| Author | Message | ||
     Gotlime |
I picked up a coupla shirts. Great prices!!! [non sponsor ad removed] (Message edited by blake on October 28, 2009) | ||
| Genoa |
Just ordered a hoodie, jacket and 2 t-shirts for $65 (shipping included). Thanks for the heads-up. | ||
| Tbolt98 |
Thanks Gotlime, just placed an order as well! | ||
| Fmaxwell |
Do a search for Buell on there and you will find an 1125R manual, emblems, a Buell bike cover, seat for an S3T, and other items. | ||
| P_squared |
Or.... You could all go to the sponsor's page here on BWB and throw your business their way. Chellem @ Liberty is setup to give you an automatic BWB discount on Buell gear you order from her site. Tom & Jeremy would like a shot at your business as well I'm sure for Bumpus. Then there's Glendale, who if I'm not mistaken also help Steve & Shawn race their bikes. Don't forget Teach in Ohio. The list goes on & on & on... I can understand wanting good deals, believe me, but could we all @ least TRY to steer our 1st contact for potential business to the folks who help pay 2 keep the lights on here? At least check with them to see if they can meet or beat the price(s) from non-sponsors? Please? | ||
| Tbenson |
Agreed, +1 P squared! | ||
| Barker |
+1 P2 | ||
| Gotlime |
Well, I apologize guys. Mods can delete the thread. | ||
| Gotlime |
An alternative would be for those vendors to post a link to their pages of discounted Buell items instead of all of us having to email all of them. My dad taught me that if someone is helping you (buying products in this case) you make it as easy as possible for them to do so. | ||
| P_squared |
Um, I think you missed the point. If you find a good deal from a non-sponsor, make the effort to check if any of the sponsors here have the product, and if so, can they meet or beat the deal from the non-sponsor. I don't expect the sponsor's here to cut their own throats by selling all of their inventory @ the lowest possible price. The dealers who did that before 10/15 screwed the good dealers. I'd prefer we, the Buell customers, not continue that pattern. | ||
| P_squared |
Case in point of taking the initiative to ask: http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/406 2/508418.html?1256751312 | ||
| Fmaxwell |
At least check with them to see if they can meet or beat the price(s) from non-sponsors? Buell is going out of business and people are reacting to advertised closeout pricing. The time spent e-mailing a half dozen Badweb sponsors to see if they will match a closeout price (like a $95 jacket for $30) could mean the item being sold out -- forever. Sponsors: I'm all for supporting the sponsors of this board. I'll even pay a few percent more for the same item. But meet me half way: Tell me what you have on closeout and provide a link so that I can browse your closeouts and place orders. | ||
| P_squared |
Have you ASKED them to provide that info? If you cruise that link from the Quickboard, you'll see Tom is PM'ng folks left & right as soon as they ask. But hey, if it makes you feel better to justify your behavior in such a manner that you feel no personal responsibility, so be it.  | ||
| Gotlime |
Please delete this thread. | ||
| Tnxbrider |
Ready to help in anyway that I can guys. We are working on posting a list and pictures but if you will let me know what you need I'll get you a quote. If my quote is not acceptable then... We (all BadWeb sponsors + 10 PSquared), are all doing our best to serve you. Please give us that chance, that is all we ask. Thanks T | ||
| Chadhargis |
I am a big supporter of Bumpus, and if I were actively seeking something they carried, I'd ask Tom or Jeremy. However, I'm also a hopeless impulse buyer. If someone posted up something cool for very little money, depending on my mood, I'd jump on it. I can't count the amount of crap I've bought just because it was cheap. Hell, I have a steel rod in my shop that I bought because it was cool, and really cheap (I think I paid a dollar for it). I have no idea what I will ever use it for, but it's a solid stainless steel rod about 1/2" thick. Heavy and shiny. Ooooh...so pretty.  Damn, I'm sick. | ||
| Augustus74 |
Agree with Chad. I think these are mostly impulse buys and not something people have been searching weeks for. | ||
| Fmaxwell |
