Showing posts with label parts warehouse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parts warehouse. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

How Much Do You Love GM?


At Rightnowautoparts.com we are an authorized ACDelco parts wholesale warehouse distributor. What that means is that we buy GM parts directly from the GM parts warehouses and stock them in our regional auto parts warehouses. The line between which GM parts are designated ACDelco parts and which GM parts that can only be sold directly to the GM dealerships changes monthly, but the percentages stay around 30% ACDelco parts to 70% GM parts.

The reason we have the contract with GM ACDelco is to make sure the faster moving ACDelco parts are closer to the GM dealerships and mechanics shops that are working on a customers car "today". If your car is up on a rack and needs tune up parts, it is quicker to get them on our ACDelco parts delivery trucks locally than it is to order them from the GM parts warehouse. Since ACDelco parts are the fastest moving/selling items, it just makes sense to try to stock them in a parts warehouse in the same local region.

Since a high percentage of our sales do involve ACDelco parts, we love GM. Our paychecks are highly reflective of how many of their GM parts we can move each day. Heck, I probably own 15 different ACDelco Parts baseball caps, and wear them at least weekly if not daily. But as much as I love GM, I do not believe I would have a Chevy Bow Tie logo tattooed to the back of my bald head. I guess that is just me. I am not a fan of tattoos in general, and really don't think I would ever allow myself to be permanently "branded" like that. GM parts are great... GM tattoos, not so much.

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P.S. Do you like that double meaning on "branded" I used there... pretty slick, huh?

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Why can't I order over the phone?

At rightnowautoparts.com we are basically adding a new way to sell our parts by creating this web page. In reality, we are a group of warehouses that supply parts to businesses who install them for their customers. As such, we do not have any retail outlets or even the ability for customers to pay with cash or credit cards. We could add those things, but that would add costs that would then need to be rolled into our prices. With the web page we have a fully integrated process that keeps all of our customers credit data secure. On our end all we can see is the last four digits from the card, and of course the customers name and shipping address. All transactions are directly between the customer and our credit card provider, RBS Lynk. We want to make sure that we never have access to the actual card number so that no one could take advantage of our customers. The vast majority of credit card fraud comes from locations where the number is physically present (restaurants, gas stations, U.S. Mail, etc.). This may seem a bare bones approach but we have found that our customers greatly appreciate the bare bones prices it results in. Thanks for doing business with us, Tell your friends!!