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Nicro's outrageous ripoff
As boaters, sail or power, we are accustomed to paying ridiculous prices
for just about anything that has the word "Marine" in its name and for which the identical item can be found at, say, Home Depot for much much less. But this has to take the cake: Nicro's price for a replacement battery for the 24-hour Powervent 3000. $29.99 at West Marine. Might be an improvement, actually. Earlier models required you to send the unit back to the factory to replace the battery at a cost very close to that of a new Powervent. This battery is no more than a standard rechargeable NiCad. About $2 at Radio Shack. The old units had the battery soldered in. I was able to modify a Radio Shack battery holder so that now all I need to do when the battery dies (they do, you know) was pluck out the dead one and plug in a new one, about five minutes and $2.00. Not only that, but I was able to replace a smaller capacity battery with a larger one. |
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"Gogarty" wrote in message ... As boaters, sail or power, we are accustomed to paying ridiculous prices for just about anything that has the word "Marine" in its name and for which the identical item can be found at, say, Home Depot for much much less. But this has to take the cake: Nicro's price for a replacement battery for the 24-hour Powervent 3000. $29.99 at West Marine. Might be an improvement, actually. Earlier models required you to send the unit back to the factory to replace the battery at a cost very close to that of a new Powervent. This battery is no more than a standard rechargeable NiCad. About $2 at Radio Shack. The old units had the battery soldered in. I was able to modify a Radio Shack battery holder so that now all I need to do when the battery dies (they do, you know) was pluck out the dead one and plug in a new one, about five minutes and $2.00. Not only that, but I was able to replace a smaller capacity battery with a larger one. Otoh, several years back when the cover on my plastic Nicro solar vent went adrift after about close to ten years, Nicro shipped me a new one gratis. John Cairns |
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Gogarty wrote:
As boaters, sail or power, we are accustomed to paying ridiculous prices for just about anything that has the word "Marine" in its name and for which the identical item can be found at, say, Home Depot for much much less. But this has to take the cake: Nicro's price for a replacement battery for the 24-hour Powervent 3000. $29.99 at West Marine. That's not Nicro's ripoff...that's West Marine's ripoff. I don't know what Nicro's list price is...but I do know that WM charges a whopping $17.95 for a 22-oz bottle of Raritan K.O. that has a factory list price of $11.90. And I've heard of even worse price gouging by WM than that. The moral: despite WM's efforts to eradicate 'em there are lot of marine retailers out there, so shop price! Even your local marine dock store is likely to be cheaper than WM these days. -- Peggie ---------- Peggie Hall Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987 Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor" http://www.seaworthy.com/store/custo...0&cat=6&page=1 |
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Peggie Hall wrote in
: that's West Marine's ripoff I'll second that. The SAME EXACT fuses Waste Marine sells for $7.30 a bubblepack are $1.79 at a local RETAIL hardware store down the street. That's over 4 times the price! -- Larry This jerk called my cellphone and was nasty. Continental Warranty -- MCG Enterprises -- Mepco- 24955 Pacific Coast HWY Suite C303 Malibu California 90265 888-244-0925 Fax: 310-456-8844 Email: Read about them he http://www.ripoffreport.com/view.asp...3&view=printer |
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Peggie Hall wrote:
The moral: despite WM's efforts to eradicate 'em there are lot of marine retailers out there, so shop price! Even your local marine dock store is likely to be cheaper than WM these days. Or, the opposite: In my locale where there is also a WM, the big & small competition within a large radius has used the WM pricing standard as a winch to ratchet themselves up to the same levels, and the prices are so identical it is easy to forget which store you drove to, once inside with the item in hand. A far cry from 8 yrs ago when we had a wide spread among them with WM at the top & all the others at 60% or much more below those levels. Sort of the inverse of the WalMart syndrome. |
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Here's another, and I am sure there arev plenty more.
Aqua Signal Series 25 stern light at West Marine: $23. At SailNet: under $10. At Defender: about $15. But SailNet charges more than $10 for shipping and Defender charges nearly $5 for shipping to my ZIP. So what's the price of instant gratification -- walking into the store and walking out with the item? Plus tax. |
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