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Tony,

i appreciate your position.  i have bought & sold other types of things over ebay (i am a brass instrument guy in a previous life) and i believe that letting the open market decide the price is a good quick way to make everyone happy.  mark (the seller in question), just does not have that mindset.

Jeff,

thanks for the kind words!  the pricing situation where i work is, again, what it is.  i believe in providing the best service & knowledge that my experience can provide.  my job is smiling, happy bowlers & the gentleman that signs the checks does the rest.  it has worked that way since 1987, and i don''t see it changing anytime in the near future.

Joe,

again, and i do not want to turn this into a "shop colusion" discussion, but yes we charge $20 more than you guys for a clutch...  if we are more than $20 higher, why do you feel you need to de-value your services so much?  there are 80 other shops within a half hours drive of both of us, and many of them only compete on price, why is that?  IMO, there are three things that you can define us in our business... speed of service, quality of service, and pricing... and you can only be the best in two of the three and survive, fwiw. /soapbox

cya around,

ron

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