Aircraft Spruce - are these people for real?

[jaredyates]

I love a good vendetta as much as the next guy but I'm not sure how you can be in the plane building/flying/owning hobbies without them.

[davzLSA]

Hey Jared I think if you look enough you can side step ACS. I intend to do this.

[Utah-Jay]

I love a good vendetta as much as the next guy but I'm not sure how you can be in the plane building/flying/owning hobbies without them.

Seems I order from ACS nearly everyday

[TrueAirSpeed]

If you’re a military veteran, and furnish them with the appropriate paperwork they will discount your purchases. I think it’s 5%.

[davzLSA]

Im a vet and I have the "discount" with them but it does not apply to everything they sell. I does not matter for me because they have lost my business,

[geraldmorrissey]

I love a good vendetta as much as the next guy but I'm not sure how you can be in the plane building/flying/owning hobbies without them.

Simple, Airparts, Spencer Aircraft and National Aircraft. Spencer and National are a short drive away for me. Between the three I can fab, maintain and repair. Spruce is not the only game in town.
Gerry
Patrol #30

[svyolo]

I am 98% very happy with ACS. A few things they made a mistake, and corrected it, once a bit begrungingly. I almost get the idea they are making more money on shipping than they are markup on parts. Once, they noticed some discrepancies in shipping, and refunded me a couple of hundred bucks. But their shipping charges don't seem to jive with what they ship a lot of the time.

Might be their software, might be intentional. I am mostly happy, and on a lot of stuff they are the only game in town. I think Summit Racing's shipping rates and 1/2 the shipping time of ACS, if I can order from Summit, I do.

Wicks lost me on the hardware kit.

[davzLSA]

Don't tell summit racing you are buying parts for an airplane. It could get the sales clerk fired. They say on their web site and in their catalogs they don't sell airplane parts.

[James]

This thread's still going!!
Never realised this was going to be such a topical post :-)

[Wyo Johnson]

You started it OZ it think its tropical...