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Alright, here is the deal, its getting harder to find good deals on parts for the contour, I know of a couple of salvage yards around here that I am willing to go once a week and pick up a shopping bag of parts for people that might need something, its understandable that some people have busy schedules they dont have time to run over to a parts yard and get something that they have been needing for a while.
Basically, I am a poor college student, and I want to provide this parts service, along with a small service charge based upon how big the part is that I have to pull. (ex, alternator = $30 service charge Window switch = $10 service charge etc etc). There would be NO markup on the parts, whatever I pay at the yard will be documented and you will reimburse me in payment, along with shipping cost. Paypal is preferred. But check also will be fine.
If there is profound interest in this I will make a few runs to junk yards by request. I can pull pretty much anything, with the exception of motors and transmissions. I would like to not pull body parts to ship, but will upon special request.
Would anybody be interested in such a service or should I just scrap the idea? I am doing this to help everybody out, and in the process I am making some extra cash for college.
EDIT: I just thought of this... To protect myself from anybody asking me for a part, then scamming me out of any sort of payment/disappearing on me, I will ask for a $10 deposit for insurance that you will pay for the part, if I never hear from you then I keep your $10 and return the part (a couple of my junkyards allow returns) or resell it to someone else, otherwise, if I do hear from you again I will subtract the $10 deposit from the price of labor to pull the part and the shipping cost, that way you will technically have paid $10 for the part to begin with, and I know one of my sources doesn't charge very much at all. I picked up a headlight core support for $22 from them, a bumper core support for $35.
Alright, here is the deal, its getting harder to find good deals on parts for the contour, I know of a couple of salvage yards around here that I am willing to go once a week and pick up a shopping bag of parts for people that might need something, its understandable that some people have busy schedules they dont have time to run over to a parts yard and get something that they have been needing for a while.
Basically, I am a poor college student, and I want to provide this parts service, along with a small service charge based upon how big the part is that I have to pull. (ex, alternator = $30 service charge Window switch = $10 service charge etc etc). There would be NO markup on the parts, whatever I pay at the yard will be documented and you will reimburse me in payment, along with shipping cost. Paypal is preferred. But check also will be fine.
If there is profound interest in this I will make a few runs to junk yards by request. I can pull pretty much anything, with the exception of motors and transmissions. I would like to not pull body parts to ship, but will upon special request.
Would anybody be interested in such a service or should I just scrap the idea? I am doing this to help everybody out, and in the process I am making some extra cash for college.
EDIT: I just thought of this... To protect myself from anybody asking me for a part, then scamming me out of any sort of payment/disappearing on me, I will ask for a $10 deposit for insurance that you will pay for the part, if I never hear from you then I keep your $10 and return the part (a couple of my junkyards allow returns) or resell it to someone else, otherwise, if I do hear from you again I will subtract the $10 deposit from the price of labor to pull the part and the shipping cost, that way you will technically have paid $10 for the part to begin with, and I know one of my sources doesn't charge very much at all. I picked up a headlight core support for $22 from them, a bumper core support for $35.
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