Re: U-joint lock plate supply

Posted by Mike On 2011/9/8 9:38:40

"NAPA list them online for $1.29 if the hole span is correct for you. Part number PUJ 560LP"

That's more like it! Napa can get almost anything from the warehouse next day too, so no long wait.


Listen, i understand a business has to make profit. However, plates like these would be loss leaders, or something you don't make a killing on. Like was said, $160 is just not practical. Sometimes you have to put down the calculator and say "hey, yes, i could justify this 25 cent part being $10, but this is ridiculous. How about 4 for 5 bucks, 5 bucks shipping the whole set, or no shipping if you're buying X amount of other stuff"

It's what put circuit city out of business. People were getting wise that ink cartridges didn't have to be $80, and that they were buying cables for $2.50 and selling them to you with your new printer for $35. It's just obscene on the small parts, but then they'll take a loss or make 5% on the larger parts, which would be junk at that.


braspack46:

Hey! Right down the road! My shop is on main street next to the lions building, on the same side as Locos Amigos. Been there almost 10 years after moving from Orwell.

I'm not normally in the shop, i drive around in the white astro van all day working for different customers, so i only pop in and out of there between calls.

I left my car at the packard show as i had to meet another packardinfo user over towards canton to drop off some parts he had bought and to look at a late 30's pontiac he was considering buying. I had my partner drive the car back after the show was over.

We should get together at some point!



Edit: Just saw you have a limo, was it by chance at the airport car show, out on the grass towards the road, last summer, with a group of packards? If so, that is one fine car! I had my Pontiac there for that show, as the motor and tranny was out of the Packard.