Amazon Deals link.

[EdwinAMartin]

In some areas of the retail world, I buy American made (guns, tools, etc.). But when it comes to most auto parts, I get tired of looking for actual, American made parts. They're few and far between. So I just buy what I need to fix the problem and move on. I especially gave up when I started seeing "Assembled In America" on the label. That simply means the parts were made in China or some other foreign land.

Still trying to pretend you're not an IRanian or CCP operative, eh?

 

[SaxonJackson]

Still trying to pretend you're not an IRanian or CCP operative, eh?

What are you babbling about?

 

[SaxonJackson]

You don't have to wait 6 years to exchange them, if you're lucky, when they don't work or if you get the wrong part.

I've never had to "wait 6 years" to exchange or return anything I've purchased from the auto part stores I name OR Amazon.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

I've never had to "wait 6 years" to exchange or return anything I've purchased from the auto part stores I name OR Amazon.

Your lack of reading comprehension means English isn't your first language. Is it Farsi, or Russian? Chinese?

 

[TemplarKormac]

There an Amazon Deals link at the top of the page. Does USMB get a cut if we buy something from link?

Yanno.. I always wondered about that.

 

[Natural Citizen]

There an Amazon Deals link at the top of the page. Does USMB get a cut if we buy something from link?

Yanno.. I always wondered about that.

It's an affiliate lnk. I don't shop at Amazon myself, never have, but if you're going to, and you want to help support paying the board's bills, it gets a very small kickback on your purchases, provided you access Amazon through the link in the header.

 

[SaxonJackson]

Your lack of reading comprehension means English isn't your first language. Is it Farsi, or Russian? Chinese?

Regardless of the language I happen to be speaking, I still don't have to wait 6 years to return things I've purchased. If you can't comprehend that then perhaps English isn't YOUR bread and butter.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

Regardless of the language I happen to be speaking, I still don't have to wait 6 years to return things I've purchased. If you can't comprehend that then perhaps English isn't YOUR bread and butter.

Go with that. You need a lot of straws.

 

[The Duke]

I never buy from Amazon because of questionable third party sellers and counterfeit parts.
Never, ever buy car parts from Amazon, most are Chinese counterfeit junk.

This is off-topic now..

But I just learned this: Advanced Auto Parts, AutoZone, and 1 other one I'm forgetting, Blackrock is their largest investors, and they're setting prices.
NAPA was not one. The other one may have been O'Reilly's, but cannot say for certain.
Now I can, it IS O'Reilly's:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ORLY/holders/

Bottom line: Blackrock is monopolizing auto parts stores in America.
They're trying to do it wherever they can.
Housing markets, too. Ah! That's how I ran across this.
It's criminal that they're competing against families for homes with unlimited capital vs. finite capital.
It's a large percentage of why housing is too expensive. Local taxes taking more than their share and government subsidizing illegals is pretty much most of the rest of it.