Buying bike parts from overseas, shipping time estimates and methods ?

Jabubu said:
Yes my bike parts arrived!

Magic Mary Super Trail Soft x 2
Hans Dampf Super Gravity Soft x 2

SKS Airchecker
Stans DART refill
e*thirteen quick fill tubeless valves

Other bits..
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Are you going too try you get your VAT back at the airport? I've seen the counter but never tried.
 
ozzybmx said:
Could have posted that. I thought you were filling yer bags with geoblock paraphernalia.
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If I add the delivery costs then I'm spending another €45. And to be honest, I actually wanted the Continentala from R2 which also had much better geoblocked pricing like chains etc. So instead I bought an extra Magic Mary :)

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Make sure to take them on as Carry-on so the -38degree temperatures in the cargo hold doesn't degrade your fresh treads and render them useless.
 
Mattyp said:
Make sure to take them on as Carry-on so the -38degree temperatures in the cargo hold doesn't degrade your fresh treads and render them useless.
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Don't stress, they're Schwalbes - it won't matter.
 
ozzybmx said:
The strange thing is all the other sellers except Bike24 have raised their shipping to €40, Hibike still on €22.
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Just putting an order together, a couple of price changes on German sites. Sad to see my regular BC go up but happy as I have been ordering quite a bit of stuff from R2 in the past year.

R2 has stock of what I want and the 20 euro difference in shipping has swung the order to them. Getting greedy BC :mad:

Update on postage prices.

BikeComponents - €49.99 - Up 10 euro.
Bike24 - €39.99 - UP 20 euros from €19.99 mid 2023, which was my last order.
HiBike - €22.90 - Same but have asked for extra from some buyers here in recent years. Stock isn't great
R2 Bike - €29.50 - Down from 40 euros flat for under 600 euro order.
Bike-Discount - €41 UP but its been a while, last paid equivalent of €20 as they price in $au.
 
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ozzybmx said:
Just putting an order together, a couple of price changes on German sites. Sad to see my regular BC go up but happy as I have been ordering quite a bit of stuff from R2 in the past year.

R2 has stock of what I want and the 20 euro difference in shipping has swung the order to them. Getting greedy BC :mad:

Update on postage prices.

BikeComponents - €49.99 - Up 10 euro.
Bike24 - €39.99 - UP 20 euros from €19.99 mid 2023, which was my last order.
HiBike - €22.90 - Same but have asked for extra from some buyers here in recent years. Stock isn't great
R2 Bike - €29.50 - Down from 40 euros flat for under 600 euro order.
Bike-Discount - €41 UP but its been a while, last paid equivalent of €20 as they price in $au.
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They also have the best price on Conti tyres :)
 
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