Cogan Valley Machine
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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Welcome to the "under construction" Cogan Valley Machine website.
Use the link at top "3 Our Products" to view list of available items.
Or use the "Picase Photostream" link at right, to view photos.
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Partial Product List:
- Quick Hitch Dozer Blade Adapter
- Quick Hitch Non-power Attachment Adapter
- Quick Hitch Reenforcement Retainer Plate
- Quick Hitch Horn Sleeve/Receiver Socket
- Quick Hitch 4 Bolt Horn Assembly
- 1/2 Round
- Skid Bars
- Kohler Powered 2 Wheeled Tractor Kick Stand
- Model L High Hood Hinge Pin Repair Kit
- Starter Clutch Removal Socket.
Other Cogan Valley Machine Offered Gravely After Market Parts: - Shipper shaft assembly parts
- Engine valve and valve guide sets
- Valve keeper C-clip
- Engine crank shaft parts and bearings
- Mower shafting
- 800/8000 PTO parts
- Rear axel
- Clutch parts
- Dozer brackets and lift rods
- Tool bar parts
- Quick hitch parts.
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A. About Larry Schmohl
Note: Larry Schmohl of Cogan Valley Machine, is the Coganironworker on EBay.
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About Me:
What everyone should know about me:
I am currently 54 years old and have been a machinist for 36 years. I have a small machine shop and manufacture a few after market parts for some old equipment, mostly Gravely, that have been discovered to be scarce or are found to be way too expensive.
Things I sell:
Most of my selling activity centers around Gravely after-market parts and other related items. Among these items are exclusive Cogan Valley Machine Co., made for the Gravely tractor, after market products. The list of product is constantly growing. We are endeavoring to keep up with demand for our quality parts. At times our stock is depleted before the next production run is available.
We do not list all available items at all times on E-bay. Contact us of your needs or for price and availability if not currently listed as an offering. We gladly take suggestions of other needed Gravely items we might produce. When viable, we will consider production.
Languages spoken:
English
Interests
Hobbies
I'm into model railroading and tractor pulling among other things.
B. About Jerry Schmohl
About Me:
There has been a long line of German craftsmen in the Schmohl family. The current "Schmohl Twins" are no different. We certainly don't come up short when it comes to working out some sort of mechanical or similar problem. As for myself, I started out in sales straight out of High School. After the momentum of the machine shop reached a level that Larry needed help, I stepped in. Together, through various market ups and downs, we have taken the business to its current activity.
C. About Cogan Valley Machine Co.
Cogan Valley Machine Co. started out as a small machine job shop in 1977 servicing the local community with production parts and repairs. One of our customers, a local coal and oil boiler manufacturer, we have had for over thirty years, making all of the mechanical parts needed for their products. Now a days, our business has expanded to include Internet sales, namely eBay, serving the world of Gravely owners with quality after market parts among others.
Due to the nature of this "factory direct" selling, parts are many times offered at great savings over normal retail pricing. Also, as discontinued items are discovered, production of those needed parts are offered. Together, we are adding to this endeavor almost on a daily basis.
We only know how to do business one way; with integrity and fairness. We have been consumers for quite a few years and have never forgotten what its like to be on that side of the transaction table. So we consider that experience through every sales transaction we make. Therefore, we consider every customer, as though we, were the customer.
We live and operate our business in Cogan Station, PA; a wide spot in the road, located 6 miles north of Williamsport, PA; the home of Little League Baseball. I say a wide spot in the road because while traveling though, if you blink twice, you'll likely miss it.
D. Our eBay Business
As with our Cogan Valley Machine business, we extend this thinking to our eBay business as well. The Coganironworker (our eBay name) has had over eight-hundred transactions through eBay auctions with a 100% positive feedback rating thus far. The experiences of those transaction have covered the full spectrum. We have had many very enjoyable transactions and we have had a few that have not gone so well. We understand what is required to do successful eBay.
Shipping information:
Communication is key; we try to keep in touch through the entire transaction process to keep you informed of its progress. When shipping an item, whenever possible, a tracking number will be included, and supplied to you, so you may track the shipment as well.
