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Psimpson7 · Jul 14, 2015

looking at my last few orders, its taken between 1 and 3 days to be delivered from the 'departed Singapore hub' entry in the tracking. I would expect you would get it this week Binner. (obviously the correct departed entry not the spurious one!)

Ezkaton · Jul 14, 2015

Aaaaand this is why I pay that smidge extra for DHL over regular tracked.

Knuckles · Jul 14, 2015

Ezkaton said:
It's annoying enough that most of the things I want seem to be always out of stock when I want to purchase...

Looked at bike24? Their site is actually useable and seem to have more stock than bikediscount.de. Am waiting on a delivery atm so not sure on freight time, but seems comprible to zee other germanz by tracking.

Knuckles · Jul 14, 2015

Ezkaton said:
Aaaaand this is why I pay that smidge extra for DHL over regular tracked.

Pffffft, it's all a lottery once it leaves the country of origin. And comes down to a coin toss once the local numpties take charge.

pink poodle · Jul 14, 2015

pink poodle said:
I find wife very underwhelming. I wish to use them more because of the domestic returns facility. But...they have such a limited sporadic range.

It will be a long time before Jenson become an affordable option again sadly.

Ivan said:
Yes, yes she is.

That was a poetic bit of typo...I meant wiggle. Your wife is anything but underwhelming.

Ezkaton · Jul 14, 2015

Knuckles said:
Looked at bike24? Their site is actually useable and seem to have more stock than bikediscount.de. Am waiting on a delivery atm so not sure on freight time, but seems comprible to zee other germanz by tracking.

I've never been on there, I'll take a look now as I'll be wanting to place an order for some goodies after work tomorrow.

Knuckles said:
Pffffft, it's all a lottery once it leaves the country of origin. And comes down to a coin toss once the local numpties take charge.

I've never had DHL take longer than 4 days.
In some cases it has taken only 3.

Flow-Rider · Jul 14, 2015

Knuckles said:
Looked at bike24? Their site is actually useable and seem to have more stock than bikediscount.de. Am waiting on a delivery atm so not sure on freight time, but seems comprible to zee other germanz by tracking.

Zee problem is zee conversion rate with the Euro, our dollar is worth almost half.

Ezkaton · Jul 14, 2015

Flow-Rider said:
Zee problem is zee conversion rate with the Euro, our dollar is worth almost half.

And it's still cheaper than CRC for just about every item I looked at...

Overall, if they don't jib ya on shipping costs it might save me a couple hundred bucks.

Knuckles · Jul 15, 2015

Ezkaton said:
And it's still cheaper than CRC for just about every item I looked at...

Overall, if they don't jib ya on shipping costs it might save me a couple hundred bucks.

Zaktly, £ sterling is a lot worse than the €.

Ackland · Jul 15, 2015

Bike24 have amazing prices on ultra high end gear and lots of rare stuff.

Their shipping is fairly expensive and slow.

As for whining about CRC delivery times...

Get over it. It depends on the mail supplier, not CRC.

Option B... pay more and get it off the shelf at your LBS

But wait...your LBS probably doesn't have stock because they're used to everyone ordering online

Flow-Rider · Jul 15, 2015

Ezkaton said:
And it's still cheaper than CRC for just about every item I looked at...

Overall, if they don't jib ya on shipping costs it might save me a couple hundred bucks.

Knuckles said:
Zaktly, £ sterling is a lot worse than the €.

Not the things I looked at (RockShox Reverb Stealth) and then depending on what you use, you get slumped with conversion fees. Some things are cheaper some are a lot more.

binner · Jul 17, 2015

Finally

Crc arrived today......that was ridiculous

loc81 · Jul 18, 2015

Complete bike purchase

Hey y'all,
Has anyone got any experiences they can share regarding complete bikes on CRC and any further fees/taxes to expect coming into the country?
Let's say the bikes price on the site is $4000 and they want $200 shipping after that. Does that figure include any other taxes that might come along because it is over $1000 or should I be expecting more costs at customs etc?
Cheers.

Minlak · Jul 18, 2015

loc81 said:
Hey y'all,
Has anyone got any experiences they can share regarding complete bikes on CRC and any further fees/taxes to expect coming into the country?
Let's say the bikes price on the site is $4000 and they want $200 shipping after that. Does that figure include any other taxes that might come along because it is over $1000 or should I be expecting more costs at customs etc?
Cheers.

More costs all bikes are priced NOT taking into account local taxes. Unless you can get them to split send the bike in 4 smaller packages worth less than $1000 each you will have top pay tax here on top.

schred · Jul 18, 2015

From memory the gst on imports also applies to larger items broken down into small separate parcels less than 1000 each.

loc81 · Jul 18, 2015

Minlak said:
More costs all bikes are priced NOT taking into account local taxes. Unless you can get them to split send the bike in 4 smaller packages worth less than $1000 each you will have top pay tax here on top.

Thanks- I thought as much!
I'm looking at all sorts of bikes/brands/options right now. I'm not in a great rush so I'll see what info I can find out on these taxes and crunch numbers. There's some nice bikes around that Australia has either no stock or no supplier and these avenues have to be explored.

Boom King · Jul 18, 2015

loc81 said:
Thanks- I thought as much!
I'm looking at all sorts of bikes/brands/options right now. I'm not in a great rush so I'll see what info I can find out on these taxes and crunch numbers. There's some nice bikes around that Australia has either no stock or no supplier and these avenues have to be explored.

YT pricing includes all local taxes.

pharmaboy · Jul 18, 2015

schred said:
From memory the gst on imports also applies to larger items broken down into small separate parcels less than 1000 each.

Yeah, but it's like speeding - you aren't speeding till you get caught

r.ayres1 · Jul 18, 2015

Ezkaton said:
Anyone notice that, along with CRC's new (unnecessary) site update... prices of a number of things have skyrocketed along with it?

Suddenly CRC became a little less appealing...

Yes - definitely gone up, I just pretend its so they can pay Sam Hill :noidea: .. I still buy stuff from them - but nowhere near as much as I used too. I don't give a rats where I buy from now - Pushys - T7 - CRC - Merlin .. Surf the net as we all do.. best price wins.. I work too fucken hard for the money I earn ( I have a shovel and an electric eel on the back of my work ute :violin: .. Cheers

Ackland · Jul 18, 2015

loc81 said:
Hey y'all,
Has anyone got any experiences they can share regarding complete bikes on CRC and any further fees/taxes to expect coming into the country?
Let's say the bikes price on the site is $4000 and they want $200 shipping after that. Does that figure include any other taxes that might come along because it is over $1000 or should I be expecting more costs at customs etc?
Cheers.

I was charged 12% of the listed insured value on an engagement ring at customs.

Mates have had bikes shipped before and had the retailler put WARRANTY REPLACEMENT on the manifesto but someone like CRC is unlikely to do that

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