Nopi Smryna No More!!

[Vteckidd]

Manufacturers are not stupid. If Dave at Skunk has 5 shops in every state as a RESELLER/DEALER of his product, then that's LESS ads that he has to run in HT, SCC, HCI and all your other favorite publications. It's a SMARTER way of doing business for the manufacturer bro. It's smarter b/c the average guy is gonna call MSP before calling Skunk for a product. That gives Skunk more time to work on their race cars and not be on the phone w/ Joe Blow, explain the difference in Pro 1, 2, and 3, hear about the guys car, take the information and ship out the product for a lousy 20%. It's cheaper to have 10 dealers per state than to do demographics for all of those locations and put a marketing plan in place for every different demographic. Why not let MSP deal w/ those questions/idiots and then still move the product?

while this sounds good on paper an in thoery, its simply not true. Skunk2 is fully capable of selling their own products an they WANT TO. they wil lMAKE MORE MONEY SELLING A CAMSHAFT AT $749 RETAIL PRICE than selling it to MSP for $549 (making numbers up).

They have a call center an a tech line setup. They do wholesale because it expands their business, your right, to another part of the country. you HAVE to do it, but they dont WANT to do it, trust me.

and the Skunk2 Race team is a seperate funded entitiy that has nothing to do with GROUP A parts sales.

[SOHC MONSTER]

while this sounds good on paper an in thoery, its simply not true. Skunk2 is fully capable of selling their own products an they WANT TO. they wil lMAKE MORE MONEY SELLING A CAMSHAFT AT $749 RETAIL PRICE than selling it to MSP for $549 (making numbers up).

They have a call center an a tech line setup. They do wholesale because it expands their business, your right, to another part of the country. you HAVE to do it, but they dont WANT to do it, trust me.

and the Skunk2 Race team is a seperate funded entitiy that has nothing to do with GROUP A parts sales.

HAHA!! When I was @ the Keystone show in Newark NJ last year, I spoke with the reps from AEM, Skunk 2 and Weapon R. The rep from skunk 2 offered to give me wholesale pricing not evening knowing I wasn't even a dealer. Its nice to get a hookup but I talked to him for maybe a total of 5 min and he throws that kind of pricing at me? WTF! Kinda scary b/c who else is getting that and stabbing you in the back?

Maybe it was because I was a vendor? Who knows.