We will try to follow up after the sale and delivery, to make sure you are satisfied with your purchase. Included with the invoice for the sale, combined with the various interim emails, you will have all the contact information needed to communicate with us however you choose (phone, e-mail, or snail-mail).
If the item for sale is for local pickup only, unlike some other eBayer's auction listings, the location of the item will be noted right there in the auction listing, so you may easily evaluate your travel distance before you bid. You will not need to guess where in the country it might be.
Our Packaging Policy:
The items for shipment are packaged as well as possible. We do this as we would like our item packaged that we receive. We understand that we cannot be responsible for shipper's damage after the package leaves our hands, but we do have a responsibility to package to the best of our ability to avoid unnecessary damage.
Sad to say; but some eBayers do not consider this packaging part of the sale as important (they figure you're on your own, when it comes to shipper's damage, regardless of how poorly your item was packaged).
Return Policy:
Buyer must notify seller of problem first. Product must be in good marketable condition and must be packaged as well as the original shipment. Buyer must pay for return shipping. Seller may return shipping fees at sellers consideration.
About Feedback:
We consider feedback an important part of the eBay process. We will leave fair and appropriate feedback, accurately reflecting how the transaction has gone, after the sales transaction has concluded and same has been received from you, our valued customer.
Our customers are important to us, therefore, customer service is job one. You will find that all these issues bare out as you read the various posted feedback that this Coganironworker has received.
E. Our Future Business
Now its time to take the business to the next level with website exposure. Our goal here is to develop a means for our non eBay customers to gain access to our after market parts. Additionally, this website will help find new customers for the other half of our machine shop business.
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Note: Larry Schmohl of Cogan Valley Machine, is the Coganironworker on Ebay.
Selling started on Ebay as the Coganironworker in 2004.This was prompted by a need in the Gravely tractor community for replacement parts that were beginning to increase in price more than thought to be reasonable. The goal of the Coganironworker was to supply those needed items at factory direct pricing and therefore, saving the customer $$ over the dealer MSRP. Thus, the beginning of a sideline business for Cogan Valley Machine. Over the years that followed saw a growth in discontinued parts along with increasingly priced parts. What started out as a sideline has grown to a substantial part of Cogan Valley Machine's business. Ebay has proven to be an excellent avenue to get these needed parts out to the Gravely community.
Explore the links below to learn more about the Coganironworker and the items offered on Ebay for sale.
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Cogan Valley Machine
134 Sawmill Rd.
Cogan Station, PA. 17728
Phone: 570-998-9484
Email: ironworker@chilitech.net
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PayPal Shopping Cart & Checkout
We have used PayPal for years with our eBay sales. We like it. Many people use it and are familiar with it. It seemed like a good choice for our website sales. The checkout is easy. You can view your shopping cart at any time from any page using the link on the right and then return for more shopping. You can change quantities before you go to checkout. After you have added all the item you want to the shopping cart, you may notice an amount at the bottom of your item list called shipping and handling. Some items you may have chosen, that do not combine well for packaging, may have a specified shipping cost applied. Those amounts are added together there. Once you insert your zip code, the total shipping cost for all your items are displayed in its place. Once you move on to checkout, if you chose any item that was out of stock, it will be noted at that time. From there, you can go back and change your order or choose either to use your PayPal account or a credit card to complete your purchase.
Shipping Carriers & Cost:
The shopping cart shipping calculator has not been very flexible for us to set up. It only allowed for one shipping service and does not tie in to USPS shipping rates, like the eBay shipping calculator does. It uses only a 5 tier shipping cost table. Since Priority mail works best to ship most of our products most of the time for cost effectiveness, we developed the required 5 tier cost structure based on weight, using the Priority mail for shipping, but could not accurately include any consideration to distance, like USPS does. Also, the weights were rounded to pounds with no ounces considered. So, the smallest parts shipped, would still be calculated at a pound each. If your order were to contain mostly small parts, the shipping cost calculation could be grossly overstated. As you might realize, this in no way, could be very accurate as compared to USPS actual rates,
Small single part orders of less than 13oz., we generally ship for less with USPS 1st Class. We can use USPS flat rate boxes to ship what may amount to quite a number of items if the order combinations works out. But some of our items are much larger and not able to combine ship very well. In some of those cases, we were able to assign specific shipping cost, but in other cases, we were not. You might start to see where all this is going.
