AMB TranX 260 transponders - bulk purchase?

[SKIDA//00]

yea as choppa said me and johnny are keen to get one nicksta.cheers.
let me know where to send the money..nice

[Nicksta]

Are people using the battery version or the direct powered one?

I used the battery (rechargable) one all winter series last year and it worked fine.... i guess if you run total loss it may factor in the one you choose, also if your thinking of resale value, a battery one would be the way to go over the hard wired direct one

[Clivoris]

I bought direct powered. Cheaper initial outlay. Nothing to charge before the meeting (imagine forgetting to do this) and with regard to resale, I wasn't sure about the life-span of the rechargeable batteries. I reckon rechargeable has advantages if you are running two bikes with one transponder. You only need to have a spare bracket and Bob's your Uncle.

[ArcherWC]

id prefer the hard wired one myself

[scracha]

AMB are first class arseholes. A few months back I enquired about distributing them over here but they wanted about 60 grand outlay for a shoddy 14% markup BEFORE expenses.

I got mine through the MNZ deal that was happening a few months back. I suggest you get the numbers together and forward the MNZ secretary/admin a list of names and suggest they organise another run. After all, it's them who've dicated we use a transponder that's not officially available here.

Otherwise if you're not claiming back GST you're as well buying them individiually from Australia and not declaring the GST on the import.

[Maarty]

Me to thanks!

[svs]

when the vicclub did the bulk buy last year we had to buy 30 transponders to get the 10% discount. that was a lot of money for the club to lay out with no guarentee that we'd get it back. Not sure if the club would have enough money for the outlay to go and do it again.

I think Tim Gibbes tried to bring some in too. but not sure if that worked.

So if you can get 30 people together, you may get a discount. else it may be better just to bring them in one at a time and see if you bypass the gst

[ArcherWC]

My MX Club (RODNEY) got a Lion Foundation grant to pay for a whole lot for the club. these were then passed on to the members for huge discounts (about $100 instead of $350 for the MX ones). Could VMCC look at the same ????

[speed63]

Count me in for Battery Rechargable too please

[Nicksta]

when the vicclub did the bulk buy last year we had to buy 30 transponders to get the 10% discount. that was a lot of money for the club to lay out with no guarentee that we'd get it back. Not sure if the club would have enough money for the outlay to go and do it again.

I think Tim Gibbes tried to bring some in too. but not sure if that worked.

So if you can get 30 people together, you may get a discount. else it may be better just to bring them in one at a time and see if you bypass the gst

true.... if we can get enough people to pre pay it should be ok though...

My MX Club (RODNEY) got a Lion Foundation grant to pay for a whole lot for the club. these were then passed on to the members for huge discounts (about $100 instead of $350 for the MX ones). Could VMCC look at the same ????

sounds like a really good idea Brian......
what do you think SVS?

[Nicksta]

so we total 11 so far.......
any one else keen?

[Clivoris]

My MX Club (RODNEY) got a Lion Foundation grant to pay for a whole lot for the club. these were then passed on to the members for huge discounts (about $100 instead of $350 for the MX ones). Could VMCC look at the same ????

My guess would be that there were lots of kids involved in the MX club and the application was written up from the angle of youth development. We looked at it for the pokie money and we struggled to meet the criteria including the demographic of our membership. I may be wrong, so if someone wants to check this out and write the application please go hard.

[Clivoris]

Seriously folks, if someone wants to explore whether the Vic Club can get the purchase of some of these subsidised through some kind of funding, and then have the savings passed on to our members; feel free to check it out.

[scott411]

we did this as well when the Pukekohe club purchased their own amb system, (although we did not subserdise them as much as Rodney did)

it is easy to do with the origanl pruchase of the timing gear (loop decoder, software) to include some xtra transponders, i think it would be much harder to get charity funding for a extra personal transponders,

the second hand market for the mx transponders is pretty good, they sell easily, and people are getting nearly what they paid for them 3 years ago, i can not see why the road racing ones would be any different,

[Clivoris]

Who provided the funding?