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2024

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VIRTUAL SPARE PARTS

WHAT DO ONLINE SHOPS OFFER TO AUTOMOBILES?

TEXT / ANATOLIY SUKHOV

Nowadays, finding the right part is not a problem, but shopping still takes up valuable time. Many would prefer, like the fabulous Emelya, to use the "pike command". Now it is possible thanks to the Internet. Virtual stores proved to be profitable: there is no retail space - no rent. Enough rooms with a computer connected to the Internet, a small warehouse outside the city and a staff of drivers with cars to deliver goods to customers. For most Russians, these stores are still a mystery. What are the quality of the goods and prices? Is it possible to trust “virtual sellers” if on an ordinary counter all the time you come across a marriage or a fake? To answer these questions, we visited several sites and made test purchases.

To our surprise, there were not so many stores on-line (that is, with the possibility of direct order) on the vast Internet - a dozen or two. The rest take orders by e-mail or regular mail, phone or fax, which negates all their virtuality. Although Internet pleasure is not free, a call, for example, in Tolyatti can be even more expensive. It’s better not to think about regular mail at all - until the letter arrives, until they read it, clarify the order, send it … Faster to cut the part out of the blank yourself. There are very few stores where you can pay for your purchase via the Internet. However, for us this is still irrelevant - we need a credit card, and it’s more pleasant to pay according to the principle “chairs in the morning, money in the evening”: you must first look at the chairs. Well, in most cases, you can pay in cash - upon receipt of the order. But not always an online store means home delivery. Many send goods by mail by COD or after prepayment. And these are unnecessary instances - and problems: they pulled out a postal card from the mailbox, lost the order, sent the wrong item, etc. Therefore, it is better to choose a store with delivery.

The owners of foreign cars became one of the first buyers of virtual spare parts - in ordinary stores, these parts are also custom-made. Why go to the store twice: once to order, another to receive? Moreover, you still have to choose in absentia, according to the catalog. Prices are comparable to ordinary stores, but the spread is less.

Another thing is domestic cars. Few sell parts for them. The most visited: “Virage” (virazh.ru), “Avtokomis” (www.acom.ru), “Exist” (www.exist.ru). In the first two, it's easy to find the right part. The easiest way to place an order is in Avtokomis - just indicate the name of the organization (name) and contact phone number. In "existential" the search system for spare parts is frankly inconvenient. To find out by the VIN (identification number) of the car whether there is any necessary part, you will have to go through the registration procedure and wait for the email with the password. And spare parts are imported, with the corresponding price. A spoon of honey - illustrations and a table of applicability for some details and the ability to look through catalogs of leading world manufacturers.

But domestic spare parts in online stores are often cheaper. So in “Virage” and “Avtokomis” prices for most parts are comparable to prices in the Kemp chain of stores, and for “tin” - even lower (about 10%). A little cheaper and large units - engines, gearboxes.

For test purchases, we decided not to use either telephone, fax, or mail: the Internet is so Internet! At the same time order home delivery (that is, to the publisher). On-line stores operate very promptly: the next day they called from Avtokomis, where we ordered filters, nozzles and pads for the top ten, and wrote from Exist and Virage (spare parts for foreign cars and Lada) accordingly) to confirm the order and specify the time and place of delivery. But a few emails to stores where there is no direct order mode, remained unanswered.

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