Price differences and inflation defense, up to you

[2type2]

Watch your FLAPS, online or wherever. As an example I recently found:
Permatex Right Stuff ,90 min., 3 oz tube---
autozon $17.99/orally $16.999/walworld $8.30, just smh. Seems more than greedy, it's thieving.
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[busdaddy]

You're just noticing this now?, you pay extra for convenience at most FLAPS, an extra few bucks for the "one stop shop" that delivers.
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[vwracerdave]

The difference is YOU driving to Walmart and Amazon delivering it to your door. There is no such thing as free delivery.
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[oprn]

I recently bought a dipstick tube for the Wife's '05 Golf. I called NAPA and it was overnight. Looked it up on Amazon, free delivery in a week $8 and change. I went with the one from NAPA and when it arrived it was $43 and didn't fit properly!
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[raygreenwood]

As we all know...this price hike really started compounding about 2.5 years ago.

The Mann fuel filter for my 2012 Golf was right at $19 and peaks of $23 in early 2020.
Now, if you go to NAPA, their NAPA gold version is $64. The actual MANN filter if they can get it is about $33 today....down a little from about $42 6 months ago.

Advance and Autozone are ~$39.

Yes, I can still get it online at FCP, ECS tuning, Amazon and Rockauto in the $22 range...but then shipping so you better buy enough stuff at one time to make it worthwhile.

Yes, some of the local FLAPS have other brands that are much cheaper ...but I will not do that with this part because the fuel filter on these cars is the primary fuel pressure regulator. The only two brands I will use are Mann or Hengst. Everything else i have tried as replacement part #'s are enough different that the car runs strange for weeks. Ray

[Abscate]

Best inflation hedge, returning my third set of 10 oil filters to FCP under their lifetime replacement warranty. I’ve got 5 cars in the fleet alll using the same filter, for the win
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[blankc72]

I'll wait until I have enough from ECS or shopdap.com to get free shipping and buy all at once. If I want OEM anything it has to be ordered because the dealers where I am are way too expensive. I'll also look at 1stvwparts and sometimes buy from them.