I just get tired of everyone blaming Trump for their own personal condition....
I lived through Obama and his " new normal economy" ....seems like records being broken everyday before Covid was a " magic wand"....
KE4AVB wrote:The question is how many you must go through the get a good one from the cheap Chinese cloners? Every one that I have brought so far has had problems.
I am getting to the point of just quit trying to even to repair anything. Just spent a week buying and getting in blades and debris caps for a Husqvarna Revelation mower deck to only end up finding both $140 quick change assemblies bent; therefore, I reverted the deck back to standard spindles and blades. Good thing I brought those spindles back in June for stock.
Then there is the PA540A I am working on where Kawasaki has the oil on a nation-wide back order for at least 8 weeks and the O-ring as NLA. Hopefully I have ordered the right dash o-ring and oil seal out CA. They should be here in a week for me to try them.
And we yet to feel the full effect of the Covid-19 induced problems. I just got smacked by MTD and Husqvarna with major price increases; the rest of OEMs will follow their lead shortly. The Husqvarna price file was a mess and took over a day to straighten out. And MTD made prices at the wholesale level but left the retail prices the same so some items are now at listed at nearly cost which I need to catch before quoting repairs. Here is an example of one of the Husqvarna price increases that just got slapped with. A spindle shaft that sold for under $16 with a cost of $9.5 is now listed at $48 and costs $24 plus shipping. The customer is screaming at me for the price increase which all I can do is sale the two parts at cost.
Thanks to DJT for this because of all his pissing off other countries and his tariffs. If we stay on the same path as the last four years we are going to be in one heck of a mess. Old folks are already becoming expendable as hospitals are now starting to turn us away in preference of the younger folks; basically it taxpayers over non taxpayers. Of course we are not going to have the medical insurance much longer if Medicare and Social Security is killed off. Regular insurance including ACA is already beyond my total income. I tried back in October last year, my income at the time was $300 average per month and the lowest the they wanted was $1200 per month so you guess it I don't have any insurance and I even avoid going to the doctor now; unless, absolutely necessary. I even tried to get on my state's Medicaid and was turned down as I made too much money according to them. I would be better just killing myself; so there, I said it.
38racing wrote:Just a comment on the price jumps. A friend's looking for a radar side sensor for his Buick. It was out of stock at rockauto so I signed up for email when in stock again. About a week or so ago I get the email. In stock at $232 cdn. Day before yesterday I'm checking with my friend. I look it up and it's back to not in stock. Sign up again and get email today . In stock for $296 cdn. Exactly same part .
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