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

Jabubu said:
My bike would be wearing Contis if they were in stock at the time!
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Stock is still shit, very hard to get in the DH casings, was going to run a Kryptotal on the rear but nobody has them in Soft DH, the Supersoft is too soft for a rear.
 
R2 bike ordered on the morning of the 22nd, arrived here in 6 days :)

Expecting around another 5-6 to get here.


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ozzybmx said:
FMD ! Overnight from Melb to my door :oops:

Making it 1 week from order, to delivered to my door... though no one was here, I'll grab it after 4pm.

My fastest ever up until now was 11-12 days.


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That's fast af.

I was also wowed recently by a package from Taiwan to Melb which took only 5 days via regular mail. I cannot even get something from QLD that quick, via Auspost non-express.
 
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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Also Starbike.com have a sliding scale:

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So yeah, I won't be ordering from Bikeinn/Tradeinn again....

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Nothing particularly important, just some hard to source grips. Ordered on 27th of March, order seemed to just sit there until the 9th, then finally got a bit excited on the 17th but was jumping the gun. It may have been one of the biggest delays I've seen in customs, but also noting there's the different terms "destination country" and "country of destination". Thankfully a low time and dollar cost experiment for me.
 
madstace said:
So yeah, I won't be ordering from Bikeinn/Tradeinn again....

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Nothing particularly important, just some hard to source grips. Ordered on 27th of March, order seemed to just sit there until the 9th, then finally got a bit excited on the 17th but was jumping the gun. It may have been one of the biggest delays I've seen in customs, but also noting there's the different terms "destination country" and "country of destination". Thankfully a low time and dollar cost experiment for me.
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I've bought a couple of times and found their base shipping cost quite reasonable since it's coming from the other side of the globe. They seem to ship from various locations all over the world though. First it was USA and another time from Europe. Both times arrived in about 3 weeks.

The only annoying thing was how they calculate shipping cost. E.g. If I added 1x hub seal to the order it was fine, but add a second one (probably another 20grams) and the shipping went up by $15 or something.

Don't worry your item will arrive in good time.
 
nzhumpy said:
Hmmm....I have a bunch of snow gear sitting in a basket ready to pull the trigger, might have a rethink.
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I had to can my snowinn order a couple of months back because it wasn't going to make it in time for departure.

Problem was that items showing as in stock turned out to be at distributors who then took so long I never got to test the shipping speed.

If you'd not going for another couple of months you're probably fine.
 
Tubbsy said:
I had to can my snowinn order a couple of months back because it wasn't going to make it in time for departure.

Problem was that items showing as in stock turned out to be at distributors who then took so long I never got to test the shipping speed.

If you'd not going for another couple of months you're probably fine.
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Should be right unless something goes drastically wrong, booked for January.
 
Ah you'll be fine. I ordered in Jan for an end of Feb departure.

To be fair they cancelled without complaint and refund was very quick.
 
Yeah - current BikeInn order - ordered on the 11th, finally shipped on the 22nd - I'll start getting concerned in another week or two. From my past order from them tracking updates are more of a 1) it's in the system, 2) No updates 3) it's at your door
 
Just got an order from R2 bike. ordered 15th May, ready to pick up from post office today 27th of May.
Inclusive of time spent in the Frankfurt ReTARDIS. o_O
That seems quite reasonable to me.
I had other orders, from bike 24, hibike etc sit in the Frankfurt ReTARDIS for around 30 days, but I guess it was during the worst of Covid, and the international freight system was pharked not really working properly.
 
Ordered from Bike24 23rd May, didn't get shipped until the 29th!
Its currently sitting and waiting, lets see if I get f#*©k3d by the big Frankfurter.
 
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