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Wombat 280


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Have just been blow away with the prices of various after market bits for vehicles.

Decided I wanted, not necessarily needed, a pair of half decent driving lights  so started with the local guys and prices ranges  up and down the scale like the opera house orchestra .

Eventually decided on a pair of 150 watt units from a local  at $248.00, not that overpriced  in comparison to others shown  I thought.  As per usual  with local suppliers didn't hold  them in stock but could get them in . I decided  not to bother I'd  look around further and get back at a later date .

Browsing around the net, not for lights , came across the  identical spec light,  right down to the box they came in from another supplier at believe or not buy now price of  $29.00 Pr .

Who said Ned was Dead

Pays to shop around  I 'd dare say the local guy may well have obtained them from the same source and come in sucker 


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That is obscene.

Ned kelly, as you say is well and truly alive.

This a fact on whatever you buy.  Good for you Wombat at finding the same item for the correct price and not the one well and truly inflated by your local dealer.

No matter what you are intending on purchasing, it always pays to shop around, and by that I mean on ebay and every resource available to us.  Why should the fat cats get fatter at our expense.   Money is not easy to come by at our age and every dollar saved counts.  It would appear that becuase we are now seniors, the general population tends to think it can take advantage of us, so thats a tick on the wall for Sen Citizens.

I know that prices vary from dealer to dealer but that is bloody rediculous.

Good on ya.



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Had a similar experience with Supercheap. They had some 6" 250watt sealed beams "on special" for $80 each...... Looked at them and thought that they were tres cool .... Waltzed around the corner to Autopro and exacary the same thing was on special for $49.95 a pair....

Yep only thing you can do is price everything, challenge every price and view every transaction with scepticism. It's unfortunatlery true, everyone is after every cent they can screw from you...

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Yet another one for Super Cheap . Note those animal scarer thingo's that you fit to the bumper bar to piss the kangaroos off on the counter at the grand price of $25.00. Thought that's a bit rich , when they came out a few years back the $2.00 shops were flogging them for $1.50.

In BCF which is the Boating Camping and Fishing arm of Super Cheap displayed on the same card for $5.00 in either chrome of black.

That's what you get with centralized purchasing power , a bigger rip off

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With all you folk on shopping around.When we started looking at the COBB Cookers prices ranged from $259.00 at BCF to $239.00 at Rays Outdoor.Waited till last weekend while at the Syney show.Picked one up for $159.00.Left enough change to get a special on the Porta Potti for $93.00.Happy as a pig in ****.

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yep it really does pay to just "nose around a bit" it goes with the purchase of everything cars, tellys, fridges dont pay the first price stated, do a bit of ringing around and leg work, it will save you thousands

having said that I grabbed the first cobb I seen, paid top dollar for it, but I'm not grizzling

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The Gnome wrote:

With all you folk on shopping around.When we started looking at the COBB Cookers prices ranged from $259.00 at BCF to $239.00 at Rays Outdoor.Waited till last weekend while at the Syney show.Picked one up for $159.00.Left enough change to get a special on the Porta Potti for $93.00.Happy as a pig in ****.


A Porta Potti, just keep your aim on target of you will be in the POO...LOL

None the less a good piece of kit, especially as a bloke matures.......

 



-- Edited by Basil Faulty on Friday 1st of May 2009 11:46:54 AM

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