Black Friday sales

rlmccarty2000 said:
Detailed Image is the only retailer that will discount polishers, but you have to be in their wholesale program. Not hard to get into the program, you just have to reach a dollar purchase level and the polisher alone gets you close to the dollar amount.
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Huh...IIRC it was them from whom I got notifications of a recent Polisher sale, but I don`t order all *that* much stuff from `em so I doubt I`d qualify as "wholesale". Had to say "IIRC" as I just deleted the email without really looking into it.
 
rlmccarty2000 said:
Ive been waiting for Sonax to clear out their old stock of wheel cleaner since they now have a new 20% better formulation. Right now Detailing dot com has the old formulation on sale, but AG and Autopia are still running it at full price, which imho is way too high.
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Yeah I completly agree with your that the Wheel Cleaner Plus is a high price. But with the new version you get it around what the price is for the Sonax Extreme Max Effect which it`s called here in Sweden. It`s totaly new product here and not a new version of the Sonax Extreme Wheel Cleaner Full Effect which the Wheel Cleaner Plus is called here. Does it makes sense LOL. But since the AGO already has the new version for you on pictures I think that you will be getting that when you buy it. Autopia has not changed it yet so maybe they are selling off the remaining stock of it? Even if it`s stronger the new version it`s a high price on it IMO. The old versionof Wheel Cleaner Plus is around $14 here in Sweden and that`s with VAT and taxes included as the ordinary price. The new version of it is at $21-$22 including VAT and taxes here in Sweden. I have just bought 1 bottle to try it out. And it`s noticeble stronger in the iron remover parts and I would say more than 20% stronger. But in some way the cleaning ability from it if you where to take away the iron remover parts it feeled almost weaker than the old version to be honest. We usually have some family member or friend that do the trip to this big store yearly. They get me 5 bottles of the Wheel Cleaner Plus and it`s between $7-$8 a piece VAT and taxes included as the ordinary price. That gets me through the year as a maintance wheel cleaner. Sure there is cheaper options but it works so great for me even when I do it touchless and PW clean rinsing it off. So I have been satisfied with it. And if I need to be useing a stronger wheel cleaner it`s an acid based wheel cleaner that`s needed. Sometimes I`m wondering to just dilute an acid based wheel cleaner which would be way more economical to use. It would maybe be like dilute the Meguiars Wheel Brightener D140 at 1:10. And also the Bilt Hamber Surfex HD at 1:10-1-20 does a great work to touchless cleaning the wheels. And maybe once a month use a wheel cleaner that removes the imbedded iron particals either a bleeding effect one or an acid based one.

Hold a close eye on Autopia if they have a big sale to clean out the stock of the Sonax Wheel Cleaner Plus.
 
Accumulator said:
Huh...IIRC it was them from whom I got notifications of a recent Polisher sale, but I don`t order all *that* much stuff from `em so I doubt I`d qualify as "wholesale". Had to say "IIRC" as I just deleted the email without really looking into it.
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Them and AGO had Rupes polishers @ around 15% off--
I am not a fan of the rupes polishers
More of a flex guy-- There was a guy on AGO yesterday said he just passed up a 25% of flex polishers-- I "some what" kind of called BS on that-- got no response back. I highly doubt anyone will find them advertised @25% off. I have been watching and waiting for over 3 yrs now and have yet to find them discounted like that
 
re-tired said:
Them and AGO had Rupes polishers @ around 15% off--
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*Everybody* was discounting Rupes on Friday, guess Rupes dropped their pricing restrictions for a day or sumthin`.

