If it involves fuel, cooling, ignition, or life safety, buy from proven established online retailers if you chose to purchase online.
If you deal with EBay or Amazon, you have to do a substantial research and possibly ask a lot of questions to determine if the seller is worth buying from or not.
Example:
Here is an image from a carb rebuild kit for Evinrude/Johnson sold on Amazon:
It's a garbage aftermarket kit in Amazon's recommendation list when doing a search. It would fail most of the time and cost you money and time and possibly engine damage if it cut off fuel flow since it is a 2 stroke motor.
Most people do not have the knowledge or experience built up to determine if a seller is selling genuine marine quality parts or garbage.
I know for a fact when I buy a certain part# from the online retailer I buy from, it is the genuine part and not a piece of junk that is worthless (whether counterfeit of OEM or just worthless).
iBoats carries a fair number of parts competitively priced which helps keep this forum running, their line of what they carry might not be as comprehensive as what you need.
If you would like some recommendations, send me a PM as promoting sellers other than iBoats of products iBoats sells on forum posts is against forum rules.
