wholesale or direct supplies
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Forum Name: Car Audio
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Topic: wholesale or direct supplies
Posted By: heavy_haulers
Subject: wholesale or direct supplies
Date Posted: December 13, 2008 at 8:15 PM
Looking for common supplies for audio shop...Wire, RCAs, fuse holders, loom, carpet, etc. Anyone know of a good place to purchase at wholesale prices? My current supplier is also the local audio store/distributer and I'm almost paying retail on supplies. I've looked at a couple of ebay stores, but would rather deal with a real distributer not some ebay store front.
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Posted By: the12volt
Date Posted: December 13, 2008 at 9:00 PM
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Posted By: reax222
Date Posted: December 14, 2008 at 3:45 AM
Do you have brands you like?
I liked dealing with metra. They took pretty good care of us, carried more stuff than we needed and were only 30 miles away if we had an emergency. They have a website with the tools and such, installbay.com I think. Then metra online will link you their various brands.
Posted By: fiberglasslvr
Date Posted: December 14, 2008 at 7:37 PM
along with metra and scosche i use select products, they have everything for custom car audio, including fiberglass and acc, intergration pieces from nav-tv and pac. and tons more check them out
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Posted By: heavy_haulers
Date Posted: December 14, 2008 at 9:41 PM
Thanks, I looked thru the online products from SP and Metra, I think I'll check SP out for wire, and some accessories. I did not find RCA patch cables on either site. I sell from the cheaper no name styles to the high end street wires and monster. Right now paying 7.50 for 12' no namer. I know they have to cheaper somewhere else. Any ideals?
Posted By: carguy411
Date Posted: December 14, 2008 at 9:58 PM
microalarm.com
is pretty good
Posted By: paidnfull
Date Posted: December 15, 2008 at 9:46 AM
we get alotof our stuff from aamp of america
Posted By: ceasar326
Date Posted: December 15, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Whats the diffrens between wholesale or direct supplies? I have a few warehouse locations were I get my stuff and looks like ppl can buy on the internet same price i get at the warehouse with me having a tax ID. What can you gain if you have a tax ID, cant compete with the internet market.
Posted By: daburrrninator
Date Posted: December 15, 2008 at 5:31 PM
DBL Distributing has good prices on Metra. For a 4 gauge Raptor Amp kit it was less than what I could find it for on ebay after the shipping. Ceaser326 is right though, the wholesale prices arent very competitive with online prices a lot of times because online sellers mark them up the bare minimum they need to to make a profit.
Posted By: reax222
Date Posted: December 16, 2008 at 4:18 AM
I forgot about AAMP. If you follow the links for Tsunami or Raptor they will both have RCAs, Raptor being the lower end and Tsunami being the higher end. Basically they are set up as distributors for those companies, but I think they are all one company. Choose either the Raptor or Tsunami line for the wiring, Metra's own line carries the kits, and axxiss does their integration.
We bough from metra and they allowed up some room after some wheeling and dealing and hitting certain order limits. Such as the antenna lines, we got a much better deal buying 6 at a time than 3-4.
Posted By: megaman
Date Posted: December 16, 2008 at 8:36 AM
aamp of america. You can get everything you need for car audio installation in one spot. They carry Best Kits, and Harnesses, Stinger, Peripheral, and everything in between. I dealt with these guys for years, and their service is top notch, products are great, and their prices are extremely competitive.
Posted By: CutDog504
Date Posted: December 17, 2008 at 12:17 AM
I've done hundreds of installs over the years out of my garage. I've dealt with partsexpress.com and thebettersource.com Both have decent prices, probably even better if you open up a wholsale account, which you can do if you have a tax id number(which I dont). But even without a tax ID number I've purchased numerous things like install kits for like 7 or 8 bucks, door lock actuators, for like 4-5 bucks, radio harnesses for like 3-4 bucks, etc. I've purchased a LOT of install supplies like screws, crimps, terminals, wire, relays, loom, etc. for MUCH cheaper than I could even find at local stores and even other websites, even Ebay. I've also dealt with select products, but they are pretty expensive.
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