What's Up with You Guys?!?!?
 

I'm going to say things are bad, but sales are down this week for the fourth week in a row. This is after making a huge jump earlier this year.

Okay, so my question is, "is everyone just stockpiling cash and not spending it on their cars?" "What is your outlook for the future?" Everyone beginning to spend on something else? Temporary blip? Everyone busy out on the lakes and rivers enjoying themselves? Driving their car instead of working on it?

Please let me know what you're thinking...

-Wayne

Hey... I bought your 101 911 Projects book a couple of weeks ago :)

-MAS

What's it compare to same time last year? Generally speaking car part sales should be down. People are driving their cars and hopefully not working on them. For example, I know I need to do my valve guides, but plan on driving this summer and fall and doing the work starting in December.

The weather was really bad around here this spring. Most everyone is out driving...waiting till later in the season. I have a mile long project list slated for the Fall. BTW, I still have parts left over from my last Pelican purchase(yet to be installed).
Rick
'78 930

I agree, it is driving season, not working season. Plus, so many people take their vacations this time of year, out of town with families, it is hot in most garages in July/August and not much fun fighting off the misquitoes while reaching for the torque wrench for us driveway mechanics. This is one of the reasons you see Performance offering their discounts in the summer, trying to keep the sales up. (Wayne-this is not a sale suggestion, just an observation)

I just placed an order for a new s hose this week.

theres a word... it's, it's, it's a recess, recessio.., can't bring myself to say that word!

did ya see the employment numbers today?

sorry to hear that Porsche-o-philes aren't immune.

I was spending a bunch on my P-car early this year and the couple years before. Now I'm done.

Lakes and rivers.

I finally got my engine installed....that's why your sales are down!! I was making almost weekly orders (and they weren't small) there for awhile. I had to take a break. :>)

Mike

Yeah, that's me, just stockpiling cash. The living room was getting a bit deep in small bills and we swept some into the foyer. It just piles up if you don't keep after it. So you're saying I should send you some?

Wayne. One thing I might add is that the 963/993 board is sort of slow. A recent poster waited for some time to get an answer and said he would go to a different board to get the answer. People are trying the other PP boards but there just isn't enough traffic. These are potential customers. You were really active early on in getting this board going. Maybe put someone over there to answer more questions and provide a source for parts. I know alot of people stick to the Rennlist board for 964/994 and 996 questions. With the older cars dwindling in numbers and people moving up to the later cars it seems the market will eventually shift. Perhaps this is what is starting to happen?

I'm out driving too. At least at night, man it's hot! Plus, like some of the others, my car is almost complete. A few things here and there (explains some of my small orders lately). Last big purchase was for Carerra chain tensioners, but they haven't been installed yet. I'm sure I'll f@#k something up when I do it, so stay tuned! :)

Hope it doesn't hurt too much. I know you just hired some peeps. .

What's the trend like compared to this time last year?

I'll be buying parts for my wrecked 911 once I settle some issues with the other guy's insurance company.

My problem is I have only needed little stuff lately and the shipping cost as much as the part if I get it from pelican. If I lived in the west I would use you guys all the time. I know the guys in town I get my parts from get them from Dave White in Tampa. Most of the time its about a dollar over your price. For me its the shipping.

remember that thread on the age of the average pelicanhead? if i recall, 95% of us are in our mid to early 30's. that means we are starting families and have less time to tinker with our "toys"

i don't even have time to drive my porsche often enough so that the battery doesn't discharge itself. it is currently sitting in my garage with a dead battery. (i'll get it going this weekend though, hopefully).

I'd guess it's just the normal ebb and flow of any business. A temporary blip.

I would think it would be easy to over-analyze this stuff -- if you flip a quarter long enough, you'll get some freakishly long stretches of all tails or all heads.

Interest rates dramatically increasing...... refinance activity down 35%+ in the past 2 weeks. A huge portion of the consumer spending over the past 2 years has come from cash-out refinance activity. All of the new deficit spending is resulting in massive new treasury issuances coming to market, this new supply is pushing interest rates up faster than ever before. Refinance will no longer be helping the economy. Job growth is flat.

Expect consumer spending to tail off over the coming months. Say thank you to GWB and Alan Greenspan.

Totally agree about the shipping thing. I need to order a bunch of things but I tend to save them up till I get enough to warrent the insane shipping charges to Michigan.

I knew someone just had to get a shot in on Bush...yes 2 guys are to blame for it all again...

Placed my 31st order with you guys since Aug 02' last Wed. Hang tight and things will pick up...

-BG