P_squared wrote: "Have you ASKED them to provide that info?" YES, I HAVE! I wrote: "Tell me what you have on closeout and provide a link so that I can browse your closeouts and place orders." P_squared wrote: "But hey, if it makes you feel better to justify your behavior in such a manner that you feel no personal responsibility, so be it." I don't have a "personal responsibility" to individually ask Badweb sponsors to match prices. Nor do I have to "justify" making a purchase of products from Barnett's Harley, my local dealer, or some guy on ebay. The sponsors pay for advertising on a web site that I use (Badweb) -- they didn't rescue my family from a burning building. Pardon the heck out of me, because I bought my 1125CR at East Coast HD/Buell in Dumfries, VA for $4995 without going home and contacting all of the Badweb sponsoring dealers to see what they would sell it for. I also didn't check with all of them before buying the $150 tailbag for $100 at Annapolis HD/Buell. That's how purchasing of limited quantity closeout stuff works: If you don't move quickly, it may be sold out before you can buy it. If a Badweb advertiser puts up a banner ad that reads "Buell Apparal and Accessories Closeout! Save 40%, 50%, 60% or more!", I'm all over that link. If they put up an ad that says "we meet or beat prices from any HD/Buell dealer," then I will buy from them. But I'm not going to miss out on getting soon-to-be-scarce Buell memorabilia out of some notion that I have a moral obligation to do business with firms that paid for advertising on this web site. | ||
| Sl33py |
Lime - i appreciate the heads up. I've looked at sponsors sites for some of this before, but so few have any sort of discount shown... SO thanks - picked up a couple shirts. I will continue to try and support the vendors here, but also not passing up a great deal like this. | ||
| P_squared |
Glad I could get under your skin. Like I said, I have no problem understanding folks wanting a good deal. I understand impulse purchases as well. Plugging a non-sponsor site here & then attempting to justify giving non-sponsors business HERE is a whole different kettle of fish. I have a problem with folks posting links to non-sponsor sites without giving the sponsors here a chance at that business. I have a problem with folks not at least attempting to ask if the sponsors here can meet or beat a non-sponsor offer in a thread started with a non-sponsor link. As for the part of ASKING the sponsors here on what deals they have, asking in 1 thread in the 1125R board is pitiful IMO as “justification” to say you have. At least have the decency to ask it in a new thread on the Quickboard, where the majority of them might actually SEE it & respond to it. That is if it’s too difficult to contact them all individually via their email/phone/own section of BWB. If you don’t get that, then rail against me however you see fit. You won’t hurt my feelings in the least. | ||
| Gotlime |
Can we stop the bickering guys? We're all on the same team. Forgive me for sharing some deals I found. For the 3rd time. Someone delete the thread!!! | ||
| P_squared |
Gotlime, you should be able to edit/delete the link in your 1st post. I don't fault your enthusiasm by any means. As for the thread, I'd rather it stayed here as a reminder to folks that they at least give the BWB sponsors a chance at their business. | ||
| Not_purple_s2 |
thanks for the tip. I was expecting to see some dealers doing blowouts on the merch like they have with the bikes. I'll keep my eye out for more. I think most of our sponsor dealers will keep their stock at their normal "damn good deal" prices. No sense in giving away something that is going to be rare soon, especially when you're already selling it at a discount. At the same time I don't expect them to start jacking up the prices this time next year when someone posts "HELP I want a Buell shirt and I can't find one!" | ||
| Fmaxwell |
P_squared wrote: "Glad I could get under your skin." You didn't -- it just seemed to be an appropriate time to make fun of the silliness you wrote. "Plugging a non-sponsor site here & then attempting to justify giving non-sponsors business HERE is a whole different kettle of fish." No one 'plugged a site'. They posted a link to a closeout sale of Buell apparel in the interest of helping their fellow Badweb members before the merchandise was sold out. And, as you are so clearly demonstrating, no good deed goes unpunished. "I have a problem  with folks posting links to non-sponsor sites without giving the sponsors here a chance at that business." The sponsors have the opportunity to put their banner ads all over this site -- I'm looking at one for Glendale HD/Buell as I type this. They could have jumped into this thread and said "we'll beat those prices!" It's not our responsibility to seek them out every time we find a limited-time, closeout deal that we want to quickly share with the Buell community. "I have a problem with folks not at least attempting to ask if the sponsors here can meet or beat a non-sponsor offer in a thread started with a non-sponsor link." So, what did the sponsors tell you when you contacted them about this? Oh, you meant other people should contact them. "As for the part of ASKING the sponsors here on what deals they have, asking in 1 thread in the 1125R board is pitiful IMO as “justification” to say you have. At least have the decency to ask it in a new thread on the Quickboard, where the majority of them might actually SEE it & respond to it." I'm not "justifying" anything to you -- I am just answering your question. But since you want to belabor the point, should I have been posting several times a week requesting that the Badweb advertisers advertise their sales here? I think that you underestimate them if you think that they are willing to sell at 65% off but don't know that they should advertise that. If you're so damned concerned about the sponsors, where's your message to them on the Quick Board asking if they want to match or beat the prices? Your two Quick Board posts today are pictures of yourself and your thoughts on an 1199RR. Yeah, thanks for giving those sponsors a heads-up about this business opportunity. "If you don’t get that, then rail against me however you see fit. You won’t hurt my feelings in the least." Cool. | ||
| P_squared |
Nice. Funny thing though, I'm not the 1 looking to purchase things or attempt to defend/justify my "reasoning" for plugging non-sponsor crap here. You are. Your latest rebuttal is BS & you know it. What is posting a url for a non-sponsor site saying, “Great prices!” if not a plug? What is your 1st post on this thread, Do a search for Buell on there and you will find an 1125R manual, emblems, a Buell bike cover, seat for an S3T, and other items.? Not a plug? If I'm looking to purchase something, I go about it locally. If they don't have it, I then go to the sponsor(s) that do. Just like the Drummer on my bike. Or the DHM sliders on it. Or the American Sport Bike parts on the tubers I sold. Or… Since I’m not looking to buy anything right now, why would I post on the Quickboard asking them what deals they might have? You seem to be looking for deals, so why don’t you ask where they might see it & have a chance to reply to you? Or is it your expectation that I should do that for you, or the sponsors should contact you directly everytime they have a deal, or??? I get that you think I’m being an @$$ in your opinion. I get that you don’t get it. | ||
| Gotlime |
I define a"plug" as trying to push something that is in my best interest or that I will profit from. I don't know the guys in the link. I get nothing if people buy there. I was just passing on some good deals to fellow Buellers. | ||
| P_squared |
From the rules: http://www.badweatherbikers.com/cgibin/discus/disc us.cgi?pg=instructions#rules Absent permission from a board custodian, I will refrain entirely from the promotion and/or marketing of commercial merchandise or other similar/competing web sites. | ||
| Garrett2 |
psquared - youre a buzzkill. | ||
| Jbot |
that rule is not in reference to competitors of the site sponsors, but only to the site (badweb) itself. also, the OP stated he has no relationship to the site he posted, which would make it information on a deal and not self promotion in any way. (Message edited by jbot on October 28, 2009) (Message edited by jbot on October 28, 2009) | ||
| Fmaxwell |
P_squared: "Funny thing though, I'm not the 1 looking to purchase things or attempt to defend/justify my "reasoning" for plugging non-sponsor crap here." So now official Buell merchandise like jackets, shirts, and manuals is "crap." Nice. I'm perfectly happy pointing people to good deals, regardless of whether the vendors advertise here or not. "Since I’m not looking to buy anything right now, why would I post on the Quickboard asking them what deals they might have?" Oh, I see: You're all in favor of supporting the sponsors -- just not with your money, time, or effort. You would rather get all preachy and holier than thou rather than doing something that actually helped the dealers -- like finding out what closeouts they had and telling people about them. For a definition of what a "plug" is, see Gotlime's response to you. If I'm looking to purchase something, I go about it locally. If they don't have it, I then go to the sponsor(s) that do. So you've decided that the advertisers on Badweb are less deserving of your business than local dealers -- and that you are pure, good, and just in your purchasing practices. Well bully for you. Or is it your expectation that I should do that for you, or the sponsors should contact you directly everytime they have a deal, or??? If it's important to you to drive business to Badweb advertisers, then you can ask about deals on Quick Board every few days, sift through the answers, and alert people to things you think are particularly good deals. Yes, the sponsors should contact me directly with something that we call "advertising." That's how retail business works. |
