Marine Supply Houses?
K4ZDZ
Looking for substantial firms which provide catalogs of their wares (other than
Overtons, West Marine, & U.S. Boaters).
800 numbers hopefully!
Jim in Chuluota, FL
PrinceMyshkin
In article <19980227004...@ladder02.news.aol.com>, k4...@aol.com
says...
>
>Looking for substantial firms which provide catalogs of their wares (other
than
>Overtons, West Marine, & U.S. Boaters).
Defender Industries, Connecticut, 800-701-3400. Largest selection and on
average best prices but worst customer service.
Jamestown Distributors, Rhode Island and South Carolina, 800-423-0030. Best for
fittings, nuts and bolts, fasteners, etc.
Also: http://www.layline.com. Great online catalog.
Vaughn
Defender bad customer service? When they won't even respond to the free
catalog request from their own online service, I suspect that bad
service is a compliment. I saw them at the Miami boat show, reminded me
of 42nd Street Photo in their heyday. 42nd Street is out of business.
Louise Coulson
On 27 Feb 1998 00:49:31 GMT, k4...@aol.com (K4ZDZ) wrote:
>Looking for substantial firms which provide catalogs of their wares (other than
>Overtons, West Marine, & U.S. Boaters).
>
>800 numbers hopefully!
Defender Industries is one of our favorite suppliers. They do have an
800 order line, but to get a catalog, you can call 860-701-3400. Web
site address is www.DefenderUS.com
Hamilton is also good -- no Web site I believe, but an 800 # that I
don't have at hand. They are in Portland, ME and in Searsport, ME.
Hope it helps,
Louise
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www.DefenderUS.com
K4ZDZ wrote in message <19980227004...@ladder02.news.aol.com>...
>Looking for substantial firms which provide catalogs of their wares (other
than
>Overtons, West Marine, & U.S. Boaters).
>
>800 numbers hopefully!
>
Mark Armstrong
Vaughn wrote:
>
>
> Defender bad customer service? When they won't even respond to the free
> catalog request from their own online service, I suspect that bad
> service is a compliment.
I hope not, just for their catalog. Their prices are low, I always have
my Defender catalog when I go shopping at West Marine (price matching).
I guess I will have to buy something from them one of these days :-)
Mark
PrinceMyshkin
In article <34FB005B...@nospamme.com>, m...@nospamme.com says...
>
> Their prices are low, I always have
>my Defender catalog when I go shopping at West Marine (price matching).
Defender, while overall a bit cheaper than most, is not always cheapest on
specific items. On major purchases in particular, where the sales tax can be a
big factor, I line up the catalogs of all the major suppliers and some minor
ones and then just list the items and their prices in columns. West usually
gets knocked out of the competition because they have a presence in New York
State and have to charge the sales tax even on mail orders into the state. I
would say my expenditures are about even between Defender and Boat US, some to
West and some to others. When buying in the store, usually only West here in
the city (formerly Goldberg/E&B) because they have a no questions asked refund
policy for stuff purchased in the store. Defender's policy at the store in New
Rochelle is restrictive and Post is worst of all -- no refunds, store credit
only, no matter how you pay for it. So if you buy at Post make sure you love it
and will never want to return it. Otherwise, Post can be a good open place to
shop with its huge new store. But that no refund policy has to go before I will
spend any substantial sum there.
R Goddard
West Marine http://www.westmarine.com
Check out their prices then e-mail us for ours-----
bob
D&B Marine
http://www.tqci.net/~dbmarine
Jim Gillman <ji...@fiber-net.com> wrote in article
<34F98C...@fiber-net.com>...
> Boat/US can be telephoned at 1-800-937-2628. E&B Discount/West
> Marine also has an 800 number, but I can't find my catalog right now.
>
> "800" numbers can be obtained by calling 1-800-555-1212. A search
> by any of the common search engines (Infoseek, Yahoo, etc.) should also
> give you some information.
>
> Both Boat/US and E&B Discount Marine had web sites, and you can perhaps
> find additional information there.
>
> Jim
> S/V Moonlight Shadow
>