So, All.
I sent a little email to Red Line today and got a call back from Art of Red Line within 60 minutes, and we spoke about a bunch of things, including working a nice offering for the Ram Forum Family on discounts and possibly a deeper group discount on a big first order.
"Conrad,
Great talking with you. Always glad to meet a new Mopar fanatic! Let me see what I can do on a program for the forums. I’ll be back in touch. Feel free to email or call if you have questions or comments!
Art"
Art said there may be an option for us to purchase directly from Red Line with nice discounts, but their biggest bottleneck is shipping. He said that shipping out of California is ridiculously expensive, but doable.
How do you all feel we could work on shipping product to the Ram Forum members if we purchase directly from Red Line in Cali?
The other option he said is that they have a very large distributor in a different state that makes extremely large purchases directly from RL on a monthly basis and ships all over USA/Canada, and elsewhere in the world, and would be on board for discounts and fair shipping for the Ram Forum Members. Apparently, this distributor also carries pretty much all their SKU's, plus other items as well, so getting what we want shouldn't be an issue, and all with discounts for Forum Members.
Bottom line is that he's going to look at several options and table them all so we can all decide how it best serves our needs to move forward with next steps.
I hope you all don't mind that I went ahead and reached out to Red Line, but after me suggesting a group buy plan for discounts earlier today and seeing the responses that it's really not something Red Line does directly, well.... challenge accepted to see if I could net some results with Red Line directly.
I will say that I was quite impressed that I received a call from one of their Senior Sales Managers in Cali within 60 minutes of me emailing them on their customer service portal on their website. His attitude and attentiveness to what we/I was asking for in terms of deeper discounts for bigger volumes was hitting home to him.
He also happens to be a huge MOPAR fanatic, knows all about the tick and cam issues, and runs RL HP 5W30 and RP oil filters in all his and his families vehicles, including transmissions and other fluids.
He also works with Mike from Arrington frequently and together they sponsor some big events together. Pretty cool stuff.
Lastly, he was quite impressed with the various threads on Synthetic Oil, Blackstone UOA, Hemi Tick, and other related threads on our forum. He volunteered that, too. So, it tells me that "they" are hearing us (and trolling...lol)
Anyhoo..... I'll post up Art's email once he puts some things together for us all to look at and consider.
Looking forward to the opportunity for us all being able to stock pile our favorite lubricants for much better pricing points.