Originally Posted by
jonpear6
To be fair here, Amazon has now contracted with many LBS' here in Seattle (and I think the US in general) to pay for professional assembly of all complete bikes purchased online. Yeah, Amazon may be murdering a certain segment of the cycling industry, but my shop here gets paid the full rate for assembly of bikes ordered via Amazon. That's a pretty good policy for a multi-national corporation.
All that being said, seriously go to your LBS next time. They will make this process take all of 30 seconds with a pair of calipers.
Yeah man, I don't see anything wrong with Amazon and Ebay. Most of the stuff I buy on there is from Bells Bike Shop one of my local shops here in Philly with a bunch of super cool dudes. It's nice sometimes using their Amazon/Ebay shop so I don't have to take a 30 minute trip down there and the shipping takes like 2 days. I have a shop that's like 3 miles away but I don't like the guys there, I'd rather wait 2 days