General Industrial supply, Inc.

[Ron McNeil]

This might have been mentioned and I missed it but I wanted to let the good people of Sawmill Creek know that General Industrial supply now has a place on their web site that says "To view our price list click here" and it seems to have a complete list of prices of their prooduct showing what it cost new and what the scratch and dent price is. I thought you would want to know.:D

[Ron Meadows]

Yup. sure does....and its only 320 pages long with no search feature. Still sucks!! What were they thinking??

[Ken Garlock]

I have to agree! What the heck was wrong with the old site, at least it worked. I guess this is what you get when you let your kid build the website.:(

Say Ken Salisbury, what is happening over at General Industrial. It looks like you need to get your flame thrower out and cleaned up.:)

[Gary]

I am one who has posted complaints about GSI's website in the past, mostly because I do LIKE the company and wish they would get it together.

To be fair, their price list does have a search feature; it's at the bottom of each of the 320 pages of the price database. BUT, it is still a very clumsy way to list prices. Why can't the products be linked to the database? (I don' know nuthin about building a website.)

As an observer, it looks to me like they've hired someone who's never seen a wheel to invent one.


:confused: gary

[Ken Salisbury]

Yup. sure does....and its only 320 pages long with no search feature. Still sucks!! What were they thinking??

Say Ken Salisbury, what is happening over at General Industrial. It looks like you need to get your flame thrower out and cleaned up.

I visited the GIS web site this morning and found no difficulties looking up a product and determining both the new and scratch and dent price. I don't see what the problem is. The price data base on the web site is listed by GIS's 'stock numbers' (which there 1,000's). I simply went to the page describing a product, noted the stock #, went to the price data base page and entered that stock # in the "search" box at the bottom of the page and up came the information of price for both new and for scratch and dent for that item.

It took me less than 2 minutes to look up the product description, specs and prices of a piece of equipment I would really like to have (JWL 1642).

I didn't navigate the entire site so I don't know if there are other problems with it or not. But as far as product price look-up I don't see a problem.

In all fairness to GIS what they have now in the way of a web site is an order of magnitude better than just a few weeks ago. I am not a computer genius but I do have some knowledge of the work involved in building web sites. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither is a complicated web site with as much information to be displayed as the one being developed by GIS.

The owner of GIS pubished the web site initially (and probably prematurely) without the price information and all of the specification data as a result of posts on this forum complaining about their old site being down. I am sure they will continue to improve the site as time goes on. <p align="center">
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[Bartee Lamar]

The problem is 3 out of 4 web surfers who are wood workers did NOT figure that out.

It you look the webmaster seems to have the same last name as the owners, so I am betting this the son of one of the owners and is learning on the job.

With a little more work he will learn how to do a look up in ASP and put the price on the same page.

It is better and he has learned to list from a database.

Looks like this is all being done with dreamweaver. He will get it eventually.

As always, you get what you pay for.

[Ken Salisbury]

Originally posted by Bartee Lamar

It you look the webmaster seems to have the same last name as the owners, so I am betting this the son of one of the owners and is learning on the job.



I believe the Webmaster a young nephew of Rick Warren (owner)