Hi Folks : Alan from VolksBolts here..... we're a little like beetlegeuse...say our name three times and we appear. :wink:
We sell bags of parts kitted into application areas as mentioned above on-line so you just come along and say 'front bumper' or 'sliding door' and we send you a bag of bits.
When we go to a show we sell individual bit parts as well. We've pulled out of a couple as the Wife has not been well.
We can't really do individual parts on-line as the fees and charges are too high. We loose about 20% of all the money we take on EBay to EBay and Paypal fees for example.
The 'other guy' (mentioned above) bought a full Split Van kit from us and started selling knock-offs a week later. He even copied all of our non-stock improvements verbatim. He did the same with the V8 engine bits he sells - we vend these too, as does a chap in Cornwall whom we chat with from time to time. the Cornish chap sold him some stuff and hey presto...a week later. He copied some Vespa parts - he stopped doing these as I think the guy sent some lads round (presumably on vespas) to talk with him about it.! :shock:
Its a mercenary world at times : you just have to live with it. Personally we play fair and only issue parts that we have tried and tested and otherwise sourced from real hard-work and experience.
Like any business we have over-heads (marketting, I.T., facilities), taxes etc. Given the hours we work (on the computer and in the workshop) we are on under minimum wage - if we get more stuff to sell then we'll be able to pay ourselves better.
Don't forget - we also do High Tensile bolt kits for the front and rear axles (shock absorbers, spring plates, disc brakes etc) - kits for the type 1 and type 4 motors including exhaust studs etc and other fiddly little things like the correct electrical connectors that VW used - so you don't have to use those awful plastic collared squash-on ones.
Just remember : the more successful we become the more high quality correct parts we can source to help keep our VeeDubs running.! :!:
