so I'm gonna do a little rant hold on one second let me get this off of there
because my name address is on there and I don't want people sending me free
stuff that would be terrible all righty this is a I guess a mini rant
about a replacement parts it's ten twelve fifteen years ago that
was a place to go for parts you know that it was one of the few places that
had everything he needed for parts and they had schematics that you could look
at and pick your part and it gave you part numbers and they were expensive but
of the convenience of having a you know huge website with every part known to
man okay now it's now it's a dozen or more years later and they still have the
original website that they started with it's absolutely not
iPhone friendly they don't have an iPhone app you've got a search high and
low to sign-in on your iPhone and who doesn't use an iPhone now or not not
necessarily an iPhone but a smartphone so their website is for a computer and
not a smartphone you're a year and a half maybe two years ago I was looking
at a replacement parts for a part and I found it and I put it in my cart okay
and I didn't order it I just put it in my cart and there went back I found it
somewhere else for a Half Price all right phone call again
so I didn't order this I just left it in my cart and a year and a half later I go
back and I order these two parts and this shows up with it and they've
charged me for it and it's $10 part so I just got off the phone with them and
it's gonna cost me like seven bucks to ship a $10 part back so all I'll get is
three bucks so I'm gonna end up hanging this I'll use it for something
three dollars it's worth plenty in my in my stock 14 days it's up to get these
two parts 14 days the parts that I got two days ago took about 16 days to get
and they didn't send me all the parts but they charged me for all the parts it
was clutch parts and I was supposed to get a an eclipse or a c-clip I call it a
c-clip some people call it a eclip and some people call it a circlet but I've
always called it a c-clip and basically it's a snap ring that goes on the
outside of a groove post instead of the inside so they didn't send me that with
a clutch well you can't hold the clutch on without the c-clip so I called them
and asked him where the c-clip was they said oh the c-clip has been discontinued
I said well you charge me for it so they're gonna refund the money and it
could take up to 45 days to get my money back
this ereplacementparts.com could care less about the fact that they've sent
you apart you didn't order or charge you for a part they no longer stock or even
sell and yeah what a mess ereplacementparts.com eBay Amazon I mean
here's that here's an example I looked at ear replacement parts this lawnmower
that I got the Cub Cadet I'm gonna replace all three belts well I didn't
know the built numbers but I know ear replacement parts and you can blow them
up and not only can you get the you know look at the blow-up but you can get the
part numbers so I wrote the part number down on a replacement the belts were
about 35 bucks apiece at replacement and on Amazon I bought Kevlar belts
high-quality belts for about 12 bucks apiece that's the difference ear
replacement parts is twice what everybody else charges for the same
exact parts and their shipping is hi I'm Prime member so most everything I buy on
Amazon is free shipping and there's just too many other places to order parts up
there to ever go back to ear replacement parts and now since I'm talking let me
tell you the little story about this cub cadet gonna get comfortable the guy I
bought the cub cadet from asked me if I would let him know what was wrong with
it when I fixed it because he had messed with it for a year or more and you know
couldn't figure out what was wrong with it so I said sure so yesterday I sent
him a text telling him what was wrong with it
and one text led to another and eventually he said he felt like he got
taken advantage of well he was asking 375 for this now keep in mind it's an on
running lawnmower he doesn't know what's wrong with it I don't know what's wrong
with it it could be something simple it could be something unfixable when I
buy something that's not running I'm gambling my money that I may be able to
get it running and most often I can but there are times when I've spent good
money on something that turned out to be unfixable and the best I could get out
of it was parts for something else so it's a gamble on my end when I buy
something not running he won 375 for that lawnmower and I offered him 200 and
a chainsaw that I had on Craigslist for 75 bucks so he took it so basically he
got 275 for it and really I had 10 dollars under the chainsaw so I gave 210
dollars for it well anyway we had a few texts
back and forth and he he felt like he was taken advantage of and after a few
more texts I realized that he was just the typical whiny millennial and I said
you know what I will bring this back to you
you just gave my money back and a couple of dollars for fixing it and we'll call
it quits I'd want nothing to do with I don't want
to go through the rest of my life having someone think I took advantage of them
and anyway I offered to give it back get my money back pay me a few dollars for
fixing it and hauling it and you know we'll call it a day and anyway he didn't
want to I just he said no I've already got a lawn mower and I just totally
totally blown away that he he didn't understand that people are not going to
buy a broken lawn mower and put a lot of money into something that quite likely
are just as likely may not work I mean it's a 50/50 crapshoot you know for most
people I have a little more experience in small engines so I have a greater
chance of getting them fixed but I still run the risk of not getting them fixed
because I'm not an expert and you know I was really happy when I got it fixed and
really proud of myself and then and then when he said that he felt like he got
took advantage of just knocked the wind right out of my sails man I would really
want to just give the damn thing back to him and get my money back and forget
about it and anyway I thought about that all night last night and even this
morning I woke up thinking about to me this is a I won't go I won't read all
the text messages but it was the typical millennial attitude that it was okay
selling it to me if I couldn't get it fixed but when I got it fixed easy he
was not happy about that and on the other hand if I got home and the motor
was blown I couldn't fix it do you think he'd give me my money back
he'll know so he's okay with me taking a chance with $200 and anyway that's too
much talking 7 minutes of talking sorry about that
your replacement sucks never again and next time I buy
something broken from somebody and they want me to text them and let them know
what's what's wrong with it yeah fat chance have a good day off
stay tuned for eggs
and now for mine oh yeah just a little bit of butter
Bon Appetit