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Belmont Resident · 10-17-2012, 04:47 AM

What is the saying , adapt & overcome?
Times change and you either change with the times or your left behind.
My wife started way back when she bought her first GPS maybe 7 or 8 years ago and has been doing this for all of her electronic devices since.
GPS, camera, Kindle, ATV & snowmobile parts, you name it and you can find it on-line and usually for a lot less.
I once talked to an employee of HK outside of work, he said people are crazy to buy from him at HK but they still do. He said even he buys his motorcycle parts on-line for a lot less then HK charges him and he gets a discount.
Although you do have to do your homework and spend some time searching and comparing prices and shipping charges. Amazon in many cases isn't always the cheapest.
I recently was giving my son 2 old pressure washers, one so old it wasn't worth fixing and the other I couldn't find a pump for.
While loading them in his truck I took down the pump model number and later punched in the number on google. Up came a company that sells all the replacement parts I need to repair the water pump.
Here I was giving away a perfectly good running engine and now I'm ordering replacement parts to fix it for $30.

10-17-2012, 04:47 AM	#28
Belmont Resident Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Belmont NH but prefer Jackman Maine Posts: 1,857 Thanks: 491 Thanked 410 Times in 251 Posts	Times change What is the saying , adapt & overcome? Times change and you either change with the times or your left behind. My wife started way back when she bought her first GPS maybe 7 or 8 years ago and has been doing this for all of her electronic devices since. GPS, camera, Kindle, ATV & snowmobile parts, you name it and you can find it on-line and usually for a lot less. I once talked to an employee of HK outside of work, he said people are crazy to buy from him at HK but they still do. He said even he buys his motorcycle parts on-line for a lot less then HK charges him and he gets a discount. Although you do have to do your homework and spend some time searching and comparing prices and shipping charges. Amazon in many cases isn't always the cheapest. I recently was giving my son 2 old pressure washers, one so old it wasn't worth fixing and the other I couldn't find a pump for. While loading them in his truck I took down the pump model number and later punched in the number on google. Up came a company that sells all the replacement parts I need to repair the water pump. Here I was giving away a perfectly good running engine and now I'm ordering replacement parts to fix it for $30. __________________ "better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, then a long life spent in a miserable way.."