Maybe I helped them to get them in stock after six months as I stop ordering Briggs parts for restock the first of June when my Briggs distributor started constantly complaining of being over worked along with very delays in getting me the parts. They were still complaining in November newsletter. My Briggs inventory went from $45,000 [retail] down to the current $16,000 [retail]. I only purchased $350 [cost] in additional Briggs parts from secondary vendors since the 1st of June.
I gave up on getting the camshafts from Briggs so I brought and install Chinese after market ones in late October. Then as IL stated Briggs got them in Mid November three weeks after I got the last engine out.
I hopefully I will restart ordering Briggs parts in January 2022 from my Briggs distributor when my imposed no purchase order expires, but I may wait until April 2022 to see what in the Briggs line shows up for repairs. I got one other distributor on a no purchase order that expires the end February 2022. That second distributor has only lost around $3,000 in sales since August but their competitor pickup those sales. Just added an extra day to the delivery times. This year purchases would had exceeded 2019 purchases if they didn't start charging a 1.5% convenience fee for credit card use. They said I could switch to ACH payments but they refused to switch my business over. I spent two months trying to get it done. That was in July-August. The second distributor switch over to the same fee in October but they switch my business over as soon as I called them. I just got to keep more money in the local bank account now as I pay upon receipt of parts even though they got me on a NET 25 plan. I just prefer to operate on a cash accounting plan. At least I know my bills are paid on time.
Overall not a bad year as I recovered from the 2020 turn down in business and am currently just $500 under 2019 gross sales. It basically comes down that I had more income this year and the distributors lost income.
