"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 20:22:18 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

Why are you buying the parts from a disability shop if you can get them
cheaper elsewhere?

I'm not, except where the difference is negligible.

Then you're not being ripped off. The shop is just making it convenient
for you at a cost to them, then putting that on the price, just like it
costs me far more to buy food in a little corner shop than a supermarket
2 miles away.


I'm not talking about me though, am I? I'm well accustomed to the
internet. I have a vehicle to drive about in. I have retained sufficient
of my faculties to function fairly normally in the retail environment (OK
I can go a bit Victor Meldrew sometimes but apart from that...).

I'm talking about the many people we meet on our travels (you see being on
a mobility scooter is like having a dog; you get to talk to everyone,
especially other people on mobility scooters) who will lament the price
they've just had to pay for their battery or whatever. We spend a bit of
time in rural market towns where there might only be one disability shop
within reasonable distance. I've looked in their shop windows. It verges
on the criminal what they charge, sometimes.

That's because it has high overheads that have to be paid by a small number
of sales.

It's not reasonable to compare these prices with an internet seller who has
next to zero costs of sale who probably doesn't even have any stock in hand.

A bricks and mortar supplier, who has to hold stock, simply cannot compete
on that basis. That's not his fault.

tim