How General Motors Croaks a Small Business (And the story of outsourced GM buyers)

Vanity of sorts - Maybe a Rant | Today | JessDuntno

[jessduntno]

Final letter to General Motors

RE: Attempt to purchase our product

from our contract manufacturer

Dear Deepak, et. all,

Thank you for contacting us. We recently received your PO # 33333333. It references the quote # 444444 we have written and re-written for both you and ****** Associates, who purportedly represented you, over the past couple of months. Your most recent request (direct from your own buying group) is for Net 60 Terms and a price reduction from $9,945. to $8,700.

We have never quoted this price, and we are wondering how you got it? ####### Associates insisted we sell to them at this price, but we declined. Now we have found that you have taken this order from them and tried to buy directly from our manufacturer, eliminating them AND us, and trying to reduce the price?

As well, you have sent the order to our manufacturing location. I'm unsure how this error occurred, but please understand that from here out ##### Inc., our contract manufacturer, will direct you back to us.

I have personally spent the time with #######, the GM America engineer who originally requested the unit in August, as well as many GM representatives along the way on this sale. As your point of contact, sales should go through us. If you choose to have a third party purchase, you should also direct them to contact us directly. We do not offer any kind of discount for resellers, and GM would need to compensate a third party buyer directly, not to have them try to deduct their cost from us, as is the custom.

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[jessduntno]

Huh? You are either small or you deal with every manufacturer.”

Why is that? When you have a niche, your market can be a mile wide.

[american_ranger]

Ditto.

Scary how much ditto.

I now own a F-150 and a Mustang.

Ain’t never gonna own a gov’t motors POS again.