Mercedes dealer don't buy from some OEM franchise they buy from MERCEDES-BENZ. If they don't they are real likely to have someone show u one day and tell them to get their cars from that OEM franchise

When I sell a MB compressor for 446 I make 123.78 on the deal. I don't know what group of crooks you are watching but real MB specialists and MB dealers are all using these numbers. The only difference is that some charge 10-20% more than list and some do quantity purchasing and buy at 10 over MB net.

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Steve Brotherton
Continental Imports
Gainesville FL
Bosch Master, ASE Master, L1
33 years MB technician