Another thread got me to thinking. I have saw the vast multitudes of users on this site who get fighting mad over lowballers and scrubs. People always talk about how we should make x amount of dollars per hour. If not we are only driving the price down for the rest of us in the industry. Or how someone came by and undercut us by $5.00 and got our account. And how %#*^ mad we are about it.
Now we are also one industry that sems to be bound and determined that alot of us are gonna shop around and find our mower parts and accessories as cheap as we can find em. Some completely forsake their neighborhood independently owned dealer to buy their parts from some online company on the oppoisite side of the United States because they are cheaper.
Isn't this the same as " The pot calling the kettle black"? or metal or whatever?I used to have a LARGE greenhouse business for my area.Alocal Southern States store would constantly flood the airways of the local radio station with ads about keeping your money in the county and supporting your locally owned and operated Southern States store. Do you think they would buy plants from me? Heck no!:angry: They would not even look at my plants. They said all their plants come from Bonnie Plant Farm and would continue to do so.
So as you can tell, I personally do not think much of the idea of buying from some far off or online place. What is everyone elses opinion of this?
Now we are also one industry that sems to be bound and determined that alot of us are gonna shop around and find our mower parts and accessories as cheap as we can find em. Some completely forsake their neighborhood independently owned dealer to buy their parts from some online company on the oppoisite side of the United States because they are cheaper.
Isn't this the same as " The pot calling the kettle black"? or metal or whatever?I used to have a LARGE greenhouse business for my area.Alocal Southern States store would constantly flood the airways of the local radio station with ads about keeping your money in the county and supporting your locally owned and operated Southern States store. Do you think they would buy plants from me? Heck no!:angry: They would not even look at my plants. They said all their plants come from Bonnie Plant Farm and would continue to do so.
So as you can tell, I personally do not think much of the idea of buying from some far off or online place. What is everyone elses opinion of this?