strat81 said:With shipping, a turn signal lens for a mirror is $50-$60. I can buy a whole bloody mirror, lens and all, from Rock Auto for less than $65.
What in the blue hell are people smoking to come up with prices like this???
But there are a whole lot of us who don't have lenses at all, who would like to be able to buy lenses at a reasonable price.the roadie said:But there's not enough people breaking JUST the lenses and not tearing the whole mirror off the truck, to support the aftermarket supply chain for lenses only.
the roadie said:Lesson: junkyards rock.
They have to make up for all the wholesale discounts they give local mechanics. If the local mechanics get you to pay list price for a part, they make money off you twice. If your local dealer started giving EVERY consumer a discount, the other dealers would shun them at the chamber of commerce meetings, the country club's tennis courts, and other dealer's kids would taunt them at dental school. The conspiracy of "list prices" strikes again.strat81 said:...Instead of getting 80% of something by giving me a price that isn't complete thievery, they get nothing. ...
the roadie said:They have to make up for all the wholesale discounts they give local mechanics. If the local mechanics get you to pay list price for a part, they make money off you twice. If your local dealer started giving EVERY consumer a discount, the other dealers would shun them at the chamber of commerce meetings, the country club's tennis courts, and other dealer's kids would taunt them at dental school. The conspiracy of "list prices" strikes again.
Then the market is pricing the item properly. $1 less than you're willing to pay for the scarcity.Boricua SS said:.. im still getting the clear ones regardless ..
the roadie said:Then the market is pricing the item properly. $1 less than you're willing to pay for the scarcity.