masterpart prices for SMG993736190R

Re: masterpart prices for SMG993736190R

I keep saying and, saying and, saying…

SHOP AROUND!

Some suppliers are better on some parts than others ad the differences can be wildly different. In fact, the differences can be a LOT more than even the carriage charge to have the single item sent to you.

Connect are superb on some parts. Masterpart whip CDSL prices on some items. Maddocks whips both of them on others. SEME can be worthwhile as well at times.

If you only want to look it up on a couple then play Masterpart and Connect off one another as they have the easiest lookups and pricing.

But don’t write off Homespares or Qualtex as, sometimes, they can give you a surprise by having stock and being cheap. Not only that they often carry stuff that you don’t expect.

It all depends on how much effort you want to put into it really.

I did spares distribution for a while and, honestly, if you assume that all suppliers prices will be about the same then you really are living on cloud cuckooland. That goes for wholesale supplies as much as normal trade.

But what I’d say is that, if you’re spending let’s say a grand a month on parts, you can probably easily save a hundred to two hundred quid with a bit of effort and time. I think that an extra £200 in MY pocket a month is worth a few minutes work but, to each their own.

K.

Re: masterpart prices for SMG993736190R

iadom wrote:From several posts on this subject in the past it seems that Connect for one have wildly differing prices from one individual to another for the same part.

They do Jim. There’s no doubt about that or debate either but most trade suppliers operate such a system whether you realise it or not. I can totally understand that in all honesty as, to some degree, we do the same thing only we’re often not as clever about it, which is one of the things I want to touch on at the meeting this month.

It’s got nothing to do with spares suppliers though, apart from the same techniques applied to service pricing. 😉

When, in the dark and distant past, I was doing spares distribution on a much smaller scale than CDSL or any of the others mentioned, I’d just do simple price breaks on quantities or give an extra few points on most parts but it wasn’t 50{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} by any stretch.

In some ways you have to admire the spares suppliers for at least trying to keep the prices up, especially CDSL with their retail websites as at least they’re not hacking up the prices like some of the idiots on Fleabay! But, by the same token, I accept that the “trade” price isn’t often what you’d perhaps expect. But then, if they offered good pricing to the idiots on Fleabay they’d just hack up the prices even more…

You can see where this is going.

It ha become an incredibly complex thing, largely due to idiots selling things at silly prices, making a couple of quid and effectively stealing the bread from you guys’ table to a large extent.

And, this is the tightrope we walk every day with spares pricing as well. We’ve been slagged off a few times for the prices on the UKW shop but, believe it or not, we’re trying to keep the pricing up to the punter in the street. At every turn however, there’s some idiot that will hack that up and do it a few quid cheaper.

For what?

That’s what I don’t get, why give margin away? It’s a stupid, self destructive tactic unless you really have to or you know you’re getting really good, repetitive and solid business from.

But that’s my little tantrum about Ebay sellers etc. over for now. 😉

Now, importantly, I’ve been toying with the idea of making online trade accounts available on UKW. We don’t make money on it and, to be frank, it’s more hassle than it’s worth from my perspective, especially if you get messed about on payments but I do realise that there’s a few bits or so that we can magically source that nobody else seems able to find.

To do this will cost me money which I don’t mind spending (honest, heh, come on I’m Scottish ;)) and will take a LOT of work on our part but it’d make a lot of things available that perhaps wouldn’t otherwise be. Thing is, is there any interest?

I have to be quite, crystal, clear here though. UKW is a stop of last resort for trade spares. We are NOT becoming a “trade supplier” as such and we’re not out to even look at offering any kind of challenge to any of the existing suppliers, not even remotely. We don’t have the buying power or resources to even think about it and, TBH, I’ve no reason to do that

We’ve tried bulk buys in the past to get price breaks on parts and, TBH, no-one seemed all that interested really. We’ve helped a lot of you out when you’ve been in the crap with a part by getting it when you’re stuck. We’ve sourced stuff that people have had a problem with. All I’m thinking on doing is extending that and making it a bit more accessible.

However, we’ve inherited the all ISE parts and we have to offer “trade” pricing on them anyway so to extend it to other parts isn’t beyond the wit of man. And I want the ISE parts easily accessible to all that want them at sensible prices, as well as the technical info so it sorta makes sense, to me at least.

ISE has also given me access to a lot of other parts by default and, to me, it would seem somewhat remiss to not make that available to others, many of whom I consider to be friends, at reasonable prices.

Well, there’s a fair bit to think about and, I hope, a bit of an explanation of how the parts side of things is the way it is and what, if anything, we can do about it.

But I’ve had my head buried in parts and trying to get my head round them for months now, it’s not so easy as you might think.

K.

Re: masterpart prices for SMG993736190R

Penguin45 wrote: I don’t mark up my parts and make my money on my labour.

:eeek:

Re: masterpart prices for SMG993736190R

I don’t mark up my parts and make my money on my labour. I tell my customers this and will even wield an invoice to prove the point, if required. :eeek: :eeek: :eeek:

my goodness……….then how much is the labour cost ……to cover the freebies

canufixit

Re: masterpart prices for SMG993736190R

Just to redress the balance of this thread and in defence of Masterpart and their pricing and my “Pricerunner” nomination for you to take note of: –

Bosch double valve part no: 086311 from Bosch retails direct from them at a staggering £68.51 😯

Masterpart = Identical valve (part No BS71102) just £6.99 +VAT 😀 😀 😀