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Oh and because prices vary almost every week with tires I made myself an excel cheat sheet. All I need is the price of the tire at cost and then I can tell the customer what the final cost will be. I have found that telling someone what the price will be "out the door" is probably one of my best sales tools. I work with my father in law and brother in law and they have priced it per tire for years but now they like my method better. I think that it saves time and bs when the customer hears the final number. I'm not real sugary when it comes to my customers and thier vehicles. I usually put it them in a manner such as, this is the price and now you decide. If not then I'll roll it out and continue with whats in the parking lot.

We cover the price of the wieght and stem in the mark-up which is six bucks. We also charge a mount and balance of 7.50 per tire or 30 for the set. There is no way I am not going to charge that... I think that its acutally worth at least ten bucks a wheel but in my market that would be crazy. So we are basically selling our tires at cost and theres really nothing I can do about it. The good is that we don't stock any tires. I pull from six suppliers and the longest I have a set of tires is usually 2-3 days. I like it this way because I don't have a ton of money sitting on the floor. I really just don't have the room to stock a bunch of tires but my sales were in high teens using this method.

I've been in the military for ten years so I really can't apologize for the title if it offends you. I have already picked some good info from this site and props to the creator and the mods because its easy enough to get around in here. I was active duty Navy from 99-2005 and been in the reserves since. I started with UPS in 2005 and left in November 2009 to work for Target Distribution. Now that doesn't really have anything to do with an auto shop I know but I kinda married into it. My in-laws have been doing it for a long time and I got pulled into the start-up crunching numbers for them and guiding them through the process. So they told me to make an offer to handle the office and sales end of it and here we are.... Its a 2 bay garage on the corner of a fairly busy intersection. Its a little outdated but it will do. I have a good time dealing with the public and I look at challenges like "something to do". I can make my way around a garage but as far as being an automotive expert, I'm far from it but nobody really needs to know that LOL! Thanks for the site and the chance to network and grow with a great bunch of professionals

LOL! I could just see me telling my father-in-;aw and brother-in-law that they couldn't work on their cars.... but they know I'll push it out in the morning if it gets in my way

I promote House(bulk) synthetic because I make the most money off of it...