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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Debs. on 06 January 2011, 16:24:15
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.....went into town today to the motor factors to buy an oil filter for the 'pup. mobile', as one of my Christmas presents was 6 litres of 10-40; thankyou Santa :-*
The friendly owner of the factors has been checking his 'books' for 2010 and was telling me that (in general) his sales of oils and filters have dropped 75% in the last year and specifically cam-belts; sales of which fell by 80% (of those sold, nearly-all were bought by local garages)......so, routine servicing must`ve been one of the things that people have really cut back on in these strictured times.
It`s not all bad news though: for, sales of antifreeze, tow-ropes and screenwash were generally up 600% on 2009. :D
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When I worked for a Motor Factors back in the 70s (delivering to shops in N London mostly) there was no mark-up on oil at all and we shifted tons of it (literally). Strange situation but the oil companies appeared to have us over a barrel (pardon the pun). It was the heaviest item on the vans.
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When I worked for a Motor Factors back in the 70s (delivering to shops in N London mostly) there was no mark-up on oil at all and we shifted tons of it (literally). Strange situation but the oil companies appeared to have us over a barrel (pardon the pun). It was the heaviest item on the vans.
Agreed......As a teenager in the late seventies I worked briefly at Halfords . We would all get a boll**king from the manager if we did not sell a filter every time we sold 5 litres of Castrol GTX 20/50......We were always told that the oil was a"loss leader".....and any profit was made on the oil filter alone.... ;)
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When I worked for a Motor Factors back in the 70s (delivering to shops in N London mostly) there was no mark-up on oil at all and we shifted tons of it (literally). Strange situation but the oil companies appeared to have us over a barrel (pardon the pun). It was the heaviest item on the vans.
Agreed......As a teenager in the late seventies I worked briefly at Halfords . We would all get a boll**king from the manager if we did not sell a filter every time we sold 5 litres of Castrol GTX 20/50......We were always told that the oil was a"loss leader".....and any profit was made on the oil filter alone.... ;)
thats why trade price on filters is 50/60% less.