Trust me this has been beat through the ground! Please make it stop!
----- Original Message -----
From: Hutmacher, Greg <ghutmacher@stanleyworks.com>
To: 'Triumphs List' <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 11:11 AM
Subject: re: Roadster Factory gouging
>
> I'm on the digest, so forgive me if this has already been beat into the
> ground. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most of the major LBC
> parts suppliers have a minimum shipping amount such as the case described
> below for the Roadster Factory? Isn't that fairly common? In my other
hobby,
> the major mail order suppliers won't even accept an order under $15 so
they
> don't have to mess with $1 orders. Heck, it probably costs them five
dollars
> at least in time spent just to take, pick, and pack your order. I'm not
> defending any particular vendor, just an observation. Solution: buy more
> than a couple of dollars worth of stuff at a time. Works for me anyway.
> Gives me a chance to stock up on regular maintenance items that I know
I'll
> use anyway.
> Regards, Greg Hutmacher
> ////
> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:04:28, -0500
> From: QAZX57A@prodigy.com (MR DANIEL R CAREY)
> Subject: Roadster Factory gouging
>
>
> called in an order to TRF..needed a few of those black snaps on the
> door of my spit......
> 50 cents each!!! wow......so i ordered a few......understanding that
> the have to feed their families too......
> so i get get the "package" in the mail...a little manila bubble
> mailer with my snaps...........
>
> cost 65 cents to mail....so what do you think the "shipping charge"
> was? 5.00 !! hO HO HO..
> YOU WOULD THINK THAT they could at least charge something close to
> the actual cost.....
>
> oh well...my business will go to spitbits, Moss, NW Briish parts...or
> others....if thats the"TRF policies" they have...so much for customer
> oriented!!....
>
> oh yes the snaps do look like they will fit....
>
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