Direct orders from Mopar coming (clarified)

Posted on October 29th, 2009 • by David Zatz

Beginning next month, consumers may log on to the Mopar eStore at www.mopar.com and purchase any of the more than 100,000 parts and accessories available for a variety of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Plymouth vehicles. Mopar will ship parts anywhere in the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii.

Saw the blurb regarding MOPAR direct shipping parts to the customer,

we hadn’t heard about it so we did some digging. Looks like it will be

similar to MOPAR’S Dealer 2 Dealer referral system. D2D, as we call it

is used by MOPAR to; One fill orders of Back Ordered parts by purchasing

them from Dealers that have signed up a paid for the D2D service. It is

also a good way to utilize obsolete inventory that otherwise might have

been thrown away and written off. From what we found out so far is;

Customer looks up and orders part from MOPAR website, MOPAR in turn

finds a dealer with stock of that given part number. The Dealer then

sells the part to MOPAR and ships it to the customer, MOPAR also pays

for freight too. With the D2D program MOPAR reimburses the dealer for

the cost of the part, if the part number is obsolete or discontinued, if

the part is on Back Order, I.E. MOPAR is out of stock they will

reimburse the supplying dealership 110%, or cost + 10% which is

generally what Dealers in a given geographic area will sell to one another.

One of our readers wrote: “It looks similar to MOPAR’S Dealer 2 Dealer referral system. D2D, as we call it is used by MOPAR to fill orders of backordered parts by purchasing them from dealers that have paid for the D2D service. It is also a good way to utilize obsolete inventory that otherwise might have been thrown away and written off.

“The system will work like this: The customer looks up and orders part from MOPAR website, MOPAR in turn finds a dealer with stock of that given part number. The dealer then sells the part to MOPAR and ships it to the customer, MOPAR pays for freight too. With the D2D program MOPAR reimburses the dealer for the cost of the part, if the part number is obsolete or discontinued, if the part is on backorder, (MOPAR is out of stock) they will reimburse the supplying dealership 110%, or cost + 10% which is generally what dealers in a given geographic area will sell to one another.”