Chinese fairing group buy to save on shipping

Adrian89 · Post by **Adrian89** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:59 pm

Hi,

I have noticed recently that a lot of people have been buying the Chinese fairing kits, and basically its the postage price that puts me off.

I am pretty sure that the postage for say 5 kits won't cost a great deal more than the postage for 2 and if a larger order was placed a discount for the kits themselves could be established. So a group buy could potentially save money for the kits, and money on the shipping.

Has anyone investigated this at all in the past? I would be up for ordering a kit, and know of a couple of other people who would too if the price was a bit less on the shipping.

If you are interested in this or have any thoughts I'd like to hear them.

Cheers

Adrian

hannakournikova · Post by **hannakournikova** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:30 pm

Have you seen the size of box they come in?

Post by **CRM** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:42 pm

fookin massive and very well packed. you then goto to distrubute when in the UK, and also have more risk of getting boned by customs.

Post by **petrolhead19** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:50 pm

Yeah i dont see them doing them any cheaper to be honest, plus the £150 postage covers insurance for it to get to you, and yeah the box is huge, i have had 2 lots of fairings from the same company "gtbidshop" on ebay and both sets i paid £300 for that was £150 for fairings and £150 for shipping.

Plus trying to get a response out of any of the companies that sell them is hard enough, i emailed quite a few of them with general inquiries for the fairings and never got a reply back.

Your best bet is to just bite the bullet and pay what they cost, if you want to see what we mean by the size of the box i will take a picture and put it up as i only got a new set of fairings last week.

hannakournikova · Post by **hannakournikova** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:48 pm

Try the guys on alibaba

Adrian89 · Post by **Adrian89** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:26 pm

Hmm ok, well if anyone is interested in me investigating this give me a pm, I have received many pallets worth of fairings at work from Thailand and there is no way it costs £150 per individual bikes worth of fairings. I'm talking the last order was for 13 huge touring bikes worth of fairings.

Post by **thunderace** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 8:49 pm

If you can get 3EN1 race fairings, count me in

Post by **Cammo** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:33 am

Adrian89 wrote:Hmm ok, well if anyone is interested in me investigating this give me a pm, I have received many pallets worth of fairings at work from Thailand and there is no way it costs £150 per individual bikes worth of fairings.

Most sellers on ebay who sell low profit margin items bump up the price of postage to compensate for a lower sale price. Why? You don't pay sellers fees on shipping costs.

The postage price covers insurance also. This sounds like a lot of hassle to me to save 50 quid, especially further distributing them to buyers from a single UK address.

Post by **petrolhead19** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:15 pm

Cammo wrote:
Adrian89 wrote:Hmm ok, well if anyone is interested in me investigating this give me a pm, I have received many pallets worth of fairings at work from Thailand and there is no way it costs £150 per individual bikes worth of fairings.
Most sellers on ebay who sell low profit margin items bump up the price of postage to compensate for a lower sale price. Why? You don't pay sellers fees on shipping costs.

The postage price covers insurance also. This sounds like a lot of hassle to me to save 50 quid, especially further distributing them to buyers from a single UK address.

i have done the same to avoid sellers fees

Adrian89 · Post by **Adrian89** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:46 pm

he got back to me with 5% off for 5 kits or more, with a bit of haggling it might be possible to push that up to 10% but I dont know.

Cheers

Adrian