Price guaging

[Mattmotors]

Talk about getting ripped off!!!!

 

[StarTech]

Yes a lot pricing gouging is going on for those that don't know to just buy the Champion plug RC12YC or the NGK-2460.

Back in June I brought a couple seats from SearPartsDirect for under $90 plus shipping each. Now they want $179.96 plus shipping each. More than double the price.

 

[ILENGINE]

That price is over twice the Kohler list price. And from the listing they don't even have it in stock. They would have to order from their warehouse prior to shipping to you.

 

[hlw49]

We use parts tree for parts lookup but the are really high on the price of parts. It is a good parts lookup.

 

[Tiger Small Engine]

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The beauty of a free capitalist economy is that competition naturally takes care of most pricing issues.

 

[StarTech]

The beauty of a free capitalist economy is that competition naturally takes care of most pricing issues.

This is why they try to hide things from us. And sometimes they do pretty darn good job of doing it too.

In the case of the seats one distributor is very reasonably priced, the other main distributor is just as high as Sears but they were before the Sears price hike.

As other parts it takes someone like me to find, cross reference, and keep track of the alternate parts.

Here is an example of the stock record here for the Kohler PN. By checking the crosses I can usually find a better priced part that both saves me and the customer money.
In the case of spark plugs it help reduce the overall inventory of different plugs that are the same just different part numbers.

 

[Hammermechanicman]

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Heck i have a couple i will let go for $15.99. Taking a loss but just trying to be a good guy.

 

[slomo]

Thank Joe and Kam' la.

Better get out and vote.

 

[StarTech]

Thank Joe and Kam' la.

Better get out and vote.

The problem is not as much as our politicians as it is all the financial investment companies taking other the supply chain.

The only ways to get this under control is either price controls or we simply keep using our knowledge to beat them back down. There will always be those that think only OEM parts are the best when they sometimes are not.

 

[StarTech]

But everything has took such a jump price. I just brought 3500# trailer bearing set that cost $22.98 back in 2019 which are now $24.58 from O'reilys. Now the same bearings and seal but from a different company thru TSC was sticker price @ $37.98. Just shows that shopping around even local can have its benefits.

It all depends how greedy a company is.