[urq] Audi's Fire Sale

[Michael Hopton]

and a third, because they don't want to see Audi destroy them - which is what they want to do

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From: urq-bounces at audifans.com on behalf of Martin Pajak
Sent: Sat 7/15/2006 8:50 PM
To: James Howard
Cc: urq at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [urq] Audi's Fire Sale



James,

Since the sale was in force starting 1st of July.. you will find that most
of these parts will be NLA very soon.. people are buying them out like mad
for two reasons.. to have a spare and to make profit.

Cheers

--
Martin Pajak

http://www.quattro.ca

1982 Audi Ur-quattro (50,000 mi) new project
1983 Audi Ur-quattro (85,000 mi) Concourse d'Elegance
1985 Audi Ur-quattro (212,000 km) Euro spec. import mit 3B :)
1987 Audi 4000s quattro (205,000 km) wintervagen mit 7A :)


> James Howard
> From speaking to a guy in Germany who has bought parts off that list at
> those prices from a German dealer, it seems that you don't have to be a
> member of anything to buy at those prices. What you DO need is a dealer
> network who co-operates with the intention of the "mother ship" to provide
> these discounts.
> Audi UK does not do this, it seems AoA does not either.
>
> In the US & UK, our own dealer networks are becoming an ever increasing
> obstacle to keeping our cars on the road. What I find most annoying &
> worrying, is that they still are becoming a bigger obstacle for us, even
> when the parent company is trying to turn things around.
>
> I tried ordering a part off the list through the UK dealer network - it's
> the 20V style steering wheel, listed on the list as list price 409euros,
> discount price 245euros - the UK dealer wants 650euros!!
> I contacted a guy in Germany who confirmed that price (245) with the
> German
> dealer, but was also told it's NLA
>
> Makes me wonder how many of the parts on that list are NLA - what's the
> point of discounting an NLA part, unless you just want to band that list
> around the place to show what good guys you are for PR purposes...
>
> Jim.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bhowell at rmi.net>
> To: <steven.buchholz at kla-tencor.com>; <urq at audifans.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 5:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [urq] Audi's Fire Sale
>
>
>> Do you have ETKA? If yes, then you can do what I did, use the "ATP"
>> function, type the part number in and ETKA will take you to the page
>> that
>> the part number appears on. On the older versions of ETKA, you have to
>> actually be in the catalog that the part applies to (e.g. you can't be
>> in
>> the catalog for a V8, enter the number for a Sport Quattro fender and
>> have
>> it take you there.) They fixed that in later versions of ETKA, but I
>> don't
>> know exactly when. In this case it wouldn't really matter because the
>> whole
>> list of parts would apply to the Sport/UrQuatto catalog.
>>
>> It is PAINFULLY time consuming, but just a basic understanding of German
>> can get you through a few of them without have to look it up.
>> "Motorblock",
>> for example, isn't all the difficult to grasp, but one would still have
>> to
>> look it up to assertain fitment. Still, I think the list is 15 pages
>> printed out on 8.5x11 and I easily have 3 to 4 hours into it and I
>> didn't
>> get through all the pages. Having a basic understanding of VAG's
>> numbering
>> system makes a big difference too.
>>
>> As for ordering, I didn't realize they were only available to members of
>> a
>> certain group. I guess that translating that cover page wasn't a
>> priority
>> for me. I ordered from VAGPARTS.COM, as they are in the UK, so
>> communication was easy, they take credit cards and they ship to the USA.
>> Although, I will say that they were almost 25% higher on thier price
>> that
>> was was quoted on Audi "Fire Sale" list. It didn't really make that big
>> of
>> a difference to me because I was ordering a $40 part, so I was willing
>> to
>> pay the extra $10 for the abilty to order off "the list". I suppose they
>> are probably paying the price that is advertised and then making thier
>> mark
>> up. Now, if you were ordering that Sport Quattro gear box, you may not
>> like
>> the 25% hit. :-)
>>
>> HTH!
>>
>> Ben
>>
>
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