There are companies out there that offer dealers pennies on the dollar for their old inventory of parts. so dealers will unload items that they have in inventory that have little or no sales history in a year. Old parts are becoming an expensive burden to car dealers and to the warehouses that supply them, so they do not hold on to them like they used to. It becomes cheaper to write off these parts than to inventory them. There are times when we just plain scrap new parts when they become discontinued by the manufacturer. Another problem is some of the vendors who makes the parts for the car manufactures go under, and there is no one who will pick up the part, so it becomes unobtainable. I do not see it getting better in the future of parts, as new cars become more complex, and those parts fail 8-10 years down the road, and many are so unique, they may never be picked up by aftermarket because of the costs to reproduce it.
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