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09-20-2007, 08:57 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Price Check!
Page 86 of the brand new Aircraft Spruce Catalog K1100-08 dimpled anchor nuts are listed at 32 cents each. However, if you try to order them you will find that the are actually 73 cents each. I need 186 of them for a wing tip replacement modification that I am making to my RV-6A and according to my practice I rounded the order quantity up to 200. When I ran into this on line I stopped the order process and called in the order only to find that the 73 cent price is correct and the person I talked to said "It's blacked out" in the catalog. Maybe it is in the sales department copy but not the one they sent me in the mail. I checked Van's and found the price is 56 cents each. So, I have them in route for $112 as opposed to $146 from Aircraft Spruce. According to the ACS catalog they should have cost $64. I sent ACS an e-mail through their contact us system yesterday asking for an explanation but received no response. Bottom line, be careful to check the actual price charged when placing an order.
Bob Axsom
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09-20-2007, 09:48 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Bakersfield ,Calyfornia
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yeah bob! really disappointing. I've ordered stuff that is 100% higher than the listed price. like cotterless hitch pins. IIRC
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09-20-2007, 11:17 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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Yeah, but...
I understand the frustration, but is does say "Prices subject to change without notice" at the bottom of every page of the catalog.
John Clark
RV8 N18U "Sunshine"
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09-21-2007, 12:11 AM
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Being in manufacturing and dealing with supplier every day...the last year EVERYTHING has gone up in prices. My suppliers that used to have a few percent increase every couple of years have had 3 or 4 in just the last 12 months. Cost of materials has skyrocketed. I agree it can be frustrating to the consumer, but there is just not much the seller can do when the suppliers increase the prices every few months. When your dealing with items with small profit margins, like nuts, bolts, hardware, etc the seller simply has to keep up with current priceing.
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09-21-2007, 04:00 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Australia
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WARNING - THREAD DRIFT
Mark Manda
Why the photo of the cover of "Whipped Cream" next to your name?
John
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09-21-2007, 06:41 AM
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Location: Kyle, TX
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rjtjrt
WARNING - THREAD DRIFT
Mark Manda
Why the photo of the cover of "Whipped Cream" next to your name?
John
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Was that whipped cream? On my computer it looked like someone in a wedding dress!  (Hey, Mark started the "drift"!  )
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Fred Magare
GySgt, USMC (Ret.)
PP-ASEL, A&P
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RV-9A Firewall Forward
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09-21-2007, 07:33 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Arkansas
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Here is an example of what my material costs have done in the last year. I was paying $2.35 a lb. for the particular tool steel I use several thousand lbs. a year. It is now $3.75 a lb. We can thank China for that.
I am amazed the price of Van's kits haven't gone up much more than they have. Still a bargain. Thanks Van!!!!
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09-21-2007, 08:49 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Austin, TX
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thread drift -- whipped cream
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Originally Posted by FredMagare
Was that whipped cream? On my computer it looked like someone in a wedding dress! (Hey, Mark started the "drift"! ) |
codgers recognize the 1967 album "whipped cream" by herb alpert and the tijuana brass. iirc, it was the album that had "taste of honey" on it.
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john prickett (VAF 449)
manchaca, tx (suburb of austin)
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09-21-2007, 01:04 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: sugar land, texas
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finally something i understand
I've been on the site for two years and finally i see something i understand! Ahhh.. the tijuana brass.. the good old days! Does this make me a codger?
dennis
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10-12-2007, 12:29 PM
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Whipped Cream...Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
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Originally Posted by johnp
codgers recognize the 1967 album "whipped cream" by herb alpert and the tijuana brass. iirc, it was the album that had "taste of honey" on it.
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I remember it...so that confirms what I have suspected: I am a codger. Is that sorta like a curmudgeon, which I've been called a few times!
BTW, I happen to still own my original 1967 "Whipped Cream" album. I always did like whipped cream!
But it looks like Mark has changed his avatar.
Don
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