The reason I’ll buy my parts from overseas

[dennis da menaceMember]

I remember walking into a bike shop a few years ago and trying to find parts for an older bike. The bloke, sorry, kid, was pretty helpful and pulled up some pics on the microfiche for me. As I was perusing them I noticed a bug sticker on the cash register…..

It said

Retail = 2 x Wholesale

It made me sick to see it. I pointed at the sticker and said to the kid ” is that what I pay” and he said “no, we add an extra 15% for factory orders too”!!

I bit my tongue, got the part numbers I needed and left.

Got home and hit the WWW, as I have ever since

It seems to me that retailers still live in the past. Times have changed, the world is bigger and peeps have more choice.

It’s the bike shops that need to adjust their greedy antiquated ways.

Margins are different these days.

All bike shops import things cheaper these days….

Problem is most don’t pass the savings on to the customer and still cry poor.

Then wonder why punters shop online

Shits me to tears

Sober rant over :laugh:

[Mick DMember]

I for one have shopped at the shop in mention for at least 25 years. I have always been looked after by the team there. Sounds like a mix up to me.

[peteMember]

Every shop you enter will be the same mate, it’s pretty much 100% mark up on most things you buy, I worked in the dive industry and it was like this but we received a price list with everything we sold which meant that we didn’t choose the price.
I’m not saying its the same for every business but it can’t be much different either.
If you have company X, then company X wants its retailers all selling there product at the same price, so you can’t always blame the bike shops.

And sometimes you can. :laugh:

PTW

[Dwayne OMember]

I recently bought a set of tyres from a local dealer that I have only visited once before. Had to order the rear in as he had sold the size I needed a day or two before :S

I was pleasantly surprised a few days later to receive a call that the rear was in store, and because I told him I was fitting them myself, he knocked off $25 off what I had expected to pay `cause the price per item was on the labels He could have charged me full price & I would have been none the wiser !!!

I will now be back there for tyres in future as it worked out heaps cheaper than what I have paid in the past with purchase plus freight etc

My other local store that I have used bought from for years is going to be sold, and if it doesn`t sell will be closed for good sometime this year The owner has a different career now and has kept the shop running with help from his wife & young bloke.
They have been great every time I went there for many years and had great service and prices, always followed up with a smile

I will miss that as it is something you never get from O/S online stores !!!
My belief is that it is really important to support the local stores where possible,,

My 2c worth,, there it`s out :laugh:

[scott bockingMember]

So we have established that a good UHD tube is $45. Fitting quote was $25. That equals $70. If you want to dispute it then remove the wheel, remove the tube and get it checked out by the manager of the retailer that fitted it. Then refit it yourself.
And if it does turn out that it is above board then you have openly accused a site sponsor of ripping you off for a service that you can not buy overseas!

STM

[SteveMember]

Well,i have shoped at all the local shops for 20 years and can not complain.Have been allowed to book shit up and pay later.This had to stop now as my kids have cars and drive there And rape my account.But have allways been looked after.
In my work,i have done work for 2 of the bike shops,1 shop I hardly enter,but did all the reno work on.
My work is shit,but if you call me to you house its guna cost over $100for 10 minuts,if its bad.
Makes there prices look cheap.

[simon burkeMember]

I walk into a pie shop. Buy a bloody good pie. :cheer:
Costs me about 3 bucks.probably cost him one to make.
Good on him,he has a business to run and I run my own business so I have a very good idea on what it costs to run a business.
Pie shop owner goes next door to the camping shop and buys a torch as he’s going camping with the kids on the weekend.
Camping shop employee goes across the road to the chemist and buys those cool sunnies she has been eyeing off for the last few weeks cause finally its payday.
Chemist walks down the street to buy his twins a nerf gun each for their birthday tommorow.
toy shop owner needs some new grips on his bike for this weekend and bloody hell its friday already.
he grabs a pie first thing in the morning from the local pie shop on his way to the pine forrest.
:huh:
I love these rants…almost religion and politics
bol :woohoo:

[Dwayne OMember]

Nice one Boll, Well said

[Brett WilliamsMember]

Not too long ago I ordered some genuine parts for WR450 from overseas (45% less than in Oz). I left out the woodruff key from the order and had to buy it from Yamaha here. US price $1.70. Yamaha Australia price $15. If you have the time to wait, buying o/s is a no brainer!

[Bob DowsettMember]

rockdog wrote:

I’m sorry to hear you’ve had a bad experience, if it was our shop than I’m disappointed and can only think there has been poor communication on our behalf (they supplied a uh without telling u?), wrongly labelled part or human error. Either way I’m more than happy to sort it out for you with a refund or credit.
We ain’t planning on retiring early on tube fitting it must have been a stuff up.
Phone me tomorrow on 02 65836655 Rory Rock and ill fix up the price difference.

We sell the following hd tubes:-
– Kenda tuff tube hd $30
– Bridgestone mh $35
– Bridgestone uh $45
Prices from memory for 18″.
I will double check with my service dept but I thought we where charging $20 to fit.
If you had mentioned you where obt the guys have been told to knock 10% off parts.

Ps. Carton of beer to change a tube, unless you are buying them overseas as well that would be costing you about $35-40 per tube?

well done

there was nothing mentined aboput any specifics , and you didnt have to coff up ……………………….if it was ur shop of course???

i dont shop there and maybe never will but
U get 9.8/10 so far ……..nobodys perfect:)

[Damien BonoraMember]

KING BOLLOCKS wrote:

I walk into a pie shop. Buy a bloody good pie. :cheer:
Costs me about 3 bucks.probably cost him one to make.
Good on him,he has a business to run and I run my own business so I have a very good idea on what it costs to run a business.
Pie shop owner goes next door to the camping shop and buys a torch as he’s going camping with the kids on the weekend.
Camping shop employee goes across the road to the chemist and buys those cool sunnies she has been eyeing off for the last few weeks cause finally its payday.
Chemist walks down the street to buy his twins a nerf gun each for their birthday tommorow.
toy shop owner needs some new grips on his bike for this weekend and bloody hell its friday already.
he grabs a pie first thing in the morning from the local pie shop on his way to the pine forrest.
:huh:
I love these rants…almost religion and politics
bol :woohoo:

Good call Bol, guess thats why u da king!!!
you’re right, spend some cash locally, adds to our economy, eventually comes back around.

Plus you get a pie :laugh: :laugh:

[ianMember]

i have got heaps of stuff O/S and the main reason is the old local bikeshop had you over a barrel for years they were the only place you could get it! but in the age of computers its all changed some have learnt some havent .
I still dont buy my stuff local but where i bought my bike(action motorcycle at Nerang QLD) all i do is ring Col he does it a cheaper prices than local and competitively enough not for me to buy O/S, as for the tyre changing costs thats just a rip off so i learnt to do it myself problem solved just like a lot of things as with most of you i would say if you have kids with bikes you soon start learning to things your self otherwise this becomes ridicuously expensive sport

[Geoff ForshawMember]

Well said Bol

[Harold WithingtonMember]

I think King B has it rite
We have owned our own transport business in the past and I can tell you nothing sucks money up like a truck.
The thing is there is more involved behind the scene in owning a business as the whole sale price the shop owner pays for a lets say tube is only just a small part of the actual cost of the product there’s also shop rent and this varies greatly depending on the area , power, phone,wages, super,workerscomp, theft, freight, public liability and the list goes on before they put on their profit as that’s the bit that keeps business owners in business.
It used to give me the shits when people say ” oh you got your own company you must be rich”.

Now before I get shot down in flames I’m not defending every shop owner out thre because I’m sure there is people out there that just rip off the public.

The thing is and I learnt this a long time ago especially with tyres as I was changing out 62 of the bastards up to 3 times a year, if you want to save money do it your self otherwise pay someone else to do it But remember you are asking someone else to do your dirty work for you regardless of the reason and just cop it in the pocket.

Also To fit a truck tire back then was about 30 to 50 bucks and I recon they aren’t as hard as a bike just shit loads more of them

My2c worth

[murph the surfMember]

Must say I have been loyal to my local bike shop even though he has been Yamaha, now Kwaka.
Have bought my Kato’s locacally too.
If Inskips can’t get a KTM part I have to go into Newcastle
All our apparell and bits come from Skippy
Have shopped with them for over thirty years so I do get good discounts
Did go overseas to purchase certain rear tyres as they have not been possible to get them here anymore
But Inskips are looking into getting my IRC’s again for a good price. :woohoo:
I guess I love our great country and mostly spend my hard earnt money locally
Go Ausies
Cheers
Murph

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