All I know in reference to my business that it is the end of the season until about March next year. Hopefully Briggs things will be straighten out by then.
I do have a slight problem as my main Briggs distributor is ridiculous on shipping charges; unless, I order over $200 then the shipping is free. I placed a $190 order back in June and was slapped with $45 in shipping charges. That is probably why I am sitting on a $140 restock order now. I will just wait until I get a $200 order together or reroute to another vendor if before that comes to be true I need a priority item. That vendor done lost over $3000 in sales because of this attitude in the last 4 yrs.
Also Power Distributors in Ohio dropped me because I wasn't at a level they wanted me to be at. Hey if they provided the same 20% discount instead of the 10% they would have gotten the business. They acted like it was my fault for vendors that provided better discounts or had the parts in stock.
It probably will be the same with Gardner on the Oregon parts as they don't stock them but RBI does. Anyway I don't think they will drop me right now.
The following only show the last three years since this year is over too of the top five vendors.
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May look like I purchased less parts but in fact I brought more at better discounts. I actually went through a little over $8K in parts cost wise this year.
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