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Have a look at the price of these two parts on Connections!
HPT161387 £2.12 (SSP £16.17)
MER161387 £14.86 (SSP £25.05)They’re exactly the same part!!!
Bob
Re: Why the price difference?
MER161387 – £15.37
HPT161387 £2.24 (yes, no typo !) :eeek:WTF ?
Dave.
Re: Why the price difference?
Probably because the HPT part is available on a “77” code – buy a boxful, get a good discount. It was a way of giving distributors an extra price break in the pre-Merloni days.
Chris.
Re: Why the price difference?
It’s really very simple and a thing that we tried to put right many years ago with a system called EIDE.
If you’re stupid or lazy, you get ripped off on spares.
It’s very simple.
Just as our mystery shopper, Joe Strummer, who is apparently alive, well and keeping us all up to speed on spares pricing occasionally.
If you don’t want to be ripped off, check the prices on spares. Check the cross-references, some of them are so child-like it’s unbelievably simple, like the examples above.
It still amazes me that, for example, some people buy the same Servis module at almost four times the price from GBDAR that you can buy from MFI at a fraction of the cost.
Now, who’s taking the proverbial?
K.
Re: Why the price difference?
It’s unbelievable the vast range and price differences of drain pumps. And a standard Askoll or Plaset will usually avoid anyone having to buy one of the fancy priced things complete with chamber.
Brushes too. How many ways to package a bit of 12×4 carbon?
So what does EIDE stand for, then?
Mike.Re: Why the price difference?
leavemetogetonwithit wrote:
So what does EIDE stand for, then?Just an obsolete stock system, Mike.
Chris.
Re: Why the price difference?
eide is alive & well currently over 7 million lines of product information
( 10 times connect & wash vac put together)Re: Why the price difference?
Correct me if I’m wrong here Pete…
Jess, Peter’s brother, actually wrote EIDE quite some time ago and it was used as my system of choice for spares lookup. It was quick, simple and gave any alternatives available that had been found.
It saved a fortune!
It saved double stocking spares and, very often, found an alternative that we had in stock so saved a lot of ordering something only to find that it was what we already had. I’m sure we’ve all had that happen to us on many an occasion. It also had many of the distributors pricing information on it so you could buy at the best prices available.
Needless to say, some people didn’t really like this idea.
BTW Pete, Paul should have a few little presents for you as I finally remembered to do it the other day when I was yapping to him. 😉
K.
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