I have to agree with others, the Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales were pretty disappointing this year. I was ready to spend some serious coinage with LMR to take care of long-standing wish list items. However, the only markdowns I saw were on J&M products. There weren't any of the usual discounts on their own restoration or upgrade parts, as well as lacking the usual 6% off discount code. (I'm really missing the old 10% off days, especially from before MI charged sales tax on internet orders!) This prompted me to just hold off on any purchases until I'm closer to the actual work or they offer some better deals. There's no pressure to make purchases in November for spring/summer projects without a good deal on the parts. The same goes for Summit and Jegs, where I scored a couple items from the Jegs tool sales, but I didn't see any good markdowns on parts.
kind of why I'm going full on budget with my 79, prices for sbf or mustang stuff has gotten really stupid and discounts are far and few from companies and most brands, whole supply chain is still a mess with padded profits at each layer so I can under stand why there not offering them, Add in many parts And tols now are straight from China and branded with logos at insane mark ups to. Valvetrain stuff is getting really shady with private equity at the manufacturing level, lots of corner cutting from the PE owners to cut costs and sourcing.
I'm even grabbing junk off temu which still has crazy promos, and good for the cheaper automotive tools that if you can due math on the fly, ignore all there gambling tactics, crappy offers and stupid gaming design of it. You can get some decent stuff for dirt cheap, if you know what your buying, you can even get money back..
At some point they will cut me off because the have to be losing money with pretty much everything I've bought, some ones paying the us shipping workers. They claim I've spent over 7k with them. I've spent less than $1k out of pocket since I started buying stuff off there last year, I doubt it even covered the shipping costs or tarrifs for all the stuff I've bought. They had decent body shop supplies for cheap, decent hook and loop or psa sand paper and that stuff isn't cheap anywhere, same for other consumables in work like that. I just use there promos and credit back offers to my advantage, even using there credit, to earn more credit and stuff free to me They just had a promo called credit777 where if you spent 200 in one order they let you claim 200 back threw PayPal, the catch is you claim it over 7 days, if you miss a claim your out the highest days worth, first days like claim $4 back last day is $70, totals $200 after claiming all 7 days. Really kind of read everything and understand there sales tactics to take advantage of it.
What they bank on since the app is a pita to use and you need to use key words to pull up these claims page every day. Its meant for impulse buying, and dopamine hits for all the ppl who where raised on loot box games as kids, like most of social media stuff is now, scammy ass sales tactics, fomo, hype etc just not everything has the over inflated prices you see these days.. I used that promo 4 times this month, and they payed me 800 back threw paypal, more than what I spent out of pocket, moneys all ready back in my bank account like I never spent it, even got like 40 back in credit to use later that stays on the app, from overlaping promo's. Most orders where around $220 each, I was using the money back for the last few rounds of it. The just gave me another one, but tried to be tricky this time and hid that it was a sliding scale from 10% capped at 40% back in the fine print, so that one is really spend $500 to get 200 back, they throw in crappy promos, flash graphics about count down timers, confusing wording and math all the time to try and confuse buyers so I'm sure there still making money of most of them. And damn if your into the cheap LS combo stuff you can pretty much build an entire combo using that app, just don't cheap out on the valvetrain parts lol, you can pretty much buy all the China sourced Holley LS parts off it. I've had promos where the ship crap from China by air for .01 in credit, there now limiting that with minimum order amounts
I made over $200 from them just on those 4 orders, got a crap load of stuff for free, ranging from automotive tools to stuff for my 79 and other projects. Got a vevor induction heating tool kit for rusty hardware, cpl auto tool kits like big axle sockets sets, cooling pressure testor kits, 12 ton vevor press, a power probe kit, an ozone tool, etc.. same tool stuff you see getting branded by summit, jegs, on Amazon, vevor, ebay even walmart and homedepot these days. All the marketplace type sites. Tool stuff pretty much covered my Christmas shopping this year for male family members. Even got a 14" full size memory foam mattress for a rv that's $250 on amazon, same brand and everything, a complete evil energy ptfe line kit for the fuel system for my 79, upholstery materials like rolls of cabron fiber wrap, rolls of headliner material, wiring supplies like the DT connector kits, bus bars & mega fuse holders for when I rewire it. 4pc led 4x6 lights, a billet 8.8 girdle. Whole bunch of junk I can use or have used in the past. Doing my duty, being a cheap ass with online purchases and making China lose $ sending me junk, at the same time not rewarding the compaines who outsourced & took those products to china to be cloned in the first place.
