A Word to the Wise

[TOXIC]

Just a little reminder with the holidays coming up and everyone doing more on-line shopping, to be careful and be prudent with a little research before just hitting that “add to cart” button.  When I parked my boat in my daughters carriage house on her farm I have been doing some upgrades getting it ready for our winter season on lake Anna’s private hot side where a nuke plant discharges it’s cooling water.  Water temps stay fishable all winter.  Anyway….my last trip up, I noticed a puddle of hub oil around a tire and fearing the worst, thought I might have a bearing failure.  I have 2 full hub assemblies as spares so I was getting ready to change it out when I noticed the seepage was from the black hard plastic hub cover that holds the fill port for my oil bath hubs.  After examination my buddy who is my go repair guy advised that I not cannibalise my spare hub for what he was certain was just an o-ring failure inside the cap and he was sure he had an o-ring to fit but he wanted the cap to make sure.  I pulled the cap and got it to him and after examination, he found it was the cap itself that had cracked at the top of the threads.  So it was time for me to go out to the web and find a cap assembly because he told me not to tear into my spares.  Being a Prime member of Amazon, that is usually the first place I go.  I had the part number and pulled up what I needed.  I felt like it was a little steep and there were no other alternate sellers listed so I went to google and put in the part number and the results are below.  Yes, I had to pay $9 for shipping and it won’t be here tomorrow but there really no excuse for that markup in my mind. So the moral of the story is to do your research before you buy. 

[WRB]

Same with $9 hidden shipping fee because didn’t use pay pal, used a credit card.

Tom

[TOXIC]

Tom, the $9 I paid for shipping was the charge no matter how you paid.  I actually used PayPal because we canceled the card that was on that account and I had to add a new one.  The shipping charge was part of the checkout process.  I don’t pay any shipping with Amazon but that doesn’t square 3X the price.