Filter made from gold

[Finklejag]

I just bought this filter at the dealer for my new Yamaha Xmax 300 scooter. $22.50. The parts guy sold it to me for $15.00 though. He priced matched Partszilla.

 

[Passport1]

Got a Mahle filter for my Suzuki scooter from Amazon for about $5 last year.

 

[wwillson]

Decades ago I worked at the John Deere dealership in the parts department. Every JD part had a code printed on the packaging that, when decoded properly, told you how much the dealership paid JD for the part. It wasn't hard, just a quick glance and you could tell. The dealer markup on parts was astonishing. 300% was pretty normal and small items like bolts, nuts, and screws could be 1000%. Expensive parts > $500 were usually marked up < 100%. There was no set markup, the parts manager just marked the price up to where he thought people would still buy them.

 

[Rand]

Decades ago I worked at the John Deere dealership in the parts department. The dealer markup on parts was astonishing.

sounds about right. I bleed green but man do they love their parts.