Now, maybe understanding why other web companies do it, we could let all this go and be like some of those other companies you may have dealt with on the web and complained about their shipping cost later. I realize, I'm probably making this web sales more complicated than it need be, but I/we want to give you the best shipping cost possible to receive your order without requiring us to raise the parts price, and still be fair to ourselves.
In as much as we strive to keep shipping cost down whenever possible to save you $$$, some compensations will be needed. As we hate to pay anymore than we have too for shipping cost, we want to extend the same consideration to you. If we had complete control over the shipping cost choices, we would use a combination of services, as we do with our eBay sales; including 1st class mail, flat rate Priority, and regular Priority to gain the greatest cost effectiveness to package your particular order. As with the eBay item shipping, we will generally add $1.50 to $6.00 to our shipping cost charge to cover packaging time, packing material plus other variables such as International mailing. Some of these added cost are specifically mentioned in the item description for special packaging.
Unlike eBay, that allowed for a corrected invoice to be sent before payment, to lower shipping cost, website sales is pretty well automatic and immediate. For our eBay sales, if an item is paid for immediately, our general business practice has been to reimburse shipping cost overpayment back through PayPal when possible. For website sales, the structure of PayPal easily allows for this same procedure, either if you checkout using your Pay Pal account or your credit card.
If you use a credit card, our side of the transaction sees a two step process. The money paid to us is "held" till we "capture" it. We commonly have three days to "capture" our money. We can choose to "capture" less than the full amount. Money we do not "capture" is released back to you. This would be one way to "refund you" shipping cost overpayment. The other would be as we do for our eBay customers using PayPal.
During checkout, PayPal provides an area for customer notes to the seller. If you would like for us to ship your order the "best way" rather than only just Priority Mail, we will do what we can to save you money and refund the difference back to you.
Shipping Information:
Communication is key; we try to keep in touch through the entire transaction process to keep you informed of its progress. When shipping an item, whenever possible, a tracking number will be included, and supplied to you, so you may track the shipment as well. This will generally be via PayPal through their order detail page.
We will try to follow up after the sale and delivery, to make sure you are satisfied with your purchase. Included with the invoice for the sale, combined with the various interim emails, you will have all the contact information needed to communicate with us however you choose (phone, e-mail, or snail-mail). :-)
Our Packaging Policy:
The items for shipment are packaged as well as possible. We do this as we would like our item packaged that we receive. We understand that we cannot be responsible for shipper's damage after the package departs our mail room, but we do have a responsibility to package to the best of our ability to avoid unnecessary damage.
Our 14 Day Return Policy:
Buyer (you) must notify seller (us) of problem first to evaluate the best course of action to resolve issue. If a return is called for, product must be returned in same good marketable condition as was sold. Product must be packaged as well as the original shipment. Buyer must pay for return shipping cost. Any return must be within 14 days of receipt of goods, postage prepaid. In most instances, since the sale would most likely have been through the PayPal shopping cart checkout, any refund will only be of the product sale price, issued as a credit back to you through PayPal or as a company check mailed to you. Seller may return shipping fees under limited circumstances, at sellers consideration, subject to product inspection.
30 Day Warranty:
We stand behind our manufactured products. If within 30 days of purchase, a product, manufactured by Cogan Valley Machine (us), is found to be defective of material or workmanship, subject to inspection, we will replace that item, at no charge to you, upon pre-authorized return of the defective product postage prepaid. If only a part of an assembly is defective, only that part will be replaced. The entire assembly should not be returned. If our labor is involved to dis-assemble or install a defective part of a non defective assembly, prevailing labor rates will be charged. Any returns must be pre-approved. Under limited circumstances, the return of a defective item may not be required.
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