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Re:America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrep... by gh02t on Sunday October 13, 2024 @10:51PM (#41833784)
I had a bad capacitor this past summer and ended up having to drive over an hour because the only place in town that would sell me a capacitor was Grainger on the opposite end of [moderately large town]. Everywhere else I called declined to sell me one for "safety reasons". Several did offer to send a tech out to do it for me...
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Re:America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrep... by fshbbdssbbgdd on Monday October 14, 2024 @03:45AM (#41835194)
When my AC broke on the weekend, I got a capacitor from Amazon that arrived next day.
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Re:America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrep... by gh02t on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @02:12PM (#41851381)
Unfortunately Amazon in my area at the time had been taking a week or more for any deliveries. It was really annoying.
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Re:America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrep... by mmmlinux on Monday October 14, 2024 @11:32AM (#41838467)
If they have techs they don't want to sell you parts, they want to sell you service. Granger sells parts. Would you call up restaurants trying to buy a raw potato?
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Re:America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrep... by gh02t on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @02:11PM (#41851349)
I actually mostly called up HVAC supply places but they wouldn't sell me a cap and offered to refer me to one of their "preferred" service providers. Maybe it's some backdoor colluding in my area, who knows, but yeah I was really surprised they wouldn't. I think I called 3-4 before someone told me Grainger sells 'em.
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Re:America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrep... by bigfatkitten on Saturday October 19, 2024 @12:54AM (#41885726)
It's pretty common for outfits like that to be "trade only" and not do retail sales at all. Electrical wholesalers are often the same.
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Re:America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrep... by sidewndr46 on Monday October 14, 2024 @02:12PM (#41840220)
This is why you call a supply house and not an HVAC company. As long as you aren't trying to buy refrigerant they really don't care.
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