How the disabled are ripped off

Very annoying! To some extent, this is just the same as any spare parts operation - for a car, for example. There is a cost involved in stocking

I have no idea why your batteries are more expensive than for golf buggies. Are you comparing with manufacturer's specific parts for named brand buggies, or generic batteries?

That was Johnny Cash AICMFP.

My favourite country and Johnny Cash record

due to low sales. So buy elsewhere. Anything you want to buy you can pay ot t for.

NT

Not comparable.

Same batteries, same make, same capacity, same everything. Different retailer.

Bill

Well, the parts cost home nothing in the song!

No it isn't. It's because the market is relatively captive. Many disabled and old people don't shop around. They just go back to the shop where they bought the scooter (which probably cost them twice the price the shop paid.)

Bill

Better call at the Grand Ol Opry if ever you're in the USA. You might get to like other C & W tracks like I Flushed You From The Toilets Of My Heart, Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth 'Cause I'm Kissing You Goodbye, My John Deere Was Breaking Your Field While Your Dear John Was Breaking My Heart, You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith Too, If You Don't Believe I Love You Just Ask My Wife, and so on . . .

Bill

But that doesn't explain why the same battery is available for a golf buggy for 40% of the price. Or the toggle switch which is widely available elsewhere at 1/10th of the price. Or the keys which cost three times as much in a disabilty shop as in a key cutting kiosk.

michael adams

...

To be fair, a 50% markup in a shop is pretty normal

Of course. But if shop A charges £100, and shop B charges £40, something is wrong. The markup must be higher in shop A.

I expect you'll have met Dolly Parton at a library near Rother Ham?

No, I missed her!

Bill

peple are free to buy elsewhere

that's their choice, they're not forced to. Overpriced goods aren't hard to find in any sector.

NT

It happens all the time. People routinely trade cost for convenience.

NT

Bill Wright scribbled

The rip off starts with the cost of the scooters.

Prices adjusted for NHS

There are too many parasites making a good living in this country. From bankers to solicitors to retailers.

/There are too many parasites making a good living in this country. From bankers to solicitors to retailers. /Q

Tongue in cheek shurely?

Jim K