Re: Just a PSA on parts prices
[Re: sasquatch]
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09/02/18 10:50 PM
09/02/18 10:50 PM
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Race Winning Brands is who bought the piece of Dart. Same company now owns Diamond, JE, Wiesco, K1 and on and on...... They have been buying companies like they are going out of style. Todd sounds like a monopoly in the making.
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Re: Just a PSA on parts prices
[Re: sasquatch]
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09/04/18 10:59 AM
09/04/18 10:59 AM
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crabman173
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They probably bought the company because they were shown LS Chevy parts sales and growth numbers I remember way way back when speed shops were presented with the "Import" market that was starting to roar--sadly many old school hot old guys could not stand young folks and the stupid things they were doing to silly 4 bangers I was one of them---a real racer and steeped in the old school ways so we missed the boat on what would have been one heck of a ride--so I learned that lesson well Engine shops that are not embracing EFI, LS Chevys and boosted builds will be like fossils before long Thing is many are at an age where it is just easier to walk away and so machine shops will just wither and be fewer in numbers-- Embrace change or die
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Re: Just a PSA on parts prices
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09/04/18 03:16 PM
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Direct result of tariffs and trade war , I saw a cage builder just post that his tubing prices are up 78% since January. It has almost NOTHING to do with the trade war, the price of steel has not gone up %78 percent, import steel has only gone up %25 and that is only part of the steel being used, even if it all went up %25 in response that does in no way make the end product go up %25 as the tarrifed steel is only a small part of the whole operation. It has a lot more to do with the extremly low un umployment rate, %3.9 percent nationally. In my experience one out of ten people dont really want a job, thats 10%, that means unemployment is so low that even people who dont want to work are being put to work (I know several first hand) and you got to pay em more than their really worth for sub-par performance and the only way to afford that is to charge more for your product or service.
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Re: Just a PSA on parts prices
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09/04/18 06:09 PM
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It has almost NOTHING to do with the trade war, the price of steel has not gone up %78 percent, import steel has only gone up %25 and that is only part of the steel being used, even if it all went up %25 in response that does in no way make the end product go up %25 as the tarrifed steel is only a small part of the whole operation.
It has a lot more to do with the extremly low un umployment rate, %3.9 percent nationally. In my experience one out of ten people dont really want a job, thats 10%, that means unemployment is so low that even people who dont want to work are being put to work (I know several first hand) and you got to pay em more than their really worth for sub-par performance and the only way to afford that is to charge more for your product or service. Agree 100%
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