OzVMX Forum
Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: mx250 on February 15, 2008, 11:40:16 am
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Postage Costs for an expansion chamber - US to Oz?
What would you expect to pay?
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$65.00 to $85.00 USD depending on the size , as in this case its more of a volume issue than actual weight.
We got a husky pipe and silencer last year and it was $65.00 USD for the freight.
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MX250 circle-f pipe cost $60.00
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Circle F quote 2 in a box for $75 usd ( as Jan 2008 ) and you just put the mufflers on later so it must be a certain lenght box he ships them in.
Sounds like we are all around the same money and it seems its the size that tips it not the weight cause I paid $100 for a set of forks in a small long box, but they weigh a lot.
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To right
It generally works on volume , we also paid a similar amount just before Xmas to import a set of forks. Fairly large box , even when the forks are dismantled.
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Thanks guys. I have emailed the seller with a link to this thread and asking him to review the postage. We'll see how it goes.
I don't mind paying, I just don't like paying through the nose ;D.
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got a pipe from dirt overstock the day USPS put the rates up - was $63 US then but jumped as did all their costs - I would be surprised if you still get it for around $65US???
Rossco
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will be more if the seller has a handling and packing fee
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I paid about $75 (give or take) to ship a Circle F pipe for my TM. It may be more now.
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I was quoted $285 for chamber plus a shoe box of extras.
Pay through the nose - more like having your nasal passage reamed with a fist :-\.
We'll see how it goes. Thanks guys.
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Make sure you ask for it to be shipped by USPS. Most of the other shipping companies are ridiculously expensive.
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I tried to get a husky pipe from the US and asked the seller for a shipping price, but because it was longer than 48", the seller said that the post office refused to send it.
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Get GMC or another Aussie specialist to make your custom pipe and stuff paying the overseas freight.
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ive had stupid stuff like that happen. i was told a PO over there reckons that a plastic fuel tank was too big to ship and didnt fit with in the limits. im not sure what i did, but i either told the seller to try another PO or he send it to my US friend and then he shipped it no problems.
i was looking at getting a used DG pipe i saw and i was quoted US $60 for it. i thought that was very good. i was prepared to pay over $100 for it but then i pulled out at last minute because it just didnt look like it was off the bike the seller said it was and they wouldnt send me better photos or answer my questions so i didnt want to take the risk paying lots for it and then getting it here and being wrong. the worst part was that it only ended up selling for about $60 and i now regret my decision, beacuse even if it didnt fit i could of easily sold it.
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Get GMC or another Aussie specialist to make your custom pipe and stuff paying the overseas freight.
I got the pipe for $0.99US ;D
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&viewitem=&item=310021075372
I really didn't expect to win the pipe at this price but I had won a few other items and thought I would 'throw it in' to make for reasonable postage.
I grabbed the pipe for originality as well. If I get this thing together and race it I might end up with a GMC pipe as well.
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I was quoted $585US to send over an engine. The engine only sold for $93. . I have been told by sellers in USA the USPS no longer has surface mail option.
So what other options are their for heavier items like an engine?
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Find someone who brings conatiners over, like a vehicle importer.
They often look for other bits and pieces to fill the containers with.
Roly Leahy imports is one
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Might be the only way rodder. Heres a reply I got yesterday when I askeed same question to another seller on importing an engine.
Howdy
Are you sitting down? Better sit down before you read the price from the USPS.
$507
It's not the size it's the weight. I just put it on a scale and it's
just over 60 lbs. UPPS max for a package is 70 lbs and while I
could probably get it crated for the trip and keep it under 70lbs
it wouldn't be by much.
Being that I've never seen this engine run and while I've spun it
around and shifted it through the gears and everything looks
fine it doesn't necessarily mean that it won't have some problem
crop up. Investing $500 in shipping is just too much risk since
paypal would refund your money if you complained to them and
I'd be out the cost of shipping it. So I must say no to sending it
to Australia. Though I expect that the $500 shipping killed your
interest in it anyway.
Sorry, William
A little better then last quote but still way to much. Cant blame the seller not wanting to ship it with risk involved
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I got the pipe for $0.99US ;D
Well, I can't compete with that :(
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I got the pipe for $0.99US ;D
Well, I can't compete with that :(
I can understand a USA purchase if its a hard to fine used part or no one in Aussie produce's it....
I reckon buying from GMC seems like best way to go. Buying from USA your already $100 down in freight before you start. If its gets lost in post your as good as stuffed.
Why would you when theirs a homegrown product, spend your dollars in Australia. Same goes for shocks. Just buy YSS.
Unless their is no other option or a masive dollar saving why bother buying offshore, i'll spend my coin with a local company. ;D
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I bet, if you put an ozzie pipe on your bike (GMC), you'll never ever scratch it. Put one on that you've gone through all the trouble of getting from The States and the first time you put it on the ute, a tie-down will brake, your bike will do a one-and-a-half backflip with a pike and said pipe will flatten itself on the bike stand beside it >:(. I'll bet anything........
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Just had a nice Ebay experience. I just had to pass it on.
A Yankee Ebayer charged me $15US for postage; his real cost of postage was $18.80US.
So you see some of our Yankee friends real do love us ;D.
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Certainly worth doing your homework. My joy at finding parts for my CB350 roadracer at bargain cost, Gearbox shafts c/w gears and bearings $12.50, shifter drum c/w forks $9.95, soon turned lopsided when the quoted freight cost from Canada is $75.30 surface, $139.30 airmail in US dollars. Never quite get over the feeling you're being gently massaged.... :-[
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Stuff from Canada is way expensive. I bought a set of shoulder pads and questioned the price. He promptly gave me the link to their postage calculator to find out that it is just bloody dear.So he might not be massaging you at all.
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He promptly gave me the link to their postage calculator to find out that it is just bloody dear.
That, I don't understand - there must be reciprocal arrangements between the postal services. You would think the charges would approximate each other ::).
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Ah, it's easy come, easy go for me. I've had fun buying all my riding gear and some bits off ebay, scored some great bargains, and met some good people all over the joint, including this forum, since deciding to get stuck into vmx. And just one of those CB350 selectors new costs more than the entire transaction, so no worries. Thanks for the perspective though, 090.
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The good thing about dealing with YSS and GMC is your talking to the man if you know what I mean ;D Not some bloke thats watching the clock and doesn't give a shit these Aussie suppliers need us to buy from them supporting them is really supporting VMX in Aussie thats the way I see it .jimson