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    6/07/2018 7:50 AM  #1

    TremendousWand
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    Interesting Part Pricing Breakdown

    I'm ordering a pair of upper and lower control arms.
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    Thought I'd share the price breakdown after looking around online.  This was the TOTAL price.  Saw varying promo codes, free shipping, and tax free retailers. (shipping to Dallas)

    210.19 - RockAuto
    237.80 - Ebay
    255.94 - Amazon
    276.44 - Summit Racing
    221.47 - Autoplicity
    222.41 - CARID

    Price difference from cheapest to most expensive was $66 bucks.  Thats a 24% difference from low to high.  I guess the take away is to shop around.  Also, don't fall for the memorial day, labor day, christmas, holiday sales with their spam emails and big red font.  Sometimes its just a gimmick.  I was going to order some spring saddles from CJ Pony parts on their memorial day sale but didn't get to it till Tuesday after the sale had ended.  The difference in their H-U-G-E memorial day sale and their non sale price w/ a promo code was all of $1 dollar.

    I usually order out of state to save the 8% sales tax.  If you wait around for a free shipping offer or a promo code to package with your purchase you can save quite a bit.  They opened a giant summit racing store in this area which is nice, but not sure if a 24% markup on parts is worth not having to wait on parts thru the mail.

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    6/07/2018 4:45 PM  #2

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    Re: Interesting Part Pricing Breakdown

    I buy a ton of stuff from Rock Auto for this very reason.  I tend to avoid eBay for stuff like this because there are so many horror stories about people buying parts they think are from a certain manufacturer only to find out that something's not quite right, and that they got hosed by someone from Fong Shi Province making knock off parts.  They even ape the boxes so well its hard to tell.  Part numbers, the whole nine yards.  Amazon can be okay, but I usually find stuff cheaper elsewhere, and you have to watch shipping on some of the stuff, and a lot of the car parts don't qualify for Prime, so no free 2 day shipping even if you have Prime. 

    I've bought most of the replacement parts for my '89 GT build from Rock Auto, and have been very happy.  I think I had one part that was defective and had to be returned (and that's the only PITA with Rock Auto over the local parts store), but overall you can select the level of quality you want on most parts, and their pricing is very had to beat. 

     

    6/07/2018 5:16 PM  #3

    HudginJ3
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    Re: Interesting Part Pricing Breakdown

    Summit has been my go to for a lot of need it now parts. Nice to have them close. They are sometimes cheaper than the three  popular neighborhood stores. I bought oil, a filter, antifreeze and intake gaskets that I would of had to order from Summit. The price was reasonable and I got to window dream.

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    6/08/2018 7:23 PM  #4

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    Re: Interesting Part Pricing Breakdown

    I'm a big fan of both Rock Auto and Summit also.

     

    6/08/2018 7:50 PM  #5

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    Re: Interesting Part Pricing Breakdown

    Glens 1965 50 wrote:

    I'm a big fan of both Rock Auto and Summit also.

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