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I think Old Britts are real easy to use compared to some of the others. I never had any trouble with Fred and Ella and Ella is vary prompt with my orders. Phil
Norton-Villier said:I think Old Britts are real easy to use compared to some of the others. I never had any trouble with Fred and Ella and Ella is vary prompt with my orders. Phil
tpeever said:If you are just working on Commandos, you don't need to deal with Domiracer. There are several great vendors of Commando parts in the US and Old Britts is at the top of my list as well. I had to deal with Domi a fair bit during restoration of my 61 Dominator because they are one of the few (maybe the only?) vendors selling parts for older Nortons in the US. However, I generally found it easier to deal with UK suppliers.
I generally found it easier to deal with UK suppliers.
gtsun said:Truth is you should use the phone with Domi Racer. If for no other reason then the fact the he is so much fun to talk to. He gives good advice & you will know what is in stock and able to be shipped now. I like the Internet for ordering some things but to me ( only my opinion ) These old bikes and most of the people/companies doing biz with them are not the big generic Walmart type companies. And still most do have great e biz abilities. Old Britts site is so extensive I have spent hours just looking through it learning things. Still I use the phone because Fred & Ella are so nice I like talking to them. Domi's is good as well, but do call him. He's great. I'm not going to say your a kid, your not but you did grow up at a time when everyone pushes buttons instead of talking in person & you may not understand these sellers are small buisnessess of a old style. I have complained about a vender here, & I actualy regret it but I was directly lied to many times & I still don't understand why. To me not being truthful is wrong. But I don't think that's what happened to you.
gtsun said:Bottom line. His site says to check for availability . It just came to me how spoiled we all are that we complain like this. When I was 25 you could not just order parts and have them in days. 99% of this stuff was not even available but if it was, it was used, came from another continent off a crashed bike in the back of some old shop in the rain & took months to get here. I couldn't even find body work for my Dunstallized 750 for a long time. It took work to get stuff when I was your age. Now it's in every magazine. I for one would like to use this time to thank all the shops I by from for making it so easy.
kommando said:If you post an online shop and allow searches by part number and then allow them to be added to a shopping basket then everything listed should be in stock.
If you can't offer this then do like RGM, have the catalogue online but do not allow the parts to be ordered and instead give a phone contact number for placing the order.
Nelson said:Personally I think we're a little spoiled with the vendors we've got. I picked up an older BMW a couple of years ago, and there are virtually no decent online sources for part, definitely nothing like Fred & Ella's site with inventory listed.
britbike220 said:In the amount of time this thread has run you could have ordered and be receiving all the parts you need by Monday from old britts......: