Warner front wheel bearing puller

[peter brandt]

Tom,

I understand your concerns, but there seem to be quite a few new owners
joining this list and I'm sure GMCmart will continue to grow. Also, pullers
will get stolen or lost or damaged, so there will be a demand for
replacements. And what about the shops that work on GMCs, they'll want at
least one puller once they find out it's available. So here's a thought:
At what point do you have to pay the manufacturer? If you get 25 orders and
everybody sends you a check, you'll only have to come up with half of the
money out of your pocket. I'm sure the GMCers would understand that they
have to pre-pay, considering what a great deal they are getting.
Thanks again for making the pullers available to us at such a great price.

Peter
77 Eleganza II
Colorado

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "tom warner"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: GMC: Warner front wheel bearing puller

> Yesterday I shipped the last puller. I had informed everyone previously
that
> I was not going to make anymore. The price to manufacture them was going
up
> $20 so the total would have been $220 for the set. I was reluctant to do
> that since I had agreed originally to manufacture the set for less than
> $200. And boy this takes a lot of time and energy to ride herd on the
> manufacturer and than keep track of everything and pack them all up and
UPS
> them.
>
> My phone is now ringing constantly everyday with GMC owners either asking
> questions about the puller ( many of them responding to the GMC mart ad)
> asking for still more pullers. I am now getting calls from Revcon owners
and
> one cortez owner also. I am in a quandry now. I am reluctant to lay out
> $6500 for the next batch and than find out there is no more market for
them.
> I have to admit the last 50 went very fast however.
>
> I need some opinions. Is there still a need and market for additional
pullers?
>
> I already have 10 more that want them and if I get 15 more I will order
the
> next 50 if there is a positive response. I just hate to end up with that
> much money tied up for a long time.
>
> tom

 

[henry davis]

>My phone is now ringing constantly everyday with GMC owners either asking
>questions about the puller ( many of them responding to the GMC mart ad)
>asking for still more pullers. I am now getting calls from Revcon owners and
>one cortez owner also. I am in a quandry now. I am reluctant to lay out
>$6500 for the next batch and than find out there is no more market for them.
>I have to admit the last 50 went very fast however.
>
>I need some opinions. Is there still a need and market for additional pullers?


Tom,

Fortunately my pullers weren't stolen in the robbery - one was buried in
the bed storage area where it lives, and the other was in the warehouse.

While I am very happy to have received my pullers inexpensively, I continue
to believe that you should charge something for your time (and to build up
an "inventory fund").

It's pretty likely that you've just scratched the surface of demand for
pullers. While the internet is a good thing, we have less that 10% of
owners on this list for example. I think that if you continue to be fairly
high profile about your pullers the demand will continue for a good while.

Thanks for taking this project on - I know that it's been a tremendous
amount of work.

Henry