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christo65 · 26-03-2008

G'day all,

As a newbie to Alfa ownership, for the last couple of weeks I've been frantically diving into the internet at every opportunity searching for suppliers of 'this' or manufacturers of 'that'. What I've found however is that there seem to be very few online suppliers for Classic 105 / 116 / 'other series' / Alfas. So far, I have uncovered the obvious ones, Alfaholics, Highwood, Classic Alfa, RE-Originals, and most of those have rudimentary forms of e-commerce facilities, which is good. Not great, but 'good'.

I personally would like to see them all move to modern e-commerce platforms and have images for every product they sell with part numbers and proper descriptions, but I always want for things to be better than they are. Why is that?

What I'm wondering is whether we could pool our collective supplier knowledge and form a 'sticky thread' that is always at the top of the forum which lists all online suppliers with links to their sites and a description of what they offer.

Also, I suggest that we should encourage other lesser known suppliers to get online and build their businesses, to share their knowledge and inventory with the owners who want to get to know and transact with them. Moving to an e-commerce platform is not expensive these days. The biggest hurdle is photographing and writing descriptions of products. But what do we have kids for anyway?

What do you guys think? If I'm barking up the wrong tree or this has been discussed, or done before can somebody point me in the right direction. Otherwise, I hope I can get your support and make this an even better resource for us all.

Cheers,

Chris (....trying not to sound to evangelical about e-commerce)

26-03-2008	#1 (Post Link)
christo65 Newbie Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Perth Australia Posts: 48 Member car: 1979 116 Alfetta GTV 2L	Classic Alfa Suppliers List G'day all, As a newbie to Alfa ownership, for the last couple of weeks I've been frantically diving into the internet at every opportunity searching for suppliers of 'this' or manufacturers of 'that'. What I've found however is that there seem to be very few online suppliers for Classic 105 / 116 / 'other series' / Alfas. So far, I have uncovered the obvious ones, Alfaholics, Highwood, Classic Alfa, RE-Originals, and most of those have rudimentary forms of e-commerce facilities, which is good. Not great, but 'good'. I personally would like to see them all move to modern e-commerce platforms and have images for every product they sell with part numbers and proper descriptions, but I always want for things to be better than they are. Why is that? What I'm wondering is whether we could pool our collective supplier knowledge and form a 'sticky thread' that is always at the top of the forum which lists all online suppliers with links to their sites and a description of what they offer. Also, I suggest that we should encourage other lesser known suppliers to get online and build their businesses, to share their knowledge and inventory with the owners who want to get to know and transact with them. Moving to an e-commerce platform is not expensive these days. The biggest hurdle is photographing and writing descriptions of products. But what do we have kids for anyway? What do you guys think? If I'm barking up the wrong tree or this has been discussed, or done before can somebody point me in the right direction. Otherwise, I hope I can get your support and make this an even better resource for us all. Cheers, Chris (....trying not to sound to evangelical about e-commerce)