[Tagging] Proposed tag shop=wholesale

[John Willis]

That's the argument on why I can't put brake pads on my car in Japan. 

I can't buy anything but air filters, batteries, & motor oil in Japan - so "car parts stores" are either jammed full of accessories or you are buying through a trade/wholesale supplier who knows you are a certified mechanic shop. 

Such a pain.

So depending on the country, access to things common in other countries might have access restrictions. (Access=trade? Access=membership?)

Javbw 

> On May 10, 2015, at 3:32 AM, ael <law_ence.dev at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 11:49:31AM +1000, Warin wrote:
>>> On 9/05/2015 11:10 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Matthijs Melissen
>>> <info at matthijsmelissen.nl <mailto:info at matthijsmelissen.nl>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>   Note that we also have shop=trade. It would be good to make the
>>>   difference between both tags clear (of deprecate shop=trade, which I
>>>   wouldn't oppose).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> "trade" is an attribute.
>>> 
>>> Any type of shop (plumbing, electrical, lumber, restaurant supplies) could
>>> be trade focused.
>>> Such shops do not cater to walk in consumer traffic, and may be hostile to
>>> customers
>>> who come in without trade knowledge.
>> 
>> Wholesale implies a large quantity of goods, they sell in quantity (the
>> quantity may be over some time, say a year).
>> 
>> A 'Trade' shop implies specialist goods and specialist knowledge, not things
>> that are present in supermarkets.
>> An Electronics trade shop will know what a 12 puff capacitor is and have
>> several types available, high Q please.
>> A Plumbers trade shop will have several types of stop cocks available...
>> etc.
>> 
>> A trade shop may accept walk in customers .. but give them retail prices
>> where as a trade person would get trade price.
>> Some trades are protected by law and a trade shop may refuse sales based on
>> that .. usually safety related.
> 
> Yes. That was the sort of thing I meant when I invented shop=trade...
> 
> ael
> 
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