Wouldn't ya think?

[Chris A]

That buying parker hose from a parker store would be the most cost effective? I was getting my new solution line fitted with ends and bend restrictors and I asked the guy behind the counter how much an entire reel would be. He proudly told me that if I bought the whole five hundred feet I would get a screaming deal at $1.96/foot... I think ill keep buying it online.

 

[Nate The Great]

I ask the car dealers the same thing.... They keep giving me retail cost....

If they discount or sell it way cheaper then else where, why would anyone want to be their distributor... Make friends with a worker and get it close to cost...

 

[Shawn Forsythe]

Chris,

The Parker Stores sales numbers are judged on profit margins using a Jobber/Wholesale price, rather than parent company cost. This motivates the stores to sell as competitively as an ordinary retail outlet. Manufacturers (OEM's) and line distributors usually are afforded a deeper discount, and being independent can sell at any margin they see fit, even to the point of having "loss leaders".

We had a Coke machine at one of my employers. Do you think we bought our stock from Coca Cola? Heck no, there are way too many high-volume establishments making their Coke a loss leader, to buy from Coke.

 

[jcooper]

Chris, where you getting it now?

 

[Chris A]

I forgot where I got the last 100 foot but I paid the same 2 bucks a foot and only had to buy a hundred foot of it. Mighta been interlink when they had it on sale? Was a few months ago just got around to putting ends on it.

 

[Dolly Llama]

I got a call a few days ago from a guy i know who's wife works at Parker in Ravenna

he left a message he got me some 1035HT.
I asked him about it a couple/three years ago LOL

I haven't called him back cause i still have 100ft new unused hanging in the pole barn
(and he's a little bit of a flake)

I'll call and see what he wants for it if you want,Chris


..L.T.A.

 

[Chris A]

Yeah if its cheap enough Ill buy it, I don't neccesarily need it right now either.