Bike engine freight from Florida, US?

**CookMySock** · 29th March 2010, 19:03

Originally Posted by Tank

So what happened ??

Hehe ok.

We got the engine. It took months. Plenty of hard lessons learned, some of them of our own making.

The first problem was the (ebay) vendor was the sensitive type, and we asked a question about his return policy, and he freaked and instantly blocked me.

So we bid using my mates ebay account and win the auction, and that began a huge trail of false names and fake email addresses to get the money in his account. Next, we explain it in great detail to the freight company, hoping like hell they would understand - we were pissing into the wind hoping for that.. it WAS a convoluted story, but a little attention from their part would of cleared it up. A few other "things" happened too, but I'll let that go.

The engine cost about a grand all-up - about the same price for a bare cylinder head, so we came out of it pretty good.

We'll use kiwishipping again.

The end result is the wifes' big shiny noisy black 650 vtwin brute is on the road and she adores it. Couldn't ask for more than that. The feeling of having her bike built was really great. Looking for more to do now.