go faster parts importation

**zooter** · 24th October 2005, 19:01

Originally Posted by raff32

Hey zooter,
I am the guy from the sip site that gave ralf the dhl stuff to look at, my name on there is ultraphine, small world eh? Apparently though he has since backed out, I got a message the other day from a guy who got some gear sent here to oz and they snipped him for 175 euros for 7 kgs stuff. Hey tex, It has been interesting reading your history on this site from when you first got your bella to now.

Hope there is room on here for an aussie? Ive been buyinf bits off your trademe for quite a while, there is quite alot of smallframe stuff to be had there eh? (the eh was in no way taking the piss....eh)

I tried inviting the 2snz to take up residence here on KB , such a pain that yahoo email group.

/edit this has turned into a bit of a rant. informative nonetheless:

Ralf seems to be a little slow on the uptake in English, he gets it together eventually but it's a struggle. I followed the instructions I got and they claimed I never left the supplementary instuctions to do the DHL deal in the online order system. Maybe the internet gremlins ate it or maybe the rest of the staff couldn't give a shit about getting it translated.

Next thing I'm getting an email saying thanks for the order your parts will be dispatched ups soon. GRRR.

I checked up on my Visa to make sure they'd cancelled the auto debit and found it was still there. I had to phone Germany to get it sorted.

It wound up costing 120euro to get 11 odd kg sent properly insured, coming semi express. The extended insurance on the slow service apparently gets massively reduced by some post office formula so not too flash. Whatever freight shedule he was using is a mystery to me. Definitely not the dhl internet one.

They wound up wingeing about the time taken to answer all the email making the deal not worth their while. I find that a bit hard to swallow. They offered to do the deal so why complain to their customer? Bizzare. A few teething troubles getting the full story on the freight communicated, so what? All he needs to do now is summarise it in an email to send out to anyone else wanting the cheaper freight. And keep an eye out for orders going downunder in case the gremlins ate the instructions. Easy peasy.

**zooter** · 1st November 2005, 22:16

My parcel arrived today, unmolested except for maybe an xray. 12 days from when I made payment, not bad at all.
Now I've got a grubby motor looking at me. I need to get an engine stand made up and get it cleaned up somewhere before tearing into it.