klnyc
Deep scratch guy.
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Poorboys are they a Re-Seller?
- Thread starter Snobird
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TrueDetailer
All About The Bling Bling
snobird said:
Just write down the major forum sponsers and there you go. Your list of re-sellers who charge 3 times the original cost and talk so much smack about how superior their product line is then the other. I get a kick out of the people who beleive that stuff.
Warning, This is only my opinion and not a fact.
To answer the question. Yes, I THINK they are a re packaged chemical guys produtc.
IMO all their ssr's are just their 1500,2000,2500 compounds
Their pro polish is their pro polish. i have bottle of both and they seem to be the same thing to me.
The nattys is just their hardcore white paste
and so on and so on.
this is not the only business that it happens in. Thats why i try to by direct from the source with whatever i buy. I'm not paying some extra unneccasary fees.
sneek
New member
LOL great post gears!
But Adams does not admit to reselling Chemical Guys. I would far rather purchase from someone who is honest versus someone who maybe dishonest. I am not saying Adams is lying.
But Adams does not admit to reselling Chemical Guys. I would far rather purchase from someone who is honest versus someone who maybe dishonest. I am not saying Adams is lying.
Yeah,
We took the stand to openly admit CG makes MOST of our products. I have enough crap going on and I don't have time to make up stories about my chemical plant that doesn't exist. LOL I figure you are all smart enough you would figure out I am not making products in my bath tub.
We took the stand to openly admit CG makes MOST of our products. I have enough crap going on and I don't have time to make up stories about my chemical plant that doesn't exist. LOL I figure you are all smart enough you would figure out I am not making products in my bath tub.
Junebug
JAFO
Manufacturing - whether polishes or DVD players are mostly out-sourced anyway. Few companies do it all - maybe Megs, 3M and I think Optimum, but so what, shop around - find something that works and you like and be happy.
Setec Astronomy
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Danase said:Yeah,
We took the stand to openly admit CG makes MOST of our products. I have enough crap going on and I don't have time to make up stories about my chemical plant that doesn't exist. LOL I figure you are all smart enough you would figure out I am not making products in my bath tub.
But what about your chemist? Can't you tell us about him? :dig Just kidding, man...I think CG's screwed all their relabel customers by selling direct.
Danase said:
I think they did as well. Big time. But, without them, a small guy like be could not have his own line. Which is what I like.
I respectfully disagree. They don't disclose who they relabel for, you did. CG is a manufacturer/retailer...why would they limit the scope of their customer base? Seems good business to me to be able to serve both the small retailer and the end user simultaneously.
jac43 said:
I guess you just don't understand how most chemical places work. A few of my products come from another source and that source doesn't sell to the public and doesn't have a web site showing all of thier chemicals pictures. CG didn't hurt me one bit. The guys that got burned where the ones that got established through CG products and told everyone they had chemical plants and then CG starts selling to the products themselves factory direct. Trust me, I would do the same, I am not saying anything negative about them. CG has been freaking great to me!
BlackElantraGT
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Bob, were there any contractual agreements that you know of that disallowed CG from selling it directly? I find it a bit uncommon too that they're competing with their customers. It seems too easy to do business that way. If a reseller gets a product at a certain cost and has to maintain MSRP of $XX.XX to make profit, then to kill off your competition sell the same product in the same retail channel for less than the reseller's MSRP. Since they control the prices, the power is all in their hands.
In that sense, it's not fair to those resellers. I'm glad your honesty worked out in your favor.
In that sense, it's not fair to those resellers. I'm glad your honesty worked out in your favor.
BlueZero
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If I'm not mistaken CG doesn't make all their products either. Relabeling doesn't bother me at all as long as they are honest up front like Bob is. Wouldn't even bother me if they didn't say either way. There is so much relabeling in other markets as well. I was looking for an air purifier and learned that Sharp makes the some of the Kenmore ones.
Adam's Polishes
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My favorite part of the Costco link:
I bet my business would triple if I started telling my customers all their cars would be finished off with a "Happy Ending" :lol
I bet my business would triple if I started telling my customers all their cars would be finished off with a "Happy Ending" :lol
BlackElantraGT
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Dylan06SS said:
Just hope your customers don't take it too literally, otherwise you might be polishing more than just their car
ninjalogan
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Just wait for the first sweaty, wife beater wearing, beer-bellied, over the road truck driver to pull up and say, "I heered there was some polishin goin' on round here. You da lizard with da happy endins?"
Setec Astronomy
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BlueZero said:
Well, I'm not sure that's really accurate. I haven't researched this as much as some of you, but IIRC when CG's first hit the scene, it was as more of a lower-level marketing arm for their parent, Warner Chemical. While a Warner private label order might be for a tank truck full, CG's did say, a 10 case qty. At some point, they decided they could/would compete with their customers, which I still don't understand.
BlueZero
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Setec Astronomy said:
Cool, thanks Mike. I was always wondered how they were all related. Warner Chemical and P&B Manufacturing seem to be the companies that actually "make" the chemicals. I wasn't sure if CG was buying stuff from them or if that was their parent company. It might be worth saying on the subject too that just because products are private label from a manufacture that they are the exact same. They vendor may have requested a custom blend of an existing chemical.