Hit the summer car shows and get a vendor space to sell them direct. Your Mach 1 would make a good demo display to attract buyers! I bet a vendor space would cost less than postage.
Great Idea. I will for sure have them installed AND a set for display regardless of if I get a vendors spot or not. I think it'll just take a bit of time.Hit the summer car shows and get a vendor space to sell them direct. Your Mach 1 would make a good demo display to attract buyers! I bet a vendor space would cost less than postage.
The gentleman (Paul Cote) who sold us our 1969 Shelby GT500 has become a good friend of ours. He lives in Ottawa, Canada. He is restoring a 1968 Shelby GT500KR(!), and needed a set of amber 1157 bulbs. He was, of course, able to locate them easily enough, but as I recall the various venders were quoting him almost $50 (Canadian, but still...) for ground shipping! I checked to see what it would be for us to ship him the bulbs via USPS. It turned out if we had the vendor he chose to use ship the bulbs to us, then I used USPS to ship them to him, the total shipping expense was less than $25.00 USD. So, that is what we did - we shipped is 10 pack of amber 1157 bulbs once they got to use. Amazing...Well for all my American friends who feel that shipping cost are getting out of hand, try this on for size.
Today I needed to mail out a set of my Hella headlight water shields by Canada Post to an address in Canada. The package weighed less than 3 oz, but I guess size matters and it was only a small padded envelope. The cost was $22 Cdn. That of course includes "fuel surcharge" and tax. By contrast, and don't ask me why, it only cost a little over $16 Cdn to mail the same package to the US the last time I shipped a set. That too may have changed by now, but I hope not.
Now, I sell the parts for the least I can to cover my costs. I'm not in it to make money per se, but the cost of mail (I charge the exact, or as close as possible) could kill any chance I have of more orders. (See my ad in the "For Sale" section of the forum) I hope not, but its frustrating as hell that mail/shipping costs, dictate whether a person buys a product or not and personally, I don't blame them.
Still, any mail or shipping cost will usually be far cheaper overall, than a road trip to go pick up the product or parts.
There's no logic to any of it. Well, I guess there is. People want more and more money to cover "inflation", but all that does is cause greater inflation. And the merry-go-round continues.The gentleman (Paul Cote) who sold us our 1969 Shelby GT500 has become a good friend of ours. He lives in Ottawa, Canada. He is restoring a 1968 Shelby GT500KR(!), and needed a set of amber 1157 bulbs. He was, of course, able to locate them easily enough, but as I recall the various venders were quoting him almost $50 (Canadian, but still...) for ground shipping! I checked to see what it would be for us to ship him the bulbs via USPS. It turned out if we had the vendor he chose to use ship the bulbs to us, then I used USPS to ship them to him, the total shipping expense was less than $25.00 USD. So, that is what we did - we shipped is 10 pack of amber 1157 bulbs once they got to use. Amazing...
The sad thing is our local parts store sells them for about $8 a two pack and nobody buys them. You have to shake the dust off to see the number on the package.The gentleman (Paul Cote) who sold us our 1969 Shelby GT500 has become a good friend of ours. He lives in Ottawa, Canada. He is restoring a 1968 Shelby GT500KR(!), and needed a set of amber 1157 bulbs. He was, of course, able to locate them easily enough, but as I recall the various venders were quoting him almost $50 (Canadian, but still...) for ground shipping! I checked to see what it would be for us to ship him the bulbs via USPS. It turned out if we had the vendor he chose to use ship the bulbs to us, then I used USPS to ship them to him, the total shipping expense was less than $25.00 USD. So, that is what we did - we shipped is 10 pack of amber 1157 bulbs once they got to use. Amazing...
And what a beautiful car you have!@ric@NPD
Here is my not quite complete 71. This car is rebuilt with 90% NPD parts, so it’s an NPD Mustang! It would not exist as a restored car without your company. Thanks for supporting all of us!
Very true.I'm glad that everyone has settled down and are on speaking terms. Good to see that our members can admit when wrong or in err. One of the downfalls in using social media is that besides not hearing someone's voice you also don't see their facial expressions. Lacking these audio and visual clues can lead to a lot of different interpretations when someone makes a statement or comment.
Everything I've purchased so far has been made locally or in Canada. NPD Ocala answered all my questions when I called.All the after market companies sell the same CRAP from over seas, the help on the phone knows no more than you are reading online or in magazine, it sucks there are few places that still exist to get parts. Hell West Coast Classic Cougars has "some " mustang parts and they rate the parts, great place wish the big companies werent so Wallie world.
This is a good perspective. Rick/NPD has already explained why shipping is what it is. More often than not its reasonable enough and always fast. Overall, it's about as reasonable as one could ask.I just placed an order with NPD on Tuesday at about 3;30 or so and it arrived today with no delays. The part I ordered is very light and I found the shipping very reasonable. If I need a part and it is in stock, I always order from NPD because they ship so quickly. In fact, I just ordered another part that I forgot to order on Tuesday. If have to pay a dollar or more for this quick of shipping, I am good with it.
Tom
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