more talk about group buy?
04-27-08, 06:46 PM
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more talk about group buy?
i know this has been discussed about a bit, but I haven't heard a definitive answer yet. just wanting to know if anyone has heard anything new.
04-27-08, 08:59 PM
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NJS group buy.
We find someone willing to fill up a shipping container for us and sell em to us as cost plus x%.
It would work if we could find someone trustworthy to hit up japan and amass the frames.
I'd be in if we could get em at decent ish prices.
We find someone willing to fill up a shipping container for us and sell em to us as cost plus x%.
It would work if we could find someone trustworthy to hit up japan and amass the frames.
I'd be in if we could get em at decent ish prices.
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Another idea, as much as I would like an NJS frame group buy kind of thing, I think this might be more realistic.
You think Alien would be willing to do a group buy on the lugged steel frames he's selling, last I heard they were like 350, I dont know that I think they are worth 350, but if we could get some good color choices and a price break, it might be cool to get a lugged steel frame at a decent price.
Edit: he offers it in a lot of colors now I guess, but he charges for the powder coating...
You think Alien would be willing to do a group buy on the lugged steel frames he's selling, last I heard they were like 350, I dont know that I think they are worth 350, but if we could get some good color choices and a price break, it might be cool to get a lugged steel frame at a decent price.
Edit: he offers it in a lot of colors now I guess, but he charges for the powder coating...
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Another idea, as much as I would like an NJS frame group buy kind of thing, I think this might be more realistic.
You think Alien would be willing to do a group buy on the lugged steel frames he's selling, last I heard they were like 350, I dont know that I think they are worth 350, but if we could get some good color choices and a price break, it might be cool to get a lugged steel frame at a decent price.
You think Alien would be willing to do a group buy on the lugged steel frames he's selling, last I heard they were like 350, I dont know that I think they are worth 350, but if we could get some good color choices and a price break, it might be cool to get a lugged steel frame at a decent price.
04-28-08, 12:47 PM
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small company that could stand to profit from a group buy, steel lugged construction, already a non outrageous price, so there is potential to get a decent steel lugged frame at a really nice price. I just through out the ideas because I dont have a lugged steel frame and want one. More so an NJS frame, as the construction and materials and workmanship are nicer, but I think finding someone in Japan willing to help collect frames for us is far fetched unless parker lewis would do it, and beyond that finding enough people to drop change for the number of frames we would need to get to make it a good deal for all parties involved is a little far fetched.