Around 12:15am Friday morning my phone starting pinging away with emails of everyone announcing discounted Rupes
 
Accumulator said:
Huh...IIRC it was them from whom I got notifications of a recent Polisher sale, but I don`t order all *that* much stuff from `em so I doubt I`d qualify as "wholesale". Had to say "IIRC" as I just deleted the email without really looking into it.
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I forget what dollar value the first tier of their wholesale program but it is not really worth it unless you are buying a polisher. Everything else is 25-30 percent off but they charge you for shipping which negates the discount on everyday supplies. They have higher tiers for power users but I will never get there. For me it almost always makes more sense to wait on a PBMG sale.
 
rlmccarty2000 said:
I forget what dollar value the first tier of their wholesale program but it is not really worth it unless you are buying a polisher. Everything else is 25-30 percent off but they charge you for shipping which negates the discount on everyday supplies. They have higher tiers for power users but I will never get there. For me it almost always makes more sense to wait on a PBMG sale.
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I was at the $2000+ Tier one year, hadda set up a new non-wholesale account as the 20-25% off sales were better deal than wholesale for most items, generally all excluding polishers and other big-ticket items.

Never really ended up buying much under the wholesale account. Likely a better deal for pros that buy often and can`t always wait for sales.
 
I also had the top tier DI wholesale account but let it lapse when I opened an Autopia wholesale account since the discounts were the same or better across the board and they don`t have quotas to fulfill to keep the discounts. DI has good service and is friendly, etc, but business is business. My only complaint with Autopia is I wish they would get their shipping out a little quicker. My last two orders were both shipped the next day, one of them at the end of the following day, even when the order was placed before noon.
 
I always talk With Will C. here @ Autopia-- not gonna get a friendlier guy than him, probably the best guy I have ever dealt with anywhere
 
SWETM said:
But since the AGO already has the new version for you on pictures I think that you will be getting that when you buy it. Autopia has not changed it yet so maybe they are selling off the remaining stock of it? Even if it`s stronger the new version it`s a high price on it IMO.
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Just to clear up any confusion on the new formula of the Sonax Wheel Cleaner Plus, not only is it stronger, but it is a bigger bottle as well. The previous version was 500ml, the new Sonax Wheel Cleaner Plus (SON-230400) is a 750ml bottle, so take that into consideration with the price. :) Autogeek has the new version up already and it should be available on Autopia soon as well.
 
re-tired said:
Them and AGO had Rupes polishers @ around 15% off--
I am not a fan of the rupes polishers
More of a flex guy-- There was a guy on AGO yesterday said he just passed up a 25% of flex polishers-- I "some what" kind of called BS on that-- got no response back. I highly doubt anyone will find them advertised @25% off. I have been watching and waiting for over 3 yrs now and have yet to find them discounted like that
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Perhaps he was talking about the recent Flex sale where you bought a Flex and received a $85 gift card in return.

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Liz@Autopia said:
Just to clear up any confusion on the new formula of the Sonax Wheel Cleaner Plus, not only is it stronger, but it is a bigger bottle as well. The previous version was 500ml, the new Sonax Wheel Cleaner Plus (SON-230400) is a 750ml bottle, so take that into consideration with the price. :) Autogeek has the new version up already and it should be available on Autopia soon as well.
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That`s right I`m so used with the 750ml bottle as they switch to that for around 2 years ago here in Sweden. But it`s the common thing when you get to the products that don`t have to be shipped so long away. You get those cheaper. As the US manufactures products has a higher price here you have higher prices from EU. The products from Asia we have around the same prices when I compare. For an example I have been interested in some Meguiars products but it`s priced like a boutique brand here in Sweden. Especially high prices on the Detailers line where it`s usually 3-5 times the price here. Then it`s maybe a little unfair on as I compare with the VAT and taxes included here in Sweden and those are quite high here sadly. We even got a special chemical tax around a year ago that got the prices higher all over the products from anywhere.

Don`t get me wrong I like Sonax Wheel Cleaner Plus a lot and use it for maintance even when I can go cheaper with another product. With the bigger bottle and the product for me Max Effect as the new version for you of Wheel Cleaner Plus. You get a higher value out of the Wheel Cleaner Plus than you did before. So it`s a great improvement for you guys and gals.
 
Last month at some point AG had polishers on sale. Excluded Rupes and griots polisher only. You could get discounts on kits.

So far been little disappointed to PBMG sales comparable to last years.... so far no BF polisher sales or gift card sales


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This is too late, but Detailed Image had polishers on sale this season, including Rupes. I`m anticipating a similar sale next year.
 
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