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Yowzaaah
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| Re: Its not a "scam" Chuck. You do realize that GM is not stupid don't you? What you were participating in is the "laundering" of artificial "sales" for the division you bought from. If GM had shipped its parts from one plant to another, even if different divisions, the pricing involved and sales amount would be suspect as these are not arms length transactions.
Insert your company, and bingo, the division selling to you gets a legitimate, unquestionable "sale" and the division buying the inflated priced goods from you is able to claim the full purchase price of the parts as a "cost" associated with manufacture of the finished product. Everybody wins...except the shareholders....who have inflated artificial sales in the 10-Qs and the consumer who pays more for a car than they had to because some of the component parts were artificially high.
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Combat Chuck
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Erie, PA
1 edit | Re: Its not a "scam" I don't believe that was what was happening in this case as this was a small ticket item, under a dollar each, there were only 100 or so (some sort of cheap screwdriver like tool, with a tip that looked like it was designed to break off, almost like a small shim) and it only happened once or twice in the 6 months I worked there. We purchased other stuff for them from other companies (nothing not related to what we sold; usually parts for older equipment that they had previously purchased from other competitors) so it's not like our sole purpose was to sell them back their merchandise. My suspicion, based on the way we worked their orders and how specific GM was in general about how you could ship stuff to them, was that it was a pain in the butt for their maintenance department to open purchase orders and it was easier for them to just buy most of their stuff from us in massive orders because most of what they needed was from us anyway.
From my end it was a pain in the butt to deal with them, so much stuff I ended getting returned because the PO# wasn't written with a fine tip black sharpie in characters exactly 1.3 +/- 0.001 inch tall, and I did not include 4 copies of the packing slip in the following colours (peach, periwinkle, lt. blue and orange) printed on 19 lb. stock in an approved shipping container with an edge crush strength of at least 30psi but no more than 35 psi... and on and on and on.
But I guess I could be partly responsible for inflating Delphi's sales by ohhh say $40.
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