Honda Owners Club Discounts

[AshimotoK0]

I joined HOC last year to get a dating certificate on my C110 and you occasionally get a magazine but not a patch on the Tansha magazine  but VJMC is a lot more expensive on dating  and they are real sticklers on issuing a dating cert. particularly when it comes to the clarity of VIN frame stampings.
 
Anyway, the magazine came yesterday and has a list of 2024 member discounts. Interesting that RS BikePaints give 10% discount to members ... didn't know that. M&P and Central Wheels give 5%
 
The rear outer cover has a full page ad for David Silver Spares ..... but guess who is not in the discount list.

[Laverda Dave]

The rear outer cover has a full page ad for David Silver Spares ..... but guess who is not in the discount list.
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That's not surprising Ash. I really feel he's missing a trick not offering any kind of discount whatsoever to any club or forum. If he did I would be tempted to buy more from him rather than CMSNL especially if they have the parts and he doesn't (and if he doesn't he gets them from CMSNL anyway). Even free P&P would be a nice gesture over a certain amount.
The best discount I ever got though was going up to his warehouse in 1990/91 a couple of weeks after he relocated there and going through stillage bins of new 400/4 parts and filling up a trolley with complete nos wheels, nos fully painted fuel tank and side panels etc. I bought so many parts that day I filled the trolley. He didn't have the price list to hand, was busy getting the place straight and charged me something like £300 for the lot. I remember the complete front wheel was £25! Those really were the days!
Looking back at the article that appears in Issue 1ofJapanese Classics magazine  (does anyone remember that short lived magazine?) I said the restoration cost £2,600, try doing that today! It was that 'cheap' though thanks to the huge and obviously unofficial discount I received from David Silver himself on that fateful Saturday afternoon visit.

[paul G]

  I have always had my view on David (Dick Turpin) Silver.
People say where would we be without him but that does not excuse his pricing.
Like the last time we discussed it, increasing the prices on stock he already had blaming us leaving EU etc. Won't let me put the proper word beginning with B

[Johnny4428]

Think the problem is market domination?

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

After I have tried elsewhere DS is my last resort these days.

[AshimotoK0]

I first bought from him when he was living above Bob Bunns motorbike shop in London circa 1986 and was working (I think part time) at Mocheck in Clapham. Evidently he has a chemistry degree but must have found  selling NOS Honda parts more interesting/lucrative as TBH I would myself.  Proi=ices paid then :-- 400/4 rear guard £10, complete caliper with pads £10 , stanchions £10 each.
UKPete on here summed up their attitude on discounts a few years ago "Wouldn't give you the steam of his own p*ss"

Where would we be without him though and a nice bloke when you meet him.

A lot of parts NOS that crop up today are often ex-DS. I got some NOS CB175 pipes last year and inside was an 'Access' credit card slip issued by DS in the 90's.

[Bryanj]

I did get a discount of sorts and a proper 500 speedo that he had lurking when the web site said no BUT i had just bought 4 import bikes in one go!