You have made more than one thread about the price of new stihl parts. Mark - to be honest u are a collector and not a user. If I didn't have to use the saws maybe i'd collect the saws u do, but I'm not a collector. To be quite honest, I was a collector once upon a time, but not anymore. To each their own I guess...but their are probably a ton of examples out there about a stihl dealer screwing somebody, a husky dealer, a jonsered dealer, a dolmar dealer etc....but who cares? Heck...maybe a Poulan dealer screwed somebody once? Is that saying all Stihl, Husky, Jonsered, Dolmar dealers are bad? Nope...I personally have a good dealer that sells stihl, husky, and jonsered. It is just your agenda to try to propogate that Stihl, Husky, Jonsered, Dolmar are evil. Like I say to each their own I guess.
I wish I could just collect saws and not use my saws to save on heating, but I guess I live in a cold climate and I'm trying to be too conservative.
Brad, your quite good it seems at throwing crap at the wall in hopes some of it will stick. Well it ain't sticking very well for you today.
I'm glad you know all about me and what I do and dont do as well.
What I personally do really has nothing to do with it. For the record I do not cut so much anymore, I dont have to. I have a good job and can afford to heat my house with gas, and I can forget the trouble of having to work my ass off on the side cutting wood to stay warm.
That dont mean that I never had to do that as I did, for quite a while actually. I still cut some wood to heat my shop and probably work on many more saws in a year then you do. Lots of them and lots of different brands.
Now go and find all the many threads I started #####ing about Stihl parts prices. I'll be here waiting.......
I have posted a few times on the way my local Stihl dealers do business, the way they dont stock Stihl proprietary and consumable parts along with the PITA way of odereing those parts and paying shipping regardless of the fact if the said order was on there weekly order or a special order.
Why do you really care if I dont like that or not? It seems you do not and might be why you drug me into this thread?
"Modified mark...your brand of choice hasn't been a significant marketshare for how many years? Why get your shorts in a knot..the top tier chainsaws are doing well and progressing technology and we are all reaping the rewards."
This is your quote and shows how wrong you are. Your too busy cutting wood I guess to figure out that the Poulan brand is sill out there selling consumer saws at a pretty good clip and still making Husqvarna some dough.
Nope there not the same saws of old but there selling them everyday none the less. Some are just as good for the money as your beloved POS 025/MS250's.
Now that I did get drug into this thread that I didnt want to get wound into....
I dont really care where Stihl sells there saws as I have choices and dont have to deal with them at all. At this moment I do not own one Stihl saw but that dont mean that I wont. They have some good stuff and some highly over rated here pieces of junk also.
I do see the writing on the wall though, Stihl see's it to0. They cannot keep up the way there going in these days. People want the convenience of being able to order there parts with a couple mouse clicks, not only that, at the price of gas these days, there not going to make two trips to the dealer to get there parts either. The first trip to find they dont have the part and to get it ordered, the second trip to pick it up.
Thats just crazy anymore. Still cannot just change it over night though with all the BS they have spread for years about taking care of there dealers. Just look whats going on though, seems there working slowly that way.
Then again, take that with a grain of salt, I'm just a collector who doesn't know anything.
Oh and btw, these are sitting on my shop floor. No there not mine, but it seems in all that you know about me, you wouldnt think that I would work on these. Shows how little you know about me. Thanks again for dragging me into this thread.
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