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Mitchell Re-Issues January NAGS Benchmark, Will Undergo Methodology Review

Oh thank you, lord and master NAGS! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Yes, review your methodology! In the future, instead of pulling prices from your nose, pull them from your butt! Thank you, lord and master NAGS! Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!!

Re: Mitchell Re-Issues January NAGS Benchmark, Will Undergo Methodology Review

We little people await your beneficence, oh great and holy Nags!! We are incapable of setting our own prices for our goods and services, so we beg you who are in league with the insurance industry and TPA's to tell us if we can glean a humble bit of bread money from your most sacredly concocted benchmarks. We rest assured that if your next benchmarks allow us to live, however, modestly, then surely the likes of Safelite will cast aside their average invoice price to the insurance companies and follow your wise teachings along with us little folks. Please do be good to us, Nags. Please.

Re: Mitchell Re-Issues January NAGS Benchmark, Will Undergo Methodology Review

Once upon a time, a company I worked for made a windshield that was OE to an assembly plant. None of their competitors made that windshield for any assembly plant. When my company told NAGS what their truckload price to auto glass wholesalers was, and the range those wholesalers were selling to retail installation shops, there was absolutely no company in the world that had yet tooled up to make that windshield for the aftermarket. Repeat-- no one on the face of the earth had yet made that particular windshield either OE or aftermarket when my company submitted pricing to NAGS or when NAGS next published their benchmarks. When my company saw the totally off the wall, absurd and ridiculous "benchmark" NAGS printed, a vice president called them and asked where the heck they had come up with something so stupid. NAGS replied that their method was "proprietary".

Listen to NAGS, people, they have only YOUR best interests at heart.

Re: Mitchell Re-Issues January NAGS Benchmark, Will Undergo Methodology Review

"Mitchell recognizes the importance of NAGS benchmark to the automobile glass industry"

What the announcement should have said is, "Mitchell realizes the industry is finally waking up to the absurdity of what we do and we are rightly fearful of becoming irrelevant as far as pricing is concerned."

Re: Mitchell Re-Issues January NAGS Benchmark, Will Undergo Methodology Review

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"Mitchell recognizes the importance of NAGS benchmark to the automobile glass industry"


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