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I'm in the process of gathering together parts to rebuild miscellaneous suspension components, nuts, bolts, clips, brackets, bushings, etc. Looking at getting them mainly from Paragon and the Dr. I have ordered from both previously with good luck, but there are some big price differences between the two for the same??? part. Has anyone else purchased this type of material from either and what was your experiences with it when it came to meeting the judges eyes?
I have purchased many items from Paragon and find their product and service to be excellent. They also have a program (I think this is still in effect check their catalog for the details)if you purchase $500.00 at one time they will give you a 15% discount. The discount will continue to be applied to any future items purchases provided it is one they can discount. I have also purchase items from Dr. Rebuild and they seem to have good quality. My only complaint with them is that the prices in the catalog are usually lower than when you place an order. As is typical with many reproduction items the quality and configuration is sometimes lacking, but this is true of most repro suppilers.
I regret our catalogs have incorrect price information. Catalog #27 was published in early 2000 and is still in circulation today in 2003. I know this will sound like bragging, but people seem to save our old catalogs. We regularly get orders from our old catalogs, some well over 10 years old and as you can surmise those prices are way out of date.
Our next catalog, this fall 2003 or spring 2004 will not have this predicament of prices changing following printing. These subsequent catalogs will no longer include prices, only part numbers. Current prices will be found in a separate price sheet which we will attempt to update frequently. I prefer to use the internet to publish this price sheet, however have not been able to export an excel database in one html document. With about 36,000 cells, the excel document will not work properly when uploaded. We cannot get it to upload in entirety.
I have sought assistance for this excel problem, but this has not yet proved fruitful or practical. I am still searching, however and in the meantime you can email, write or even call to get the current pricing with our seven digit part number. Of course if any of you are an internet html wiz kid, we may have a job for you.
What you need is a real database, not Excel. Use MS Access and run it instead. I worked with one MS Access setup in an HTML environment for a county property appraiser's database and obviously, if it will hold thiers, it will hold yours.
Since you have no doubt put a lot into Excel, you haven't lost anything as you can import the Excel into Access.
Good luck with it. And great idea to have the prices on the Internet where they can be constantly up to date.
Geoffrey,
May I make a suggestion for your seperate price sheet idea..... Make the page numbers of the catalog and the price sheet match and then on the price sheet list the items in part number numeric order for each page only. That would make finding prices for customers easy and allow creation on an xl spread sheet that is down loadable from your web site. You do have a great catalog and things are easy to find.
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