learning who to buy parts from

[kajo]

as i did more research on maint and such i decided to buy a battery fill bottle and a few other things..i am glad i looked at a few different sites ot i would have been mad..
at golfcartcatalog.com the fill bottle is 9.95
at golf cart trader the same bottle is 23.95..man i would have been really mad if i had bought that one.
i am going to be really careful with golf cart trader in the future with that price difference.

 

[Radicalgolfcarts]

Not to knock any other site..... but sometimes the price is saying something!!

 

[kajo]

i take that as "you get what you pay for" and i agree..
i am the kind of guy that buys only the best because i only want
to buy it once but the description and picture were the same thing
unless i am missing something and if i am i wish someone would tell me
before i have to buy something twice..

 

[Radicalgolfcarts]

They could of taken a pic of one, and be selling another!! Just my .02 But I could be wrong!
That is a pretty big price difference to be selling the same thing!!
Or I'm just getting my filler from the wrong place!!

 

[kajo]

i dont know but i am going to be pissed off if it is a piece of crap and i have to go buy a better one..
i would hope that if someone is selling a better product that they would have a accurate pic of it..it was the identical plastic looked like it was blue in color filler..same description word for word..
this is the only thing hard about starting a new hobby..weeding through all the crappy vendors.
we will see..

 

[doughboy43]

Not to knock any company or start a "who's better" conversation but I have done buisness with golfcarcatalog and found them to be a reputable dealer. I have a working relaionship with a large ezgo dealer in South Carolina and normaly get very good pricing on what buy but can beat his pricing sometimes. When looking for various things in the past, and having spent most of my working years in the retail buisness, I have found a great difference in pricing amoung different dealers.There are a lot of reasons for this from quanitiy buying to loss leader products.So one answer to your question is yes you have to do your homework as no one dealer is going to be cheaper on everything and yes there is some junk out there and sometimes the cheap price reflects this.This is where these forums come in handy!

 

[HotRodCarts]

I've bought a few things from golfcartcatalog and never had any problems with them. They have very good customer service also. I haven't bought anything from them in a while but I haven't heard anything bad about them.