| right, the way i see it is, Mike assembles, and receives certain parts, and stocks up and sells them through his shop, but that means he's a 2nd party retailer, not the 1st party, so the costs of parts and such is taken down from his retail, to what he pays for them from A.R.E. MFG, who does them on a bigger scale, for the economy of scale to pay off handsomely, and it seems they do not make large profit on the parts, while Mike is making enough to keep himself in business as well as expand somewhat...it is possible that he and A.R.E. were allied from the beginning, since CCI was founded in 1987, coincindent with A.R.E. becoming the major machined part supplier...
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