Online Purchases - good and bad experiences

BigVin · Postby **BigVin** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:14 pm

Ordered with Wiggle last Thursday AM, it arrived today AM, exactly 1 week.
Brilliant.

Also ordered a Team Eight kit from Team Eight on Tuesday, arrived today.

bura · Postby **bura** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:54 pm

has anyone else noticed that wiggle are no longer doing the 5 pound voucher for updating your newsletter preferences?

jaseyjase · Postby **jaseyjase** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:38 pm

Shop Online: Chain Reaction Cycles UK
Item: Shimano R550 front wheel
Timeline: Ordered Wed 16/2 Dispatched Thu 17/2 Arrived Mon 21/2

Over the weekend and all, fuggin brilliant

drubie · Postby **drubie** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:01 pm

I ordered a tiny package from c r c - took 3 weeks! I forgot all about it, but there it was in the mrs hands with that please explain look!

lyno · Postby **lyno** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:18 pm

Placed an order with Cell Bikes late on Sunday night, despatched on Monday, delivered this afternoon

triangle · Postby **triangle** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:19 pm

Bought 2 x Conti GP4000s tyres from Torpedo7 at $AUS49 each (seemed like a very good deal compared to the $70 - $100 each I was seeing elsewhere). Postage was $9. Took six days to arrive, exactly as they said it would. They are already on my brand new RS80 wheels

Big_Red · Postby **Big_Red** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:41 pm

Wiggle sent me a "we miss you" email tonight about Â£5 off when you use the with the e-voucher code b8415-de687 if you buying anything > Â£25.

Useable for the next fortnight.

Dekamate · Postby **Dekamate** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:43 pm

Online shopping.
Found a few cheap and good sites :
http://www.this link is broken is ok, range is good, prices are cheap but the customer service and delivery times are really disapointing. Three order with them and each one had some problem or took a long time.
http://www.bikeinn.com/bike seems to have good postage rates and range but the turnaround is proving to be a bit slow. Ordered a saddle from them last week and still waiting for shipping info...
these guys are in Spain.

Range, price and customers service, you'll always get two out of the three.

booge · Postby **booge** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 7:05 pm

Twice now I've paid for priority despatch on Wiggle and both times it has taken longer than regular despatch.....won't be bothering again.

YouTube · Postby **Boognoss** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 7:28 pm

booge wrote:Twice now I've paid for priority despatch on Wiggle and both times it has taken longer than regular despatch.....won't be bothering again.

Same here. Not sure why the extra $7 makes it slower......... Wiggle is great with the standard shipping.

chill · Postby **chill** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:10 pm

Big_Red wrote:Wiggle sent me a "we miss you" email tonight about Â£5 off when you use the with the e-voucher code b8415-de687 if you buying anything > Â£25.

Useable for the next fortnight.

Big_Red you legend. Just used it on my order for new wheels and levers. Cheers.

Ordered seatpost from c r c. It took less than a week. Ordered bars from Probikekit on the same day and still waiting...

lyno · Postby **lyno** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:38 pm

Order from c r c on Sunday 13th, despatched on Monday 14th and delivered today. I think Australia Post is probably responsible for most of the delay, my stuff is delivered to Toowong in Brisbane who are also handling all of the mail from Milton which has been closed due to the floods. At least the delay meant I got my delivery on my birthday!!

Electric Blue · Postby **Electric Blue** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:55 pm

I was going to order some Torq energy bars through Wiggle, anyone have any problems in getting food/on line orders through customs?

HAKS · Postby **HAKS** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 7:01 am

Electric Blue wrote:I was going to order some Torq energy bars through Wiggle, anyone have any problems in getting food/on line orders through customs?

I've never ordered gels/food from wiggle, but have done so from PBK. Never had any issues at all. If it's processed and packaged customs are rarely going to care unless it has something prohibited in it.

