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M3KUK
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Post Wed Jan 10, 2018 8:36 pm

Hi, been getting a lot of prices from Cotswold over the last year or so. Some parts are still available and at quite reasonable prices. Could we make a sticky thread with the prices in it. Saves people asking for the same prices over and over?
Would also stop people asking rip off prices on eBay etc.

What do you think?
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Post Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:17 am

Prices do change from time to time, so would soon be out of date.
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Post Thu Jan 11, 2018 2:32 pm

Keeps the parts department employed if the dealership ever starts querying what they do, the more enquiries the better stops the munching on biscuits.
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Post Thu Jan 11, 2018 6:41 pm

sounds like a great idea would be much apperciated
i,m sure it would help a lot of people and would be good to compare prices from ebay ecp etc i don,t bother with the dealer only brought a cam position sensor from them for m52 118 quid
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Post Fri Jan 12, 2018 2:16 pm

you may or may not recognise these little bits, but I didnt even notice the price as it was part of a big order, but those wee screws on those pipe holding brackets cost just shy of £6 each!!!

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I would assume this price has escalated a wee bit in the last years so to echo the point above, any reporting of prices would have to be a maintained / live document. That would, I assume, be a lot of work for Cotswold.
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Post Fri Jan 12, 2018 9:33 pm

I reckon it is doable - If for example there was a CSV file where their prices were stored at the back end of their system they could simply just upload that to this site. If prices do change it would just be a case of updating the file.