A couple of years ago, when we were talking about oil filters,
Ray posted a link to a site that sold them by the case for $8.16
each, with free shipping:
http://archives.dakota-truck.net/0307/2410.html
I noticed I was getting low on oil filters so I thought I might
post to see if there was any interest in getting a bunch of us
together to buy some oil filters and share in the savings. There
are 2 bits of bad news though, when I went to the site Ray mentioned,
they had increased the price to $8.97 per filter which isn't too
bad, but unfortunately it looks like they have discontinuted the
practice of free shipping on a case of oil filters. Now they want
approximately six million dollars for standard ground shipping, which
brings the oil filters up to about $11.30 each, not exactly a smoking
deal considering you can walk into any Autozone and get them for
$12.99. (Granted, you would have to pay tax at Autozone, so the
savings would be around $2.70 or so per filter, but I figured we could
do better.) Anyway, I decided to try checking some other places
and after some Google (Froogle) searching, I found www.car-stuff.com
which sells K&N filters for $9.95 each, and if you buy more than $50
worth of stuff, the shipping is free. So basically if we order 6 or
more filters, we can get them for $9.95 each. Compared to the standard
Autozone price, that's a savings of about $4 each. Plus, a bonus to
ordering them from the car-stuff.com site (or a similar one) is that
since we don't have to order by the case, we can get all sorts of
different applications, not just one case of the same filter. So
if you've got any brand x vehicles that you want filters for, or
anything different than the standard 3.9/5.2/5.9 filter, you can
take advantage of this as well.
Would anyone be interested in doing something like this? We
can divvy them up at the BBQ. (If you can't make the BBQ, maybe
another DMLer who lives close to you and who is planning to go to
the BBQ would be willing to pick up your filter(s) for you.) I
am also currently planning to go to the Mopar Nats so I could meet
up with folks there.
I'm not doing this to try to make any money or anything like
that (I'll charge you whatever they cost me). Even if nobody
else is interested, I'll probably still place an order just for
myself - I've got enough vehicles that need filters to get to
the $50 free shipping level fairly easily. :-) I just figured
some other folks might be interested in getting in on the savings,
since otherwise in order to get the same deal you'd need to order
a bunch of filters that would probably rust before you could
get around to using them. :-) Sure, its only $4, but every
little bit helps! :-)
Anyhoo, if anyone is interested in this, just let me know. (Also,
if anyone knows of a place selling K&N filters cheaper than $9.95
each, I'd be interested in that too!) :-)
--
-Jon-
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