Craptastic vendor web sites

[pfarber]

Its amazing that in 2014 with the vast majority of vendor sales coming via the internet that a business would decide to have the shittiest possible web site for a potential customer to use.

Peter Debella's craptastic web site used 40 JAVASCRIPT buttons... all which fire off a security warning:

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It was so bad that I had to kill the browser app via task manager. I'd like to find the 8 year old that designed that site and kick him in the nads.

Brent Mullins web site used to be pretty good. Now its just links to PDF documents.. no search function at all. Really?

Army Jeep Parts has a catalog and a search, but just about every photo is blank. So why waste screen space on a photo that is useless? How about take some photos? You know.. help the customer?

I will note that Ron Fitzpatrick and Bensinger Jeep parts both do a very good job, but really only list the standard MD Juan parts.

The others? I have them book marked, but their web sites force me not to buy from them.

[pfarber]

I won't even start on some of the prices vendors charge..... or worse, people pay.. but ebay:

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$10 each from a vendor or 8 for $25 from an engine seller. NOS is NOS. $80 vs $25.

[pfarber]

FYI the seller that listed the 8 tappets for $25 is actually a Jeep vendor. He lists them on his site for $2 each. I may have paid $0.50 more per adjuster but now I have the entire weight of Paypal and Ebay on my side if things get hinkey. Worth it.