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| Author: | jeepdan [ Sun Jun 05, 2011 9:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Online parts, not always the best deal |
After suffering a minor collision, I started shopping for a tail light assembly, rear wheel flair, mud flap, and the rear bumper cover/facia. I settled on wholesalemopar.com as the other two online parts dealers did not show the tail light assembly available. Anyhow due to the oversize box for the bumper cover, the shipping came to $191.00 making the total order amount of $527.00. I went to my local Jeep dealer an ordered everything, with tax, at a cost of $385.00. |
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| Author: | papaindigo [ Sun Jun 05, 2011 9:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Online parts, not always the best deal |
Yep that shipping can eat into the margin for oversize items or even small items. It cost stoutdog about the same to go to a dealer to replace a bad air box to turbo hose as it would have cost to order and ship. |
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| Author: | Wobbly [ Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Online parts, not always the best deal |
Many online vendors will show an attractive price for an item and then load their profit into the shipping. Some will make you go through the checkout process to find the total cost. When using Google to search for an item, often the search results will be swamped with hits on Amazon resellers, who are all referring to the same item on Amazon. Vendors such as "Milly's_budgie_and_ parakeet_bazaar" may be shown in the Google search results as a seller of Jeep Parts, if Milly is an Amazon reseller. Someone needs to develop a filter to eliminate these Amazon resellers from Google search results. Then there are the vendors who have 50 websites all offering the same part at the same price. |
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