Mercury buying used 305 long blocks

[Buttanic]

Why is Mercury offering its dealers $500 and paying shipping cost for used 305 vortec long blocks they send to Mercury? I saw this in a Mercury dealer publication.

 

[Don S]

Re: Mercury buying used 305 long blocks

Why? Because they want to rebuild them. Obviously you didn't read all the fine print that goes along with that offer did you?

 

[Buttanic]

Re: Mercury buying used 305 long blocks

Why? Because they want to rebuild them. Obviously you didn't read all the fine print that goes along with that offer did you?

It is quite obvious to me that there wasn't any fine print and I knew they wanted them to rebuild. I guess I should have asked if there was any special reason they were looking for those particular engines.
Thanks for the sarcasm.

 

[Don S]

Re: Mercury buying used 305 long blocks

No thanks needed for the sarcasm, even tho it wasn't meant as sarcasm.
Merc now has a reman facility and would like to get rebuildable blocks from their dealers for rebuilding.

http://www.mercuryremanufacturing.com/

The thing is, you didn't see or was privy to all the details.
You have to be a Merc dealer, if you send the block and it fails inspection, then you get nothing, not even the shipping. Besides, they don't send you a check, they credit your account.