Aushiker · Postby **Aushiker** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 3:23 pm

HAKS wrote:
Electric Blue wrote:I was going to order some Torq energy bars through Wiggle, anyone have any problems in getting food/on line orders through customs?
I've never ordered gels/food from wiggle, but have done so from PBK. Never had any issues at all. If it's processed and packaged customs are rarely going to care unless it has something prohibited in it.

Hi

Pretty much should be okay as long as it does not contain meat

Andrew

Electric Blue · Postby **Electric Blue** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:59 pm

Aushiker wrote:
HAKS wrote:
Electric Blue wrote:I was going to order some Torq energy bars through Wiggle, anyone have any problems in getting food/on line orders through customs?
I've never ordered gels/food from wiggle, but have done so from PBK. Never had any issues at all. If it's processed and packaged customs are rarely going to care unless it has something prohibited in it.
Hi

Pretty much should be okay as long as it does not contain meat

Andrew

How would you know.........

gururug · Postby **gururug** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 11:42 pm

New 105 groupset from ribble.

Checking out the new 105 levers today, I go to install the 10mm shim's, there are two RHS shims.

Email ribble, they reply promptly and offer to post the correct 10mm LHS shim to me but warn it may take a month.

Pretty happy with the outcome.

Check your shims!!!

Redbull · Postby **Redbull** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 11:49 pm

Electric Blue wrote:
Aushiker wrote:
HAKS wrote: I've never ordered gels/food from wiggle, but have done so from PBK. Never had any issues at all. If it's processed and packaged customs are rarely going to care unless it has something prohibited in it.
Hi

Pretty much should be okay as long as it does not contain meat

Andrew
How would you know.........

I'm buying some protein bars from the Spanish Primary Producers Federation called "Clenbars". Should I be worried?

Postby **thomashouseman** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:52 am

Get a 15% off voucher from Wiggle....
Go to place my order and get:

Unavailable stock!

Not available for despatch to Australia
Continental Ultra GatorSkin Road Tyre
27 x 1 1/4Black

Grrgrh!

chill · Postby **chill** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 1:15 pm

thomashouseman wrote:Get a 15% off voucher from Wiggle....
Go to place my order and get:

Unavailable stock!

Not available for despatch to Australia
Continental Ultra GatorSkin Road Tyre
27 x 1 1/4Black

Grrgrh!

At least your voucher works.

This is the second one that doesn't apply for me. Emailed them first time and they fixed it up, hopefully they'll do it for the 15% as well.

3T Ergonova Pro bars arrived from Probikekit. Just a heads up for anyone buying these they are measured at the bottom of the drops which are flared but the top section will be a couple of cms shorter than your size, eg 42cm=39cm roughly. I'm returning them for an exchange.

Electric Blue · Postby **Electric Blue** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 6:50 pm

Redbull wrote:
Electric Blue wrote: How would you know.........
I'm buying some protein bars from the Spanish Primary Producers Federation called "Clenbars". Should I be worried?

Well known to be developed from the lumpy bit of a Bulls testes...... avoid.......

Redbull · Postby **Redbull** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:27 pm

That would explain the shape. Also they are so big that I can only fit one bar into each pocket.

GWH74 · Postby **GWH74** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:48 pm

Looking at purchasing a SRAM Rival groupset. The cheapest place i could find it was at Ribble.
I have tried PBK, Wiggle, c r c and Ribble are the cheapest.

Anyone have any other good sites for cheap SRAM groupsets or a Discount code for Ribble?

Thanks

gururug · Postby **gururug** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 12:39 am

chill wrote: At least your voucher works.

This is the second one that doesn't apply for me. Emailed them first time and they fixed it up, hopefully they'll do it for the 15% as well.

Pretty tricky marketing.......

, on second thought down right deceptive.

HAKS · Postby **HAKS** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:55 am

Key with the wiggle discount is it is only off the list price. If you are a platinum customer you already get 12% off list price, so it may only be another 3% discount. Other items might not apply as they already are more then 15% off.