Long island corvette supply?

[Brandon T.]

Why do they have a $20 minimum purchase price? what sense does that make other than forcing you to buy something you don't really need in order to just buy what you need?

you still pay shipping on top of whatever you buy, found that weird.

[Dan H.]

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Hi Brandon, it's the credit card companies that set extra fees on small amount purchases, wipes out any profit on a small order, just keep a 'wish list' and give them a better order, also saves alot on handling etc.

[Tom H.]

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I would just say that paying help to talk to customers, pack the part and ship it out would require at least an order of 20.00 to make any money.

Dan has a good point on the credit card deal too.

[Thomas H.]

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Years ago I had an experience with a company (non car related) that had a $100 minimum order. I needed one connector that was priced at $95. They insisted that I needed to up my order to cover the minimum. I didn't want to. I even talked to the manager and told him to just charge me $100 for the connector, he wouldn't do it. They stuck to their policy, I bought the connector somewhere else.

I understand the practice as I apply it in my business also. There is a point where it costs more to take and process the order then what is made from the order. If you keep selling things and making less then what it costs to process, you won't be in business for very long.

Tom

[Dan M.]

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The $100.00 minimum is directly proportional to the lack of quality competition they have on the products they sell. If ten other vendors could duplicate the availability and the quality of what LIC sells, they wouldn't have the minimum limit.


Kinda like oppurtunistic price gouging. They do it because they can! The ways of business I guess.

[John D.]

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Why do they have a $20 minimum purchase price? what sense does that make other than forcing you to buy something you don't really need in order to just buy what you need?

you still pay shipping on top of whatever you buy, found that weird.

Brandon, Since I have a mail order catalog let me tell you why LI has a lousy 20.00 minimum purchase.
Filling catalog orders is a lot of work. Then most of the orders are credit cards. Processing a credit card and all the paper work involved takes a lot of time. Then there is the fee involved that the companies charge us for each transaction.
Now if a customer would come in person and pay cash them a buck would be enough. But to do a mail order I feel that Richie is 100% justified in his request.
John D

[Jim D.]

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I wish I could place an order with LICS for less than $20. All my orders are at least several hundred, sometimes thousands.

[Patrick N.]

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BTW,
The practice of mandating a minimum order price for a credit card purchase is in direct violation of most credit card policies / guidelines and is not allowed unless you own a business that does not operate full year. Seasonal shops can require minimum purchase prices, year round business cannot.

Overhead / operating cost is typically baked into the sale price and not defined as a minimum order price. A higher price for credit and discount price for cash on the same item is an effective way to address the issue.

[Domenic T.]

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I agree with what is said about the cost of small orders BUT lets talk about how MUCH they make on other orders.
I have spent mega bucks with LIcorvette and I have to kiss their ---- to buy any thing or ask a question (God forbid).
I think there is a fine line there someplace as to keeping LOYAL customers, a give & TAKE.
They sent me the wrong trans mount and I tried to tell them that It cost me about 4 hours to find out it was for the side pipe car and packaged wrong. Installed, it would jam the pipes up to the top of the X member on my 67.
All I wanted to do was help them avoid doing that to another poor customer. They cut me off about 3 words into the sentence ever time I tried to talk. They said something like "never in 23 years". I bought one from NAPA 4 bucks cheaper.

This can be an east coast/ west coast thing, but the bottom line is that they know we need them and they can set the rules.

DOM

[Stan E.]

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Overall we should be glad that they exist! stan emert

[Jim D.]

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Overall we should be glad that they exist! stan emert

I agree. Never had a problem with them and they have the largest inventory and fastest shipping around.

[Ronald L.]

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Anywhere else in the world any and all merchants do the same because of the MCV charges. The MCV's can't say anything about it.

Pool that order or buy the same part off the ccebay site and that $5 part will cost $20

[Stephen B.]

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There are vendors out there that require a $50.00 minimum order.A vendor that has always been corgal and answered all my questions is Paragon. They also have listened when I gave them suggestions on how to improve the part.
Stephen Barrett (21558) 59,66,71,73

[David A.]

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You guys should try ordering parts from LIC to Australia. Whilst they do ship to us they will only send UPS instead of USPS becaue the dont have the ability to complete the customs declararion electronically.

UPS international shipping costs more than the parts are worth. Thank goodness are currency is now worth the same as yours.....

When you ask them a question via email you are lucky to get a one line response.

[Jack H.]

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Yes, a number of catalog houses view international customers as a 'nuissance' instead of valuable assets!

The policy on shipping exclusively via UPS/FedEx has several origins that aren't really valid anymore.

(1) Whether true of false, they observed incidents where the recepient claimed he never received the item that was ordered and paid for (could well be true in 3rd-world nations). And, without a single, end-to-end, carrier responsible for transit, the merchant had no way to provide proof of delivery...

(2) It used to be that if you wanted to ship via USPS AND you wanted your traffic department to work to a common daily completion schedule (say 5 PM), your alternative for using USPS was to put an employee out on wheels to stand in line at the counter of the local post office. That was a waste of labor (labour as you blokes say)...

(3) If the customer wanted in-transit delivery information, the seller was essentially blind when using USPS service vs. that of the commercial carriers.

The above 'excuses' aren't really true anymore and #3 is (in-transit visibility) is improving every day. That really depends on how good/modern the recepient nation's PTT/postal authority is in terms of coordinating both customs and local delivery status on a parcel by parcel basis.

Today, shipping USPS from the US to the Netherlands yields in-transit visibility that's every bit as good as either UPS or FedEx!