I've had local dealers tell me mcgeorge and eb prices are "below wholesale". I think in this case there are many different "wholesales". The wholesale we care about is the wholesale price from Toyota NA or Toyota Japan (or whatever the legal master entity is that actually provides parts to the dealers). Mcgeorge, EB, and a few other online dealers have almost identical pricing which I believe is above the "real" wholesale from Toyota, by a slim margin.Yeah, and I think that $249 is wholesale. I think @suprarx7nut has more intel on the partsouq/dealer pricing situation, he may be able to explain for us
The "wholesale" price of your local dealer is, in my best guess, whatever the dealership owner sets as their min profit level. I think the parts counter personnel is blind to the actual cost of parts. The "wholesale" they talk about is often well above the internet dealers selling price - a value obviously above their cost. That makes the local dealers "wholesale" somewhat of a joke when it's higher than another dealers normal selling price.
The internet dealers have created a common reference point that exposes either vastly different cost within the Toyota parts market, or more likely the vast difference in attempted profit margins by small middlemen dealers.
Partsouq is a bit unique because it's a completely different region, likely with wildly different pricing. It's common for large corporations to have vastly different internal cost structure for different world areas. My own with is very much like that - even with internal costs for the same exact item, without relation to any export costs.
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