Point in hand......
I just had a long conversation with John at TRF regarding Dzus fasteners. None
of the other suppliers have them in stock. If you look at VB's catalog, they
have
them listed at $16.95 each (you need 4 for a TR3 Windscreen alone). The problem
seems
to be that Dzus will only ship 10,000 units at a reasonable cost and jacks the
price
up for anything less (which VB is the only one willing to buy). I asked John if
they
thought about getting together with other distributors and buy together at the
lower
price. He spoke to VB and they were only willing to sell them to TRF at retail
price.
So, what does TRF do.... They are negotiating with a manufacture to produce a
better
quality fastener at a much lower price. So who do you think they have in mind
when
they
take the time and effort to do this? If everyone sold it at the $16.95 price,
we'd
pay $16.95.
TRF would have their share of sales just as VB and MOSS. But TRF believes this
is
not in their customers' best interest.
Enough said. Onto other Triumph discussions.
Scott Suhring
Elizabethtown, PA
'70 TR6
'59 TR3
George Richardson wrote:
> Silly? How are you going to get parts that TRF owns the tooling for from
> someone else unless they canbuy them from TRF? How about TR3 control heads?
> TRF has them made and supplies them to everyone else who sells them. That's
> just an item I know off the top of my head. How about these green hoses that
> everyone waits for for the TR6? I don't see people getting them from anywhere
> else.
>
> TR3 tie rod ends from TRF are made exclusively for TRF. Although other
> manufacturers supply tie rod ends, none of them are near the quality of the
> item supplied by TRF.
>
> Just because you haven't found a part that TRF has that you can't get from
> Rimmers, doesn't mean everyone else has found the same to be true.
>
> You want to pick on TRFs business practices, fine.
>
> You want to claim that someone else can supply items that TRF alone makes? Get
> real!
>
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>
> > According to George Richardson:
> > >
> > > Some parts are just not available "elsewhere". If TRF goes down, they
> > > may not be available at all.
> >
> > Name them?? Considering that the main complaint seems to be that TRF
> > doesn't have the parts they advertise, the claim above seems rather
> > silly. I have yet to find TRF to have any part I need available. And
> > unless I read their price list wrong, they wanted 3 times as much for
> > my last needed part than what I paid to have it shipped here from
> > England. And talking about delivery times, it only took 7 days.
> > I can't imagine any part TRF has(?) that Rimmer couldn't provide.
> >
> > bill
> >
> > --
> > Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves
> > bill@cs.uofs.edu | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
> > University of Scranton |
> > Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include <std.disclaimer.h>
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