The deal is this, OE is after the BIG customer who is used to seeing a high price on a piece of equipment, not MVers like us who know the trucks, the CORP. customers like power line companies ect, see a high price and think that's not bad, that is what we are used to paying for a turn key piece of equipment, these buyers will buy a truck site unseen to fill there needs, thay don't really know where to look like we do, and if it tares up, thay fix it, just a cost of doing business. PAINT hids a lot of sins, you could have a CRAP truck, cheap paint it, and a real nice A1 truck with crap paint , the CRAP truck will sell first every time to the UNIMFORMED.
OE does NOT care about MVers, we ars just a pest, nor is there parts prices aimed at us but at the above customers who are used to paying high prices for parts.
By the way, OE advertises here on SS, both by banner and in the classifieds.