Retail vs wholesale

Richard SCF STL · January 15, 2015

What do you think the gap is between retail and wholesale automotive window tinting? In my area it seems to be about $50.

Bham · January 16, 2015

:hmmm what are you considering "wholesale" automotive window tinting?

wickedtint · January 18, 2015

Hey Richard, I give some of my dealers $50 off. The lower volume ones pay full boat.

Thirtyfive · January 18, 2015

Man, the gap here is worse. My average for a car is around the 350 mark, for my mid range film.

You have dealers here gettin cars done by motor one for $120, and three months of work done for free just to get that work.....

wickedtint · January 18, 2015

Wow, that's crazy. If dealers don't want to pay what I ask they can go elsewhere! There are people giving away jobs here as well....quality isn't there though.

Bham · January 18, 2015

Ok. I see which way you were going with this.

From an installers and business owners stand point, aren't we all retail, on the tint side of it?? Unless you are a huge shop with a bunch of bays and a large employee list? Anyway,,, Yes. My dealerships get a discount. And it's around the fifty dollar range(depending on the job). But the problem is THEY are wholesale and I am retail. Why should they get a discount to begin with, except for the fact they are repeat customers. I know they charge their customer almost double what I charge them. It's not fair to the customer(who is usually a Regular Joe).

But all my repeat customers get a discount. Sorry for the rant. :twocents

shwusyrtnts · January 18, 2015

About 100 bucks a car here.

Thirtyfive · January 19, 2015

I do find it bizarre some people get whole retail for dealer work though, I mean honestly, for a high amount of repeat work they are entitled to a separate price. I give my local mechanics trade price because their simply in the trade. I wouldn't do it for peanuts, but I would kick a stink if my wholesale manny gave me full retail price.

Richard SCF STL · January 19, 2015

Sorry should have been more clear. I was asking about Retail customer vs. dealerships. Thanks for the feedback.

Richard

Bham · January 19, 2015

There are not many "in-house" tinters at the dealerships around here. And the dealerships won't drive very far to get it done. I discount my dealerships(against my better judgment as stated earlier), like I said, about $50 per full car.

As far as the retail customer around here, if they go to a dealership and buy a car and have it tinted through the dealership.........I know for a fact they pay DOUBLE. example: if I charge the regular retail customer $200 for a 4 door car, if they come to my shop. Now if they buy from the dealership and the dealershio brings it to me, the dealership would only pay $150 for that car and. The dealership charges the customer $400 on their end. It's on the customer if they agree to this :crazy but not fair