C'mon, People

[Setec Astronomy]

I’d post more often if there were more worthy products to try. All we get lately is new labels and scent variations.

I don't know, I just bought some new leather products I didn't need, that I just found out about. Buying stuff I just found out about that I don't need? It's just like the old days here...except I found out about it on AGO.

Since this place is so dead, I'll elaborate--someone started a thread on AGO "Geist or Colourlock?". So I read that, and one of the Australian members went into great detail about them. He said the Geist was simpler, less overlapping products (my words, not his). I saw one of the online stores I guess used to carry Geist and seemed to be blowing out the kits at a little over half price, so I went for it. Just got it today. My only regret is I didn't know about it or I would have added it into my Black Friday order, would have gotten an additional discount and saved the shipping cost.

I just looked and Autogeek sells no dedicated leather brands, no Leather Masters, no Leatherique, no Geist, no ColourLock.

To your comment about just new labels and scents, that may be right, but there seem to be plenty of new products and lines, a lot of rinseless washes came out this year, Labocosmetica became a thing, a new vendor popped up with a couple of new lines (THOR). KochChemie keeps releasing new stuff, Stoner is trying to make a play for us enthusiasts and break out of the "only Tarminator and Invisible Glass" trap. Some new polishers with the 24V Flex Cordless products and the new Rupes versions.

Lotta shakin' going on, whether it's really the same old stuff, maybe.

 

[Lonnie]

I don't know, I just bought some new leather products I didn't need, that I just found out about. Buying stuff I just found out about that I don't need? It's just like the old days here...except I found out about it on AGO.

Since this place is so dead, I'll elaborate--someone started a thread on AGO "Geist or Colourlock?". So I read that, and one of the Australian members went into great detail about them. He said the Geist was simpler, less overlapping products (my words, not his). I saw one of the online stores I guess used to carry Geist and seemed to be blowing out the kits at a little over half price, so I went for it. Just got it today. My only regret is I didn't know about it or I would have added it into my Black Friday order, would have gotten an additional discount and saved the shipping cost.

I just looked and Autogeek sells no dedicated leather brands, no Leather Masters, no Leatherique, no Geist, no ColourLock.

To your comment about just new labels and scents, that may be right, but there seem to be plenty of new products and lines, a lot of rinseless washes came out this year, Labocosmetica became a thing, a new vendor popped up with a couple of new lines (THOR). KochChemie keeps releasing new stuff, Stoner is trying to make a play for us enthusiasts and break out of the "only Tarminator and Invisible Glass" trap. Some new polishers with the 24V Flex Cordless products and the new Rupes versions.

Lotta shakin' going on, whether it's really the same old stuff, maybe.

Setec:
The lack of AutoGeek stocking new items OR product lines that we Autopians use (or would like to use) is now more than disconcerting to myself. I need to be careful not to "bite that hand that feed us" Autopians, but the truth hurts more than I care to admit.
But it is like Steve from Poorboy's World stated, "We (E-stores competing against Amazon) are just trying to survive these days."

I get the question from checkout clerks/associates at retail brick-and-mortar stores of all types, "Did you find everything you were looking for?" I realize it is part of their training and job as a clerk to do so, and I will tell them "NO", and SOME will ask me, "Do you want me to see if we have any in stock in the back or on the upper shelf?" but most will reply "I am sorry for that". I reply to "the sorry" with "You don't do the ordering or stocking or inventory, anyway." I just think it is an odd question to ask when MOST clerks can do nothing about out-of-stock products because of the time it takes. They are there to check out customers as fast as they can. If I have that serious a concern about something that is an out-of-stock item(s) that I NEED, I inquire at the customer service desk. Their response is, "I will pass that along to our ordering department OR I will let the product rep who stocks it know that"(MORE venting, Captain Obvious???)

 

[Setec Astronomy]

At least Autogeek seems to be back in stock on everything that they still do sell. Whether they expand the lines they stock, or come out with new products within their captive brands, remains to be seen. It does seem that it's social media and Amazon that are driving things, not forums. I know last year when Optimum came out with several RTU products that seemed to have a high overlap with existing concentrated products, the response from the rep on the OPT forum was that Amazon (customer?) feedback was driving this...and that the market was too big to ignore.