Cancelled order?
I guess,the question would be if they still have a parts department shutting down the website should have nothing to do with an order already placed. I think what they are doing is increasing the prices that are given on the website and increasing them to what every other dearler is charging. I have been in retail for 40 years and there is only one way to stay in business is to make a profit on what you sell. If you try to beat your competition by lower- ing your profit,it will only work if you do twice as much business. First selling BMW parts at a lower price than the competition just isn't the way to do it. First of all customers,like myself and all members of all groups in the country,who own older classic cars that represent an extremly small fraction of the market can not support the volume needed. Secondly the customers who own newer BMWs are not usually qualified to repair their cars and in most cases neither do they want to. How many of us would want,or are capable of working on a 5 year old BMW that was $60 to $80 thousand dollars in our own garage. Not only do we not have the proper tools but also special equipment is needed to diagnose the problem.
I'm sure you are getting bored with this so I will quit now and hope I made sense of it all.
Koopman
