Hey Norm you havn't tookup the hobby of watching paint dry have you?
Yes TV is borrrrrrring.
I recon I haven't got to the boring part. Just too busy having to fight with the newer stuff and their lack of parts availability when they only a few years. Or when the OEM get ridiculous on price pricing thinking they are the only source of the parts. This is like idler pulleys I needed today. John Deere has gone from $40 to $80 for the same pulley. But they will be mad at me as I found them for $31 each; just got the bushing out so they have the right stand off. Their comment to me was the customer shouldn't be complaining since their mower was 5K but if the mower is constantly breaking down it does get expensive fast to the repairs done.
As for the add tariffs I am getting from all side right now too. Our Head Nut thinks it is great to impose tariffs on everything that I need to makes these repairs. And he is considering even more tarriffs. Nearly everything that I need is inbound from China as Briggs and Husqvarna are all sourcing parts from there. I glad I was able to extra of my most used parts before the tariffs kicked in.
This Trade war is not going to end well for anyone.
As for GST, Our sale tax is basically the same thing here which is currently 9.5% but this does get collected from the customer. I am tax exempt for the business on parts purchases. It just when I got to buy something for myself that tax hits me. Of course is tax on my profit at the year end that I must pay which is around 20% so there is no real incentive to make a huge profit. If I did just have to give the government more.
What is ticking me off is all the junk my vendors are trying to pass off as OEM spec'd parts. I spend up to half day sometimes trying to get things straighten out. One vendor has lost all v-belt business as they keep sending belts that were up to 2 inches short. I just threw out nearly 1000 USD worth of belts the end of last month because of this. At least I get to wrote them off my taxes as defective items.
