Price Checking Spare Parts

We do things a little differently from many parts suppliers as we don’t use any electronic connections to manufacturers, etc., to list parts and, importantly, price them.

For our customers, that’s more often than not a good thing. It means you get better information, better prices and more access to spares that might otherwise be difficult to obtain.

To explain, although we only know so much about it, when large parts suppliers use electronic comms to pull off information about parts and the prices, they don’t much care what the parts are; all that they do is put a percentage margin on top and that’s it, done.

What we do is look at what the part is, see what the cost is, and then put a sensible margin on it so you don’t end up overcharging for things, especially higher-cost parts.

In short, people get a fairer price set by a human, using common sense.

Of course, that’s not completely infallible, and we’d not be so bold as to presume it was because mistakes can happen and we can get caught out by changes made that we’re not aware of but almost all the time, this is a better way in our opinion.

The other huge advantage to this way of working is that we can source from any supplier we like, whenever we like. We have complete freedom and independence to do that, as we’re not tied to any particular system, unlike most.

Which means we can often source spare parts cheaper and, just get them because in some cases for others, if their “approved suppler/s” don’t have what you need, they can’t supply it.

We can go off and see what’s about from multiple sources, not just one.

And, atop that, we can see who has stock, where and how quickly you can get it. From multiple sources and not just one or two.

It used to be that once a year, or when something major happened that caused an economic upset that we’d get a “price rise” notification on parts from manufacturers. These days, that doesn’t really happen.

What they seem to do now is adjust prices on the fly all the time and don’t bother to tell anyone because, a lot of the bigger companies have some sort of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) system on the go that in turn adjusts their systems.

We don’t have that and we do not get told about price changes so, every now and then if we’ve not picked it up, we have to advise customers of that. And, as you might expect, it’s all too often one way, the prices go up, rarely down.

We do our best and, where we spot changes, adjust accordingly but due to how we work there are occasions where we we can’t supply at the price we had the last time we checked it. This is the reason why that is.