Outrageous overbill by Kanter Automotive

I have been in the Wholesale Building Materials Business for almost 26 years...When I drop ship an order<Take the order and do nothing but get that Purchase order and do billing> I get from 10% to 40% as a mark up..I do nothing but send Mfg. my order..I never ever touch it..That is a standard mark up...No wonder why it costs so damn much to fix a car....Hows does Kanter make more than the rebuilder by doing only the order placing ???...Buyer should of done more homework..I will agree on that but, Kanters mark up was way too high....Saying a Breakfast costing $1 sells for $5 that busniess did it all the work and has large overhead..IT is stupid to compare the two..Apples to Oranges...Kanter was only the waiter taking the order then had some one else order the eggs and toast and had someone else cook it give to customer, clean the table and dishes and than charged full price ..If that was the case it would be a $25 Breakfast...Damn nice work if you can get it....Other than ship it out what was Kanters overhead.?..A hours work ..Yes they need to make a profit but not at RIP OFF Rates...:banghead: .Fair is Fair and at those profit margins it is not..Rick 70RR


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SGBARRACUDA said

Try and explain or justify all you want. That amount of mark up IMO and I speak only for myself, is plain outragous. Every business man is in business to make money, I do it also. Just what did the customer recieve for the extra $100.00 charge if the entire job was $146.44? I have owned an auto parts store C&R discount auto parts and a franchise of Don Garlits speed shop. And I can state that I wasn't able to make that sort of profit.
Well one thing possitive did come from this experience. I know where and where not to spend my money.

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