Don's Try to Wear the Wheel Pants!
Marion paid $230 for the wheel pants and had started work on them. I’m not sure how much the pedals are worth, but most of the metal parts are getting pretty hard to come by. (So of course I assume they’re priceless!) At any rate, Brownie sold me the wheel pants for $25 each, and the rudder pedals for $10. Even with shipping at $46 (he even sent me the receipts) I thought the total of $106 was a pretty good deal.
It was actually kinda’ funny, I had the money in my account, and was thinking about when I would head over to the bank to get a money order, and go to the post office to mail it, but before I could do any of that, Brownie sent me an e-mail telling me that he had already sent the packages. He mailed them before I even paid for them! I think that’s kind of unheard of in this day and age, and I think it deserves praise.
I also think that it was a great marketing ploy on his part, even though I don’t think he did it for that reason, since when he shipped everything, it really lit a fire under my ass to get the money in the mail. On second thought, sending products before payment probably wouldn’t work out to well for most customers, but it sure worked on me!
Thanks Brownie! I appreciate the smooth transaction, and the extra pieces to the puzzle I hope to someday call an airplane!
These are the pictures that Brownie sent me before the sale:
 The left wheelpant was almost untouched.  Another view of the left wheel pant  The right side is joined and glassed on the inside. |