corvette tax.
Team Owner
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From: Kannapolis NC
What that means is, if you think it's so lucrative why don't you make some parts, market them, and after you get rich you can lower the price to whatever it costs you to get by. If they weren't selling, they wouldn't be making them.
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Nov 2011
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From: Vacaville California
That all being said..... Anyone have a front splitter that will fit a 2001 for sale real cheap
Safety Car
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From: Youngstown Ohio
I get what your saying, aftermarket Corvette parts are more costly than some others. But I'll also add this, anything that is selling isn't overpriced, if it was it wouldn't sell. This comes from a guy that bought a Callaway Honker, $500, to replace my Halltech Stinger, $199ish, to end up putting a SC on the car which has cost me all kinds a $$$$$$$$'s.
PC
This comes from a guy that bought a Callaway Honker, $500, to replace my Halltech Stinger, $199ish, to end up putting a SC on the car which has cost me all kinds a $$$$$$$$'s.PC
Race Director
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From: Norman Oklahoma - The Only State in the Union with no Blue Counties!
I get the impression that a lot of vendors aren't really doing the "setup for manufacturing" thing: they're farming out the production in batches that are too small to ever get to where the economies of scale bring the prices down.For better or worse, the Internet allows a very small operation to look like a much larger manufacturer even while it's still at the make-to-order stage.
You Sir are on the very edge of the naked truth. I do not wish to trash Vette vendors as a class, but have you noticed that you online buy from vendor X and the shipping lable says it came from vendor Y? Honesty and pricing would be a nice improvement!
Why don't the Vette Vendors just tell the truth?
I know a few Vette Vendors that do not play this game. JW Motoring and Double D Mods are among them. Your thread should light a fire under others,,,,,and they know who they are,,,,and we know who they are,,,,,,to price fairly the first time around! We all know Vette parts aren't free but we do know that Vette mods are not made of gold
Pricing around the internet proves my point!
Melting Slicks
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From: Anaheim CA
I have nothing against one-man operations...BTDT. But when every product sold is effectively a one-off, the price will be higher than necessary, sometimes to the point where straight-up custom may be more cost-effective.
Melting Slicks
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From: Anaheim CA
But where a car was made makes a lot less difference to the price of aftermarket stuff than how many of them were made: there are way more Toyotas (of pretty much any model) than there are Corvettes.
Burning Brakes
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From: Wichita Kansas
I don't mind paying a higher price for quality parts but some of the things I have bought for my Vette really truely aren't worth the cost of the shipping containers they came in, yet they still have 500% mark up on their prices easly...pretty much why im done modding my car now. Just gets old getting ripped off all the time you know?
