I have been doing quite a bit of browsing on E-Bay and other parts suppliers and you have to be carefull for sure what you bid on.. Word to the wise if a seller named BARRYSCHEVYWORLD is selling 95% chance you can buy it cheaper alot of places.. He is way out of line.. For what it is worth maybe save a fellow Elky owner a few bucks...

Doesn't reply to e-mails either....I don't deal with him!

I've seen his auctions. Most of the items he sells are still available at your local GM dealership for half the price of the opening bid, and you don't need to pay shipping. There are a few more like him too.

Thanks for the tip. I recently bought a heater control unit for my Elky. Got it off ebay for 63 dollars(shipping included). Got it from RedMan4Life, he has quite a bit of elky parts, which I am about to post on here :)

He seems quite reliable. I haven't seen heater controls for a 77 anywhere else, and it was before I found this site, so I am not sure if I was robbed or not heh. Can't beat that price for what heater controls for these new cars go for....

I buy items off Ebay for my Elky quite often. Prior to bidding I always click on the sellers "feedback" to see what kind of person I'm dealing with. I guess I've been pretty lucky, I've only had one bad transaction. If you feel that a seller is asking too much for an item, it is your choice to bid or not. I notice that this particular seller does have quite a few comments about slow shipping. I have also emailed him to see if he had a particular item that I was looking for...he did...at about twice the price anyone else was selling it for. Soooooo I never returned his email...and I never bought it from him.

You can pretty much rest assured if it is a new OEM replacement part, and it's on ebay, it's also available at the dealer, and probably at a lesser price. I usually do not buy new items from the guys and gals with thousands of feedbacks because these are generally people making a living doing ebay.... if they can buy it somewhere else, so can I. I do, however, buy a lot of used stuff.
I also sell a few items on ebay myself. I attempt to find and sell items that I do not see others selling, or items that are not readily available from the dealerships.... I also sell a few used elky parts. I make my living running my shop and fixing cars, yet I manage to list a handful of items every month....helps support my elcaminocentral habit!

I am taking the time to respond to some unfound criticisms on this webpage by some members. It is always interesting to be attacked by people you don't know. Yeah I know, there are always the crackpots who either think they know everything or have their own little agenda, but it still surprises me. Sometimes though you have to make a statement, otherwise the uniformed become what people at least perceive as the informed.

Anyway to the task at hand. I sell alot of items by ebay, phone and local as well as making some products and doing local customer work. I have been selling parts for 78-88 El Camino's, Malibu's and Monte Carlo's since 1991. I started with mostly used parts. I have been adding more reproduction parts and some nos parts when and where I find them. If I buy them from GM and people chose to buy from me then there are a few possibilities for why they do so. One possibility is that they are just in a hurry, or their local dealership said the part was no longer available (it happens alot). Most of the time they do not have access to the part number, or the part number has changed several times through the life of the part. Sometimes parts go out of stock and actually come back into stock. I also think people come to me because I have a nice cross section of parts they can order at one time. Many people who do not have selling experience with ebay criticize pricing. I don't have a problem when people don't buy because of pricing it's a free market economy, but I do have a problem with uniformed people who basically gossip online about something that is not true, especially when they don't take the time to find out or that they have a hidden agenda. Why else would someone trash you that has not bought anything from you and doesn't know you personally?

The items that get hurt on ebay are the parts that are less than $20. Ebay has fees, and many times those fee's effect pricing, especially on the cheaper items and especially if you don't sell the part the first time. The choice then is to either not offer that item, even though people may really be looking for it, or increase the price until you feel it is worth putting the item on ebay. If people still buy it then I guess they are willing to pay the price. Some people with website catalogs can sell it for cheaper and I say more power to them, but if that's an absolute than I would never sell any cheaper priced items, and that's not the case. One thing I know to be true is, ebay is not getting any cheaper.

As to the items $21 and up. I am always aware what GM sells their parts for. Sometimes I have gotten the piece from them. But there is one thing for sure, if the price is not competitive it does not sell. Period. If the part is not available from GM, then the nos part is strictly what the market will bare. As far as my being overpriced you better look to some catalog websites for overpricing. I have bought items from many of them and their prices are usually higher than mine and so is the shipping. They also have items in their catalog that when ordered are out of stock or don't come back into stock for several months. Example: OPG and the bed corner chrome 78-88 EC's. I have been waiting for over two months.

That leads to one other comment. Shipping quickly is important and I try, but I am a one and half man company and sometimes it take two to three weeks to ship, which bothers me, but I am way more concerned about the quality of product and good communication. I always list my telephone number on my ads and warn about slow email times. Also I have close to 600 auctions and 97.5% positive feedback rating.

Last item. Many people in car clubs expect to get the best buys on parts.
They are "usually" more knowledgable than the average guy, but if they want "buys", they should work out a deal with their local dealership (clubs usually do) or start to buy and sell some used parts themselves (what was that the wife said about the "junk in the garage"?), otherwise I do not see a difference between them and the casual customer. I have been in a few car clubs and restored many, many show winners, but I know about the politics, so some club members can be alot of trouble. I'm sorry, but I am just being honest. If this weren't case, I probably wouldn't have to write this letter.

Sincerely

Barry
Barry's Chevy World

I am taking the time to respond to some unfound criticisms on this webpage by some members. It is always interesting to be attacked by people you don't know. Yeah I know, there are always the crackpots who either think they know everything or have their own little agenda, but it still surprises me. Sometimes though you have to make a statement, otherwise the uniformed become what people at least perceive as the informed.
Welcome to ECC/NECOA Barry!

I stand by my previous statements. Just for the record, I am not a crackpot, nor do I have any agenda.

The criticism you describe is not unfounded. It is based on a factual comparison of the prices which you try to sell your parts for versus the list prices at a GM dealership that any Tom, Dick, or Harry can get if they walk in off the street. Even the prices for your used items are outrageous. I would never buy anything from you on ebay or elsewhere because I know what GM sells many of the same parts for. You can try to defend your position any way you want to but the bottom line is, the prices you are asking for most of your items are way out of line.

The purpose of this thread was to help other El Camino owners save some money on parts by making them aware of overpriced sellers like you. If you took this personally then maybe it's a confirmation of the above stated facts. If your ebay business has suffered as a result then maybe you should rethink your pricing structure.

You are exploiting the uninformed ebay buyer. If this is your ebay target customer you will soon find out, if you haven't already, that these people are the minority.

Here is a link to your ebay store: Barry's Chevy World ebay store (http://stores.ebay.com/Barrys-Chevy-World_W0QQsspagenameZL2QQtZkm)

Let others here look at your items for sale and see if they think these prices are reasonable or out of line. To all ECC members, caveat emptor.

I've also read about you barry on montecarloss.com awhile ago and they seem to think the same thing as our member here think, your prices are pretty high, slow response, and slow shipping. Take it for what you want but our members are just letting other members know what it is like to deal with you.

Chris

I have not had any dealings with Barry, so I caveat this comment with that one.

But Barry and everyone, ebay is all about the idea that people are basically honest and will pay a fair price - even to people they have never and probably will never meet - for a fair product that they may not be able to find through other venues. I realize that is VERY 'feel good' sort of liberal thinking, but for the most part, I have found it to be fairly true in over 5 years on ebay.

Barry may provide such a service to some people, and maybe some of you can find better prices elsewhere, but as long as he is not claiming his are lowest prices or his are rare products or making outlandish claims that are not factual, then he is doing nothing wrong - at least per ebay.

now Barry....as to the emails and other responses, that is not the ebay way, and people DO have the recourse to report you to ebay, so please try to respond promptly like you would expect others to do for you.

okay, now back to your regularly scheduled rant :P

Just to update this thread, BARRYSCHEVYWORLD is no longer doing business on ebay. I certainly hope that we've contributed to his demise. However, that doesn't mean that he won't rear his ugly head under another ebay user name.

As always, Caveat Emptor! :-D

Damnnn... Rough crowd, nice that you all have our backs with things like this. Good job guys. :)

excellent subject.... hurrayyyyyyyyy

8) Hey guys and gals! IMy sister-in-law and her husband have an ebay store. What I learned watching how they conduct business is the reason for long waits for your order. A lot of these ebayers do not not stock what they sell, instead they wait until you buy then they order the items from whom ever. Iknow my sister-in-law sometimes waits until they have a certain number of orders for a particular item so she can buy in bulk. It saves on delivery costs to her and sometimes she gets a better price.

PaPa John

hey barry go suck a flag pole and stop trying to defend yourself. Ur site is screwed as far as I'm concerned. no (if any) member of this site will deal with you anymore. one more tip, don't leave long ass boring messages. most people will get bored half way through and stop reading. I'm surprised i finished it.

I DIDNT SAY REAR END! that sux. o well u get what i was trying to say.

If you guys think his, or anybody elses prices are too high, don't buy the friggin parts.

There ought to be a law against slamming people on internet boards.

Post something useful!

John 8)

John

If you can save someone a little money with a like interest like El Caminos then why not.

Seems most of the people here appreciated the heads up!

They might even have been considered it USEFUL?

If you did not find it useful then pay whatever you like for your parts who cares!

I just don't appreciate the bashing of an individual.

It is childish.

You have to keep in mind that people sell items to make money. If a person's items seem high, just go buy somewhere else and dispense with the melodramatics.

John

I just don't appreciate the bashing of an individual.

It is childish.

You have to keep in mind that people sell items to make money. If a person's items seem high, just go buy somewhere else and dispense with the melodramatics.

John 8)

Post something useful!
I certainly think the heads up that Bruce gave his fellow ECC/NECOA members almost two and a half years ago is very useful. I don't like to be taken advantage of when spending my hard earned money, and you probably don't either John. So when someone tips me off to someone I should stay away from, someone who may rip me off, I have a tendency to listen.

After reading all of the responses to the original post in this thread, that seemed to be the general consensus of everyone else who contributed to this thread, except Barry of course.

Thanks Erinie.

I was just tring to help fellow El Camino owners.

As far as i am concerned thats the number one reason for this Web site.

childish as it may be.