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03-19-2016, 11:17 AM
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[QUOTE=1955 copper;1591805937]
In my opinion, you are wrong. There are Honda car clubs across the US, but I don't see the price of Honda Civic parts skyrocketing. And do you know why? Because there is a boatload of Civic car parts available everywhere you look.
Once again, it is supply and demand that drives prices up, not car clubs. Pretty simple concept.
Your logic doesn't make sense. The only way any organization like NCRS or any car club could drive up the cost of parts is if they were to buy up all those parts themselves and then have a monopoly.
OK one more time ! Clubs drive up the cost when a particular make or model becomes popular . I don't know of a international club for Ford PINTO"S ,but I could be wrong. If there were, the prices would be vary high to restore them ,but today you might find a field of them for sale costing peanuts . If people don't understand that CLUBS drive up the price of cars and parts I give up .And it's not only NCRS I don't hate NCRS or any other clubs. Just trying to explain why prices are so high
OK one more time ! Clubs drive up the cost when a particular make or model becomes popular . I don't know of a international club for Ford PINTO"S ,but I could be wrong. If there were, the prices would be vary high to restore them ,but today you might find a field of them for sale costing peanuts . If people don't understand that CLUBS drive up the price of cars and parts I give up .And it's not only NCRS I don't hate NCRS or any other clubs. Just trying to explain why prices are so high
Once again, it is supply and demand that drives prices up, not car clubs. Pretty simple concept.
03-19-2016, 03:08 PM
#23
Team Owner
Of course it is supply and demand; and I would opine that the chase for blue ribbons and the like by well-heeled owners could suck up some (many?) of the rarest parts and be an indirect result of the demand going up and hence prices.... Maybe not the main cause but certainly an ancillary one.
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03-19-2016, 07:48 PM
#24
Melting Slicks
The NCRS doesn't drive up the cost of parts. It may, however drive up the quantity demanded for NOS parts. This puts the market in disequilibrium. The market can only return to equilibrium by an adjustment in the quantity supplied. Absent an increase in the quantity supplied, equilibrium is achieved by an increase in price, which drives the quantity demanded down, achieving equilibrium. Temporarily.
Economics, dude...
Carter
Economics, dude...
Carter
03-19-2016, 08:11 PM
#25
Le Mans Master
YIKES!!
someone stole my corvette forum, and substituted some kind of alien quantum physics curriculum. what the hell!!??
someone stole my corvette forum, and substituted some kind of alien quantum physics curriculum. what the hell!!??
03-19-2016, 08:46 PM
#26
Race Director
03-19-2016, 10:00 PM
#28
Burning Brakes
Blaming NCRS for raising the cost of parts?!? Really? Is there an NCRS member with a gun to your head forcing you to pay a ridiculous price? I don't think so! It's just like anything else on the open market; supply and demand drives the cost of anything.
Blaming NCRS is just stupid!
Blaming NCRS is just stupid!
Last edited by scopeli; 03-19-2016 at 10:16 PM.
03-19-2016, 10:09 PM
#29
Race Director
03-19-2016, 10:21 PM
#30
Race Director
Getting back to the original topic, I think it's hilarious that people are selling purported NOS parts but they aren't including the so-called original packaging. So, the "NOS license plate screws" were on some guy's work bench for the last 50 years without any packaging and he decided to sell them now and have us take his word for it that they're NOS parts. One would have to pretty dumb to buy under such conditions.
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03-19-2016, 10:31 PM
#31
Race Director
Getting back to the original topic, I think it's hilarious that people are selling purported NOS parts but they aren't including the so-called original packaging. So, the "NOS license plate screws" were on some guy's work bench for the last 50 years without any packaging and he decided to sell them now and have us take his word for it that they're NOS parts. One would have to pretty dumb to buy under such conditions.
It has been said many times throughout the years: E. caveat emptor
Larry
Last edited by Powershift; 03-19-2016 at 10:33 PM.
03-19-2016, 11:02 PM
#32
Race Director
[QUOTE=warrenmj;1591806143]
In my opinion, you are wrong. There are Honda car clubs across the US, but I don't see the price of Honda Civic parts skyrocketing. And do you know why? Because there is a boatload of Civic car parts available everywhere you look.
Once again, it is supply and demand that drives prices up, not car clubs. Pretty simple concept.
what car club other than the ncrs places such a great emphasis on cars being 100% original, just as they rolled off the assembly line?
In my opinion, you are wrong. There are Honda car clubs across the US, but I don't see the price of Honda Civic parts skyrocketing. And do you know why? Because there is a boatload of Civic car parts available everywhere you look.
Once again, it is supply and demand that drives prices up, not car clubs. Pretty simple concept.
what car club other than the ncrs places such a great emphasis on cars being 100% original, just as they rolled off the assembly line?
03-19-2016, 11:26 PM
#33
Le Mans Master
The club is an organization made up of members. The only thing the club does is the things it's members want it to do. If members were not interested in originality of old corvettes, no one would join and become a member. You're putting the cart before the horse. If no one cared about the originality of old corvettes, there would be no NCRS.
03-19-2016, 11:51 PM
#34
Race Director
Getting back to the original topic, I think it's hilarious that people are selling purported NOS parts but they aren't including the so-called original packaging. So, the "NOS license plate screws" were on some guy's work bench for the last 50 years without any packaging and he decided to sell them now and have us take his word for it that they're NOS parts. One would have to pretty dumb to buy under such conditions.
Louie, couldn't have said it any better! Of course Goodwood Green car owners are the smartest of all Corvette owners. 
But then again, there only a handful of us left. 
Rick
03-20-2016, 06:40 AM
#36
Team Owner
Getting back to the original topic, I think it's hilarious that people are selling purported NOS parts but they aren't including the so-called original packaging. So, the "NOS license plate screws" were on some guy's work bench for the last 50 years without any packaging and he decided to sell them now and have us take his word for it that they're NOS parts. One would have to pretty dumb to buy under such conditions.
03-20-2016, 08:29 AM
#37
Le Mans Master
This may be far fetched but I have considered that prices like this on items that have sold may represent a way to discretely launder the money from purchases that are illegal. Just a thought.
03-20-2016, 01:31 PM
#38
Race Director
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