atikovi

There quite a few I've found that sell parts 30% to 35% off MSRP such as https://www.gmpartsdirect.com or https://www.tascaparts.com but when you add shipping, the savings mostly disappear for large parts. The bumper cover I need with a $303 list price is under $200 at these places. Even with my discount at a local dealer, the best I can get it for is $235. How can I find a Chevy dealer that has online parts that is near me (Washington DC area)? For VW and Honda parts I found a dealer a half hour away. Now I need a Chevy dealer.

Bob Paris

The online price of a part, before shipping, is artificially low since they make a profit on the shipping. In other words, they will not have any interest in selling you the part for the online price to be picked-up since they are losing out on the profit included in the shipping amount. Kind of like a $250 MSRP part being discounted to $100 but the shipping fee is $125 over the actual cost to ship. Good try but it will not happen.

atikovi

You are wrong on that. I have bought VW parts from https://www.pohankavwparts.com/?gcli...xoC5QAQAvD_BwE and picked them up in person. Such as this transmission part https://www.pohankavwparts.com/oem-p...-0cg325025bz08 for $745 that my regular VW dealers wanted over $900 for. Have to drive 25 minutes extra each way to pickup, but on more expensive parts, worth it.

buckmeister2

Bob P is going to be correct on that quite often, though. Many places have online special pricing. Have you tried rockauto.com? They don't have every GM part, but I have been surprised at how much they do have, and, their shipping is not outrageous.

atikovi

Well, that's not my experience at that VW dealer I linked to. Need a bumper cover so shipping IS outrageous.

buckmeister2

Well, since you needed to restate your original statement, and CAPITALIZE that shipping is outrageous, good luck.

atikovi

I don't understand your comment. I assumed that stating I'm looking for local dealers implied I wanted to pick up the parts, not have them shipped.

buckmeister2

I can't help you.

Sox-Fan

Most of them don't have the parts in stock anyway, they're drop shipped from a warehouse. So even if they have a local dealer has an online presence they likely don't have the part physically there.

edit - the chance of finding a local dealer with an expensive part like a front bumper hanging around in stock is probably low.

atikovi

My regular dealer doesn't have it in stock either but can get it in a few days from the regional warehouse. Not a problem. It took almost a month to get that VW part from Germany I linked to. Nobody in the country had it.

rjacobs

235 seems pretty cheap for a bumper cover picked up...

somebody is paying shipping on that... shipping isnt really free, ever...

And shipping on a bumper cover is usually pretty high due to its high cube count, not because its weight.

FAUEE

Agreed, that feels like a heck of a price for a bumper cover you can get in your hands.

Is this 230 picked up price cheaper than the price of it online plus shipping?

I get wanting to save money, but i think youve mis calculated the bottom dollar price here...

Sox-Fan

Sales tax if you buy it locally should also be a consideration.

atikovi

Probably should have mentioned it's not a Corvette bumper. $230 is from my regular local Chevy dealer picked up. The online sites have it for as low as $195 but the nearest one I found is 300 miles away. I have a resale cert. so sales tax not an issue.

JABCAT

This is not true. I order from www.chevynationparts.net which is a Chevy dealer about 25 minutes from me & pick up my parts all the time. In fact, that's is how I purchased the B92 carbon fiber hood for $2400 because they would only sell it at the discounted price if it was picked up. The price does not change if I select pick up.

HOXXOH

I don't know about you, but I won't drive 600 miles to save $35. I have 4 Chevy dealers within 40 miles that have online parts sites. None will honor that price for self pick up. One even charges a flat fee to pick up anything. The closest Chevy dealer is only 4 miles away and doesn't have an online site, but when asked if they'll match one of the other dealer's price, they either do or only add such a small amount that it's not worth my time to go someplace else. Although any GM dealer may have the same part in stock, they don't always have the same price.

The three basic tenets of all business are price, quality, and delivery. The customer only gets to choose two, so pick the two that benefit you the most.

atikovi

I wouldn't either which is why I asked if there is a way to find these dealers in my area through some directory I can't find or with some search terms I'm not using. I did see Criswell Chevrolet nearby but their web prices are not much lower than a regular dealer but I guess I could ask them if they will match prices. For anyone in northern NJ I found https://www.gmpartsxperts.com/ which has the lowest prices of anyplace I saw and they clearly offer free local pick up.

HOXXOH

If your primary requirement is price, go to oemcats.com and plug in the part number. It'l return prices from all over the country with the locations. However, the individual locations may have changed their prices more recently that the search engine has been updated. Even so, the general order will remain close to the same. It looks to me that you'd be better off paying the $35 premium locally rather than getting a bulky part shipped and having possible shipping damage and that you'd have to deal with long distance.

atikovi

I'm looking for a local dealer, so shipping isn't needed. That's the whole point of this thread. And it's not for one part. I spend $500 to $1000 a month on parts. That oem site only goes up to 2012 models, not very useful.