How is it
I can buy the same german made proximity switch from my source for $18 that costs $157 from the machine tool builder?
And why is it that there are still people stupid enough to buy them from the builder?
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Tuesday 21 Aug 2012
Chinese part that the source got out of a container load that bypassed Germany?
Or fell off the back of a truck in Chicago?
No, these are actual German made parts- pretty high quality, too- prox switches we use by the dozens, and I’ve been using the $18 one now for years without trouble.
A healthy misunderstanding of warranty benefits and/or fear of liability?
Nobody every got fired for buying IBM. (Sadly.)
These days I never buy anything that I don’t run the part number through Mr. Google first. If nothing else it’ll keep the vendor of choice honest.
I think if you didn’t have that disparity you wouldn’t have the Occupy movement, or even liberals in general. We conservatives talk a good game about free markets and salt-of-the-earth small businessmen, but those small businessmen are just as human as anyone else, with cheaters and users as likely to be found there as in the labor movement. Regulation comes when ethics are forgotten or ignored.
You buy the $157 part when you’re on a “cost plus” contract.
lol
No! you buy the $18 part and you get a RECEIPT for the $157 part!
Stretch nailed it. Who cares what it cost if the cost gets kicked down a level, and they don’t audit the work and it won’t lose the contract?
Same mindset behind “who cares what the procedure costs as long as Blue Cross covers it.”
Heh. $175 for a name-brand blower for a kitchen stove exhaust fan.
Remove the motor, check the label, turn on intertubes.
Same motor for $59, delivered.
Who knew?
This is the psychology of “keeping it Factory (all Hail Factory, praise be unto Factory).
Bulltwaddle, if it specs out, bolts up and don’t blow the board when you turn it on, run it.
Not anywhere near the prices, but the fairing on my Honda uses some plastic trim clips in places, and from a dealer they cost about $3.50 each. Found a clip from a aftermarket vendor that looks identical when installed, fits perfectly, and costs about $6 for ten.
They’re also less likely to break in handling.
yep, the ability to find trhe cheap functional alternative (or the same or more expensive MORE functional alternative) is what separates the men from the boys.
And crowbars, of course.