Ackerman Sales is a business that is focused on customer service.  We believe that the customer is the most important part of business.  Shipping is always done with the utmost of care and rapidly.  If you are anything like me, when you buy something you want it quickly not a week from now.

We buy and sell all types of items from electronics to tractors.  The largest part of the business is focused on Industrial business products and parts.  Items like circuit breakers, fuses, PLC's and  industrial computer displays.  My background also has me involved in selling farm related items such as tractors, hay balers and related parts for farm equipment.  

Please feel free to email me and ask me questions at any time.  They are gladly answered and a lot of the time I learn a great deal from the people who email.  I've been given a lot of help by the great ebayers out there on understanding some of the parts that I don't have all of the information on.     

A little about my background and who you are dealing with!

I grew up suth of Wooster, Ohio close to Fredericksburg.  This is very a very beautiful area and is the northern most tip of Amish Country in Ohio.  Holmes County, Ohio is just a mile away and has the world's largest concentration of Amish.  Believe it or not, Holmes County beats out Shippsheewanna, Indiana and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 

I grew up working on the neighboring fruit farms and eventually went into the Army after graduating high school.  I spent 3 years stationed at Fort Bragg, NC and was one of the first soldiers to hit the ground during the Gulf War.  (Think of the soldiers that are over there right now.  Whether you believe in the war or not, Support the Soldiers!  They are doing a great job and protecting our liberites every day of the year so we don't have to!)  I then came back home and started college and joined the Ohio Army National Guard which I spent 6 years in. 

I graduated from the University of Akron in 1997 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and worked for a company in Michigan called Solvay Automotive which later became Inergy.  I've worked as a design, process, quality, and testing engineer.  Along with the engineering department I spent the last two years of my employment as the Maintenace Supervisor for the plant.  I was responsible for the maintenance department that had to keep the plant running on a shoe string budget 24 hours a day, every day of the year.  That's were I learned how expensive it was to keep an industrial plant running and how I came up with this venture.

Solvay Automotive was a great place, very demanding but I loved it.  The true love of my life, my son was not getting all of the attention he deserved.  I'm a single father and a six year old needs his dad around.  I made the decision last year to leave the factory life and go into business for myself.  This allows me the time I need to spend with my son and make sure that I raise a respectable man.  After moving back close to where I grew up, this adventure began.  I now can adjust my time to fit my son's life and work around his schedule instead of having my schedule dictated to me.  I think I work less than I use to but it's really hard to tell.  If you ever send me an email and I reply at 3 am in the morning, that is very normal for me.  I get up early and go to work when my son is asleep and then when he wakes up I'm there to cook breakfast and watch cartoons.  When he goes off to school I'm back at work and then ready to hang out with him when he's home.  That's the best part of having your own business, be flexible and spending time on what really matters in life.  (It took me a long time to learn that)

Bottom line is that I have a strong mechanical background that comes from farm life and I add to that with my background and education in the engineering field.  I believe that your customers are the most important thing and I will do what it takes to make them happy.  I truly believe that by treating my customers right I can make this a lifelong enjoyable venture.

Please click on a few of the links provided.  Holmes County is a great place, it has become a little touristy over the years but it is beautiful.