You would be surprised... I often am. In fact, I think every Mudder around the world should get to know their local Toyota dealership(s) parts counter if they live in proximity of one. One a handful of occasions we've been contacted by dealer parts departments asking if we want buy what they consider obsolete parts, gold to us, soon to be in a dumpster to them. I wish it happened more often as I know there are 100x more parts out there than we've found. For example, my local dealer knows I love all things Genuine Toyota hardware, we bought 5-10/each of hundreds and hundreds of numbers just so we can catalog them in our hardware database (length, diameter, thread, color, head size, etc) for use in kits, assemblies, etc. Anyways, they will have a bunch of hardware kicking the dealer that is either not worth the effort of returning to TMNA and/or perhaps the parts depots won't taken returns on some items? Don't know but they know to send it to me and I don't complain if the EPC shows it as a fender bolt for a Rav4
@cruiserdan and @Beno will have faaaaaaar more insight on how/what/why dealers can or can't do returns or what factors go into the decision to toss a part in the trash rather than keeping it in their inventory. Long story short, there are NOS parts often sitting on dusty shelfs and dealers and they don't care to post them on eBay, Mud, etc and they may just end up in a trash can if not saved.
