1442 lower price

Re: 1442 lower price

TDaniel

>+Dennis, I would advise you to buy locally even though you might not get the best price. Buy from a good dealer and let him have enough profit to stay in business. There is more to a good lathe than iron and sheet metal. You will likely have some problems with this lathe, no big problems, but some problems. Things like broken banjos and such and when they occur, you want service/warranty replacement without arguing to get it. To keep you going, you need a lathe from a company that supports their agents as well as an agent that values you as a customer. Service costs money and must be paid for from profit; thus, no profit/no service. With the advent of Internet shopping, service is going down the tube because there is always someone who will sell an item a little cheaper. My advice would be to shop Internet prices and print them out and take them to a local dealer and see how close he can come to the price you have found; then buy from the local dealer.

TD

Re: 1442 lower price

Fred in NC

>And....

that way those stores will not close !!!

Re: 1442 lower price

Fog Tanner

>A very good reason not to shop at Wallymart....

Re: 1442 lower price

Fog Tanner

>Dennis,

What Terry says is so true. I bought my first lathe from a local woodworking shop in Houston, The Cutting edge. Steve, the owner, is a woodturner and trys to keep his prices reasonable. He is always supportive in our woodturning club with donations. I got a fair price on the 16" steel bed Delta and he made a profit.

When I had some issues with the speed controller during coring bowls I was able to get this resolved. I walked into Steve's place one day and he told me a new controller was on its way. Delta had taken action on the controller and needed someone to test the new one. Since I was one of the few people coring bowls, Steve told them he had someone to test the unit. As a result I received a new controller, which works great. I would never have gotten this over the net or one of the Walmart woodworking stores.

As a result of not trying to retire off of every sale, Steve is able to keep the price of turning tools very reasonable. I know I have bought more in tools than the cost of the lathe. Its a two way street, I get the things I want/need at a resonable price and the local merchant makes a profit and stays in business so I can buy more "stuff"....

Years ago I saw the model airplane business die, when the big mailorder places killed them on price. A lot went out of business. So there you were on a Saturday afternoon and you needed a prop to go flying on Sunday and the model shop was out of business. Can't fly this Sunday and maybe the next....but when you do get to, you can knowing you saved a whole ten cents on that prop - not counting the extra $2.50 in shipping.

Woodturning, like a lot of other industries, is not very large. You kill off the little guy and you are left at the whims of the large mailorder or internet vendors. And that almost killed model R/C aircraft..