Corporate "price gouging"

[TractorTodd]

Corporate \"price gouging\"

Why would a part (3426850M2) sold by two suppliers (AGCO- 237.37) (A & I-116.10) vary so much in price? This part is manufactured in the same plant and identical in every aspect except for the name on the packaging. Can anyone tell me why?

 

[beenthere]

Re: Corporate \"price gouging\"

I'd guess one wants your business, and the other isn't interested in stocking that part. I'd buy from the cheaper one if it is the same part.

Fortunately you have a choice. Worse case would be the Gov't saying that the prices had to be the same and the one outfit couldn't undersell the other. That happens, and I can think of another big country where there was no competition and the Gov't put the price on everything.

 

[JerryG]

Re: Corporate \"price gouging\"

How do you know that they are made at the same place and to the same specs?

 

[frank_f15]

Re: Corporate \"price gouging\"

are you sure they are the same part? and made to the same spec? if they are go with the cheaper one. sometimes NAME BRAND cost a whole lot more than a comprable off name part which is made by the same co.

 

[JerryG]

Re: Corporate \"price gouging\"

What kind of bearing is that?

 

[Bird]

Re: Corporate \"price gouging\"

Of course I don't know about the bearings in question, but I do know the different prices for the same item have not been unusual in the past, and I'm sure now, too. Many many years ago my mother worked in a blue jean factory and while the jeans were all exactly the same, different ones had different labels sewn on them and sold for vastly different prices. And as a teenager, I learned the same thing happened in many cases with auto parts. One example in the mid-50s was points for a Chevrolet (pretty cheap) and for a Cadillac (pretty expensive) and they were identical in every way, except they came in different boxes with different prices. And many other parts were the same way.

 

[tc33brad]

Re: Corporate \"price gouging\"

I remember back in the seventies [a fete in its self] I needed a winshield wiper motor for 68 Pontiac Bonneville - the very same GM part number in a Buick and a Cadillac cost more. The only way I knew was that my brother-in-law had a service station and some kind of parts book that would cross reference just about everything on a vehicle.

 

[KirkMcD]

Re: Corporate \"price gouging\"

You're not just buying the item. You are also buuying the reputation of the company with its name on the box. You might be getting a better warranty from the named version or you might get better support if it breaks.

 

[Indydirtfarmer]

Re: Corporate \"price gouging\"

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( You're not just buying the item. You are also buuying the reputation of the company with its name on the box. You might be getting a better warranty from the named version or you might get better support if it breaks. )</font>

Along those same lines, you're buying their overwhelming overhead, insurance liabilaty(and it's associated cost) probably a big union contract with it's employees, the cost of paying "inherited" pension plans from all the smaller companies bought out along the way to make them the "corperate giant" they are today....

If it TRUELY is the same exact part at a MUCH lower price, go for it.

 

[TractorTodd]

Re: Corporate \"price gouging\"

This is a front wheel bearing on a MF 360 4WD. There are two per side. I have already purchased and installed two from A&I. Both the original and replacement bearings were manufactured in France.

 

[Av8r3400]

Re: Corporate \"price gouging\"

I remember reading in a aircraft magazine where a bearing (Timmken, I believe) was used on both a Cessna 210 and a Lexus automobile for very different applications (landing gear vs power window motor) Same bearing, same manufacturer, same manufacturer's part number, but the LEXUS part was $75 and the Cessna part was $15. Its all about packaging and demand.

(Now Goodyear belts which are common to aircraft and autos, there the liability issue calls for an additional letter on the aircraft p/n and a price several times more expensive over the auto, otherwise the same exact belt. Just don't let the FAA see the wrong one!! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif )

 

[getut]

Re: Corporate \"price gouging\"

It's the same way with my Ford F250 Powerstroke. Buy many of the parts from the Ford stealership and pay with arms and legs. Buy from the IH dealer.. same parts and they are usually 1/2 price or less.

 

[Tractors4u]

Re: Corporate \"price gouging\"

I was needing a part for a grey market Hinomoto tractor. Hinomoto built tractors for Allis Chalmers and Massey Ferguson. I went to the Massey dealer and was quoted $897 for one part, and it would take 2 days to get in. I go to the AGCO (was Allis Chalmers) dealer and the same part was $177 but they were out of stock and it would have to be back ordered. AGCO owns Massey so what gives? I waited 2 weeks for the $177 part and then I was told that they were completely out and it would have to come from Japan. I ended up getting it through a friend of mine directly from Japan for $90 shipping included.