mister-auto rip off

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Mr Auto has always provided me a decent service and would buy from them regularly, nothing wrong with their prices.

Having said that, if you're prepared to pay £18 delivery or spend £140 for free delivery, try here. I use them for stuff when I'm in no rush

Parcel motel might be an option? Looks like delivery is 8.45stg + 3.50eur for parcel motel. A bit cheaper at least.

Yeah, when ever I need parts I just do a search on all the usual suspects and go with the cheapest. Unless I need the parts in a hurry then I'd rather go with Micksgarage. But I've used Mist-auto a tonne and they've often worked out cheapest; they are slow to post though.

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Mr Auto has always provided me a decent service and would buy from them regularly, nothing wrong with their prices.

Having said that, if you're prepared to pay £18 delivery or spend £140 for free delivery, try here. I use them for stuff when I'm in no rush

Same here ref decent service etc

I've always found them terrible when I used them. Cheaper prices but often the wrong item shipped out. Out of 5 orders in total 4 were wrong. At least with micksgarage I've always got what I ordered

Bill nye wrote: »

I've always found them terrible when I used them. Cheaper prices but often the wrong item shipped out. Out of 5 orders in total 4 were wrong. At least with micksgarage I've always got what I ordered

You need to check the status of your order before they ship it.
It should mention that they are sending something different if they don't have what you ordered.
You get the choice to refuse them but if you don't they go ahead and send alternatives.

blade1 wrote: »

You need to check the status of your order before they ship it.
It should mention that they are sending something different if they don't have what you ordered.
You get the choice to refuse them but if you don't they go ahead and send alternatives.

It's been a number of years since I last used them. I don't recall that feature back then. I didn't mention it in my post but when I said wrong item, I didn't mean a similar product. I was sent wiper blades in place of air and oil filters. They were kind enough to let me keep them and refund my money, but they didn't fit my car so meh. That was the last straw with them and I never used them since.

hugo habicht wrote: »

And did you check what mister-auto is charging on their German or French web sites for this?



This thread is not about comparing mister-auto to none competitive other businesses. This thread is about mister-auto charging Irish people on some items almost twice the price they charge people living outside Ireland.

Your point is completely moot. I don't know why you're having a go at mistauto when the exact same argument could be made that you would pay far less for an oem at a dealership in Germany than you would here.
We pay more for stuff here because we're paid more here.
As has been pointed out, it is just market forces.

corks finest wrote: »

StereoSound wrote: »

Truckermal wrote: »

Mister Auto are brilliant I have loads of stuff purchased from them now and never had any issues!

Micksgarage are a disaster though...

Micksgarage....I would agree with that to a certain extent.

Bring honest,Mick's garage went over and above, including phone calls/ emails to sort out my problem

I work in eCommerce (not for any of the sites mentioned in this thread).

There's no point in noticing a price discrepancy like this and then saying "I'm never buying from them again", because every site does things with pricing that can be to the benefit or detriment to a given customer, so you'll eventually run out of places to buy things. Chances are there are other items on the .ie site that are cheaper than on the .de one. If you feel you're charged too much, by all means buy it elsewhere, but don't be surpised if it doesn't happen on the other site for a different product at some point too, and don't be surprised if you miss out on a bargain on Mister Auto on some other product.

The store are charging X in Ireland and Y in Germany because they've calculated that the respective markets can handle each price for that given product. It's the confluence of capitalism, big data and the flexibility of online commerce.

Take Amazon for example. They constantly change their prices - literally millions times a day across their catalogue. They have massive amounts of data on what's selling, what's not, what people are looking at, adding to carts, to wishlists, removing from carts. You could put a given product in to a cart at the same time as someone else, and both of you could get a different price. Or the same price. The price changes aren't anything to do with what the product cost them - they do constant calculations on finding the optimum pricing for a given product in a given market at a given time. Sometimes that makes the price fall, sometimes it makes it rise. All the time, Amazon are making money from it.

You can't apply the same rules to online shopping as you would to bricks and mortar regarding price stability or consistency, as physical shops can't react fast enough to change prices on the shelves - although there are up and coming companies looking to apply the same pricing models to physical stores, so it's possible that it's coming out way sooner rather than later. There may be a day when Tesco's prices change dynamically throughout the day based on store location, time, number of shoppers in the store, age or social profile of the shoppers present, and many other factors. They probably won't ever get away with charging two customers in the same store different prices at the same time for the same product, though, because it will be obvious that one person is getting ripped off. Online stores can do all this stuff now and get away with it, because online shopping is a private activity, and most of the times price discrepancies aren't noticed.

The best way to shop online is to always compare prices across multiple outlets, and go with the cheapest each time. They have no loyalty to you, you shouldn't have any loyalty to them. If you play the game, you'll do well, but it takes a bit of work.

By the way, the fuel pump in question (https://www.mister-auto.ie/fuel-pump/bosch-0-580-254-911_g458_a0300!580!254!911.html) is showing up as €190.90 for me on the Irish site - up 2 euro from when you checked 3 days ago - possibly because they know that a load of us on this thread have been searching for it, so they interpret that as a rise in demand.