Was I right in doing this?
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Was I right in doing this?
Today, I went into a local performance shop (audio shop does not carry this particular product) to inquire about digital readout voltmeter guages. What I was doing was lokoing for the gauge, and getting a price quote. Well, she proceeds to pull out a varied plethora of books. Mainly, and Autometer book (that's the only brand she knows of evidently because of the way she was talking them up). Anyway, she finally finds what I am looking for (after I tell her about 10 times I want one with a digital readout, not a mechanical gauge). It's a Autometer Brand Cobalt Series 2 &1/16" gauge, blue readout, black face. Model/Item # 6391. So she proceeds to call the company she orders from (Quality S, which is what my buddy that used to own a local shop used). She gets "her" price on them, then she gets out the calculator to figure up my price. So after she adds the percentage of mark-up on it, then adds the tax and all she gets a grand total of $106, for that single gause, no mounting hardware, or anything, just the gauge and the wires that you hook up. I was thinking "Hmm.. little high if you ask me." They also have an amp temp gauge, which I was kind of interested in as well. So I ask about it as well. Also $106. So thats $212, before I even though about getting them. Kind of high, i keep thinking to myself. Then she asks if I needed a pod for them. So I went ahead and priced it. $150 for a 2 gauge frog eye pod (which is what I'll be using) that mounts on top of the dash and has a gauge on either side of the steering wheel. So thats a grand total of $372 for 2 gauges and a pod. I know that's high by this point, mainly cause I have priced the identical stuff online. So, being as I had listened to Ron White's CD earlier, and it was still fresh in my mind, I kindly asked her "how do you sleep at night you fu**ing *****?" Was I wrong in asking her that, being as she was price gouging me so badly?
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Rep Power: 346 Dude, she is a sales person...that is what she is supposed to do...but you have every right to negotiate or not buy it.
That was fu(kin rude if you ask me....maybe if you were nice she could have been your next baby's mamma...and then maybe she would have given you an extra 10% off
BTW, who the fu(k is Ron White?
That was fu(kin rude if you ask me....maybe if you were nice she could have been your next baby's mamma...and then maybe she would have given you an extra 10% off
BTW, who the fu(k is Ron White?
Originally Posted by PopcornPlaya
Today, I went into a local performance shop (audio shop does not carry this particular product) to inquire about digital readout voltmeter guages. What I was doing was lokoing for the gauge, and getting a price quote. Well, she proceeds to pull out a varied plethora of books. Mainly, and Autometer book (that's the only brand she knows of evidently because of the way she was talking them up). Anyway, she finally finds what I am looking for (after I tell her about 10 times I want one with a digital readout, not a mechanical gauge). It's a Autometer Brand Cobalt Series 2 &1/16" gauge, blue readout, black face. Model/Item # 6391. So she proceeds to call the company she orders from (Quality S, which is what my buddy that used to own a local shop used). She gets "her" price on them, then she gets out the calculator to figure up my price. So after she adds the percentage of mark-up on it, then adds the tax and all she gets a grand total of $106, for that single gause, no mounting hardware, or anything, just the gauge and the wires that you hook up. I was thinking "Hmm.. little high if you ask me." They also have an amp temp gauge, which I was kind of interested in as well. So I ask about it as well. Also $106. So thats $212, before I even though about getting them. Kind of high, i keep thinking to myself. Then she asks if I needed a pod for them. So I went ahead and priced it. $150 for a 2 gauge frog eye pod (which is what I'll be using) that mounts on top of the dash and has a gauge on either side of the steering wheel. So thats a grand total of $372 for 2 gauges and a pod. I know that's high by this point, mainly cause I have priced the identical stuff online. So, being as I had listened to Ron White's CD earlier, and it was still fresh in my mind, I kindly asked her "how do you sleep at night you fu**ing *****?" Was I wrong in asking her that, being as she was price gouging me so badly?
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Originally Posted by fonto
Dude, she is a sales person...that is what she is supposed to do...but you have every right to negotiate or not buy it.
That was fu(kin rude if you ask me....maybe if you were nice she could have been your next baby's mamma...and then maybe she would have given you an extra 10% off
BTW, who the fu(k is Ron White?
That was fu(kin rude if you ask me....maybe if you were nice she could have been your next baby's mamma...and then maybe she would have given you an extra 10% off
BTW, who the fu(k is Ron White?
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Rep Power: 0 Dakota Digital has some really sweet guages. Even ones to measure current.
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They even have these that integrate w/ Rockford amps ...
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They even have these that integrate w/ Rockford amps ...
