I have been in the past, and will be again in the future, a member of their
"shipper's club" and it is a great deal if you buy smaller items with any
regularity.
About three years ago I know that had to have lost money on shipping to me as I
went kinda crazy buying stuff I needed when I was setting up my "shop" to start
the restoration of my Dad's car.
Tim
---- mike rambour <mikey@b2systems.com> wrote:
=============
I don't know about the welder as both my MIG and TIG are Lincoln, I
want to get parts TODAY when I need them, not have to order them and
wait to weld that broken whatever on my car. And before it sounds like
I am ragging on Eastwood, I am in their buyers club and buy a lot from
them (mostly powder) but Eastwood's shipping dept. is a profit center
for them. They do not in any way try to get low prices on shipping,
they are out to make money on shipping. So when you want that cool
whatever from them always consider the shipping before you buy.
mike
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 09:16 -0800, Tim wrote:
> So if I understand correctly Dave, you don't think that this Eastwood model
>is worth $300 (more like $350+ with shipping)? And I can most likely find a
>small MIG for less?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim
>
> ---- David Scheidt <dmscheidt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> =============
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I saw an ad from Eastwood announcing a new MIG welder:
> >
> > http://www.eastwood.com/mig-welder-110vac-135a-output.html
> >
> > The interesting thing is, both outside and inside, it looks exactly like a
> > Lincoln model. Has Lincoln made an EM deal with them, or are both Eastwood
> > and Lincoln getting them from some third party?
> >
> > I have had a similar model from Lincoln for 6 years or so, and it has
> > served me well. Considering that Eastwood stuff is generally somewhat
> > overpriced, their price on this unit seems unusually low.
> >
> >
> It's a chinese copy of the Lincoln. (I don't know where lincoln builds
> their low end welders these days, for a while they were built in Mexico.
> Don't know if they still are. It could well come out of the same factory.
> But even the US made ones have lots of chinese parts in them.) If eastwood
> is selling it for $300, it probably means others are for 200. Eastwood,
> being Eastwood, neglect to mention the country of origin.
>
> There are quite good welders coming out of china these days. There's also
> junk. Depends on the bits in the box. (quality of transformer, choice of
> the power transistors, mostly.) I hate to say it, but it's 2010, and a mig
> welder is no longer anywhere near high tech.
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