Swindleries

BJ4U said:
Could be exchange rate fluctuation or rounding errors but its not far off.

Send him a PM his light is on GREEN :D

Surprised he's not being back yet :(
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Sorry, been out to collect a Mastervolt Battery Charger from the most expensive Chandlers in Portugal.

€260.00 including p&p. Arrived within 24 hours and chandlers phoned me to tell me it had arrived.

UK cheapest price I could find - £245.00 + p&p.
 
PeterGibbs said:
If you want to stay in business and volumes are down but costs are up, what else can any business do but hoist the gross margin?

Just wandering around my local supermarket yesterday I drew breath, deeply, at what is happening to food prices - not a nice one to behold. Inflation is on the march....!

PWG
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Interesting that other people have noticed.....RELENTLESS increase in food costs- or subtle down-sizing of quantities? I reckon people will stop buying random luxuries at some point - where is it?
 
pvb,

At the moment the hammerkauf site keeps putting me on to the CB 36. However, here is the Google listing which gives their price.

c/f SailGB.


WAECO CoolMatic CB 40 CB-040 - Hammerkauf.de - [ Traduzir esta página ]
WAECO CoolMatic CB 40. too detailed article informations · rate now. instead 749,01 EUR only 711,56 EUR you save 37,45 EUR ...
www.hammerkauf.de/.../WAECO-CoolMatic-CB-36-CB-036-en-language-en.html - Em cache
 
pvb said:
Ah, the CB40 which many chandleries, sorry "swindleries", sell for around £600. If you've gone out of your way to find the highest UK price so you can post about "swindleries", it's rather sad.

And if you search around, you should find it for less than £600 in the UK.
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If that is what you wish to believe - ok.

However, do you agree with accuracy of the figures I presented?
 
blueglass said:
replaced our rm69 seats and lids for £45.00 each last year and thought that was a rip off! £90 is ridiculous. Am interested though in the B&Q ones - I didn't think they would stock a non domestic type that would fit an RM69 - how were they branded?
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Hi

There are two sizes for the RM69's. Small and large. The small ones were originally delivered and didn't fit so the chandlers phoned their supplier who said there was only one size so ours couldn't have been the original RM69's. I looked on the supplier's web site which stated quite clearly there were two sizes available. Basically when we were told the price for the larger size I said "no thanks" and found that the B & Q ones fitted with no problem. Oh, just for info, the smaller ones which we sent back were £60.00 EACH!!!

Pays to shop around.

dansar
 
Nearly everything I've bought for the boat has come from the internet, a lot from ebay but also used smaller, more specialised ones, nut & bolt store for stainless bits & pieces, Penguin Engineering for a shower/tap, others for interscrews, LEDs, etc. Ebay is the best place, everything from a fiver/freepost for 2 siphon pumps that are ten quid each in chandlers to £700 for a full webasto airtop 2000 or Eber D2 kit, can pay double that elsewhere I'm sure. Some chandlers are much more reasonably priced than others, I particularly liked the one at Gosport Premier...
 
In a former life I was a chandler... it was a nice business to be in but we had a few moaners....mostly teachers. I had my first row with one when he got huffy when I refused to give him discount on a can of varnish (Blue Peter varnish in those days was 7 shillings and sixpence....37.5pence for you kids for a pint).
As I said I liked the business and most of my customers but it was always a struggle and every day somebody would come in for something you had never sold and that was a situation that never seemed to change however much stock you held.
I do not think I have ever seen a really rich chandler but I can think of dozens that have gone bust over the years as have virtually all the great wholesalers that used to dominate the marine industry.
I enjoy haggling but I am a customer of chandleries nowadays because, even though I know how and where to buy cheaper, I would rather have them there to hand when I need them .
It is the Oscar Wilde thing about knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
 
Croc said:
In a former life I was a chandler... it was a nice business to be in but we had a few moaners....mostly teachers. I had my first row with one when he got huffy when I refused to give him discount on a can of varnish (Blue Peter varnish in those days was 7 shillings and sixpence....37.5pence for you kids for a pint).
As I said I liked the business and most of my customers but it was always a struggle and every day somebody would come in for something you had never sold and that was a situation that never seemed to change however much stock you held.
I do not think I have ever seen a really rich chandler but I can think of dozens that have gone bust over the years as have virtually all the great wholesalers that used to dominate the marine industry.
I enjoy haggling but I am a customer of chandleries nowadays because, even though I know how and where to buy cheaper, I would rather have them there to hand when I need them .
It is the Oscar Wilde thing about knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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I do agree with you.
Boaty stuff is expensive. So blame the chandlery.
We have a good chanderly at shamrock and having it there is a plus point when choosing a marina IMHO.
Yet people behave in a way that will force the reduction of the choice available to them.
Eg the woman that went in having bought all her oilies on line, buying only the boots locally so she could try them on.
Or the people that buy their chart plotter online, expecting the local chandlery to have the screws to fit it.
Don't be ripped off, but understand the value of buying locally.
 
chinita said:
Thank you for that link.

The site is on page six of Google. I don't normally persevere beyond page three and I did not today.
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Not sure what you were Googling for - if I Google for waeco cb40, it's at the top of the first page on my screen.

You'll also find that the Google Shopping facility (click on "Shopping" at the top left of the Google screen) is useful for finding online prices.
 
pvb said:
Not sure what you were Googling for - if I Google for waeco cb40, it's at the top of the first page on my screen.

You'll also find that the Google Shopping facility (click on "Shopping" at the top left of the Google screen) is useful for finding online prices.
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Try Googling waeco coolmatic cb40 - as I did, as this is what the fridge is called.
It is on page six.
 
chinita said:
Try Googling waeco coolmatic cb40 - as I did, as this is what the fridge is called.
It is on page six.
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I just tried that, and Marine SuperStore's result comes up on page 2.

You do use google.co.uk, rather than google.com, don't you? It also helps to click in the left-hand column the "Pages from the UK" filter.
 
OK

In defence of purveyors of yacht bits. I have a very good relationship with my local (to the boat) chandler. His price promise is to match what I can buy on the web. Fair enough. He also gives a discount to the local club members when we walk in on a saturday morning with the 'can I have a new one of these' senario.

If he cannot get it and supply to me for the same as I can buy from the web he tells me where to buy it from. No hard feelings. Normally it is because someone is selling old stock cheaper than he can buy in at or a wholesaler trading direct.

My side of the bargin is I buy everything possible through him. Have refitted 2 boats this way and am now doing the 3rd. It is a good working relationship. I don't want to loose him because life would be more inconvenient without a local chandler.
 
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