Why buy via your local distributor?

[That looks like fun]

Monday and Wednesday should have capitals too.

The capital of Monday is Brisbane, not sure about Wednesday, thats in the Northern Hemisphere

[Woodman]

Jedi may be he.

[Taz]

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side.

[JATZ]

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side.

Yebut.... they have cookies

aparently

[warewolf]

Back to the original thread...

Don't forget commercial operations still have to pay things like GST and have a heap of other import compliance costs that private importers don't. Those things are going to push the price up.

Retailers aren't rich - at least, in the bike game, very few are.

I've often thought that shops here need to shift to a more Just In Time system where they get stuff from other places worldwide, within say a week. Dunno quite how it would work, but it seems to me more like being shorn rather than skinned. It seems everyone upstream of the dealers are very reluctant to have co-ordinated parts inventory world-wide. eg why can't Triumph NZ get parts out of Triumph Aus? Why does the customer have to wait 6 weeks extra for them to come from Triumph UK to NZ? The existing business models are quite simply outdated in this interweb-connected world, still rigidly stuck in geo-political states - pardon the pun!

[The Baron]

Hi

I had the same problem with the NZ suppliers for SW Motec crashbars.

Got them from the US in ten days.

Try = TwistedThrottle.com

[Eddieb]

eg why can't Triumph NZ get parts out of Triumph Aus? Why does the customer have to wait 6 weeks extra for them to come from Triumph UK to NZ?

Word has it that KTM are shifting to that model at the moment where they are aligned to, and have access to Australian stocks.

The last bolts I ordered for my KTM took 6 weeks out of Austria. BMW on the other hand take 10 days from Munich.

[Taz]

SW Motech available thru www.Norrus.net in Australia. I've had awesome service from them.

[avgas]

Why is the sky blue?
Where are the car keys?
What time is the best time to pull an investment?
Who is John Galt?
Why chat on Kiwibiker?
Why does no one search for an existing thread before posting?

These questions and many more can only be answer by the gods of speed themselves. And perhaps the smartest person in Taihape.

[Woodman]

why is the sky blue?
Where are the car keys?
What time is the best time to pull an investment?
Who is john galt?
Why chat on kiwibiker?
Why does no one search for an existing thread before posting?

These questions and many more can only be answer by the gods of speed themselves. And perhaps the smartest person in taihape.

wtf ??????????????????

[Eddieb]

Thanks Guys for the different links. There's significant differences in price depending on what country they are sourced from given current exchange rates.

From motorradgarage.com.au, who SW Motech list as their Australian distributor
$339 AUS = $427 NZ

From Twisted Throttle.com
$200 US = $252 NZ

I'm surprised at the difference on whats a relatively cheap item. I wonder how much shipping from the US is.

[pampa]

Word has it that KTM are shifting to that model at the moment where they are aligned to, and have access to Australian stocks.

The last bolts I ordered for my KTM took 6 weeks out of Austria. BMW on the other hand take 10 days from Munich.

may be but they will charge as if the BM president went personally to get them

I got quoted
bm = Hub + sprocket carrier the same as
overseas= whole wheel (above+spockes+4xbearings+4xseals+cush rubbers+excell rim+ put it all together)

pay a bit extra ... maybe, that was too much

[Jantar]

i got crash bars 3 weeks a go ktm one 2 days to get them wheels of thames

The BDOTGNZA are horrified. What on earth does this dribble mean?

[Monstaman]

For me here in Wanaka where our nearest shop is still a courier away, overnight means three to four days here.

So for me most of the time the shop either does not have it, wants to charge like a wounded bull or can't be bothered.

So, these guys buy in bulk and I am one guy with a credit card and I can still get stuff in quicker and cheaper than them??, someone in the middle is rapping this too hard, our exchange is good but funny enough they ARE using the same exchange rates as us.

I would rather buy local but it sure as hell won't be happening if they try to rip me as I work hard for my money too.

[trustme]

I try to buy local , I really only go offshore if the parts are not available in NZ because there is no supplier or if the supplier can not supply in a reasonable period of time.
Don't mind paying a bit more to support locals, we'd be in the shit if we had to get everything from offshore because the locals had gone broke.