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C3PO

Ordered some consumables for both Road and Mountain Bike from Bikecomponents.de. Total price including postage was €209. The same items from CRC would have been €284 despite the fact that some of them are included in their current "Sale"! That's more than 25% cheaper!

petethedrummer

C3PO wrote: »

Ordered some consumables for both Road and Mountain Bike from Bikecomponents.de. Total price including postage was €209. The same items from CRC would have been €284 despite the fact that some of them are included in their current "Sale"! That's more than 25% cheaper!

The sooner the Germans take over, the better.

patrick151

Yeah, got myself a pair of Fulcrum racing zeros for €625 a few weeks back and well..

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=78568

Jawgap

I'm waiting on some stuff from www.bike-discount.de - better range than wiggle and CRC and about 25% cheaper, even allowing for the delivery costs.

The only 'complaint' I have relates to their 'track and trace' with DHL - I can see exactly where the stuff is and I feel like ringing the depot in question and telling them to get a move on!

Interestingly, within 24 hours the items had been picked, packed and despatched via DHL to An Post - since then they've spent 3 days meandering through An Post's system.

In other words in 24 hours ze Germans got the parcel 1300km to Dublin, it's taken An Post 3 days to get it the last 10km to me and I still haven't got it!! Given the weekend is upon us I reckon it'll be next week at this rate, which means by the time I get it, it'll have moved, average 2 km per day through Ireland to get to me.

kuro_man

petethedrummer wrote: »

The sooner the Germans take over, the better.

The germans are (only?) beneficiaries of the EURO - it gives us a stronger currency then we should have to buy within eurozone. The EUR was ~0.75 to the punt but ~0.79 to sterling, meaning the IR£1 > £1stg.
If we went back to the punt, it would be worth much less. This is why, as net beneficiaries, the germans should be doing more on eurozone debt.

petethedrummer

kuro_man wrote: »

The germans are (only?) beneficiaries of the EURO - it gives us a stronger currency then we should have to buy within eurozone. The EUR was ~0.75 to the punt but ~0.79 to sterling, meaning the IR£1 > £1stg.
If we went back to the punt, it would be worth much less. This is why, as net beneficiaries, the germans should be doing more on eurozone debt.

You can drink on the street in Germany.

ryan0380

patrick151 wrote: »

Yeah, got myself a pair of Fulcrum racing zeros for €625 a few weeks back and well..

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=78568

Patrick, where did you see them for 625 online, cheapest I had spotted them on German websites was 699 but if you can save me 74e please do!!!!!!
Thanks

C3PO

Arrived this morning with An Post, everything bang on! The parcel arrived in Ireland at 3.00am on Friday morning .... wonder where it from there?

Jawgap

C3PO wrote: »

Arrived this morning with An Post, everything bang on! The parcel arrived in Ireland at 3.00am on Friday morning .... wonder where it from there?

Porlaoise - seriously!

I followed my package through DHL's site and it left the Nieuwald in Germany on Tuesday morning last week and arrived into Dublin, via Cologne, on Wednesday morning.

It spent Wednesday and Thursday in Dublin (presumably sightseeing) - in fact if it was at the airport I probably cycled by it a few times.

An Post then took it to Portlaoise where it arrived on Friday morning - maybe it wanted to get to Tullamore to see the Galway v Wexford and Laois v Meath games.

On Monday it returned to Dublin and was delivered to me:)

Holyboy

I ordered a couple of things from them that just weren't available any where else but what I really liked was in the dispatch email they told me to "have fun" with the parts when they arrived, how thoughtful of them

Mycroft H

Jawgap wrote: »

Porlaoise - seriously!

I followed my package through DHL's site and it left the Nieuwald in Germany on Tuesday morning last week and arrived into Dublin, via Cologne, on Wednesday morning.

It spent Wednesday and Thursday in Dublin (presumably sightseeing) - in fact if it was at the airport I probably cycled by it a few times.

An Post then took it to Portlaoise where it arrived on Friday morning - maybe it wanted to get to Tullamore to see the Galway v Wexford and Laois v Meath games.

On Monday it returned to Dublin and was delivered to me:)

Portlaoise is the national sorting centre, most post is routed through there.

Pablo Rubio

I've been getting stuff from bike24.de lately. Takes about 5-6 days to come by DHL , but they're knocking the socks off CRC wiggle etc.. pricewise . Well worth the few days wait in my opinion. €10 euro DHL delivery charge , which is fairly reasonable IMO , plus I always order a load of cheap water bottles and tubes and other sundries to fill up the order which makes it all very worth while.

route66

Pablo Rubio wrote: »

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€10 euro DHL delivery charge , which is fairly reasonable IMO , plus I always order a load of cheap water bottles and tubes and other sundries to fill up the order which makes it all very worth while.

Eh, isn't this just going to cost you more?

I say this because it's exactly what I did with my recent order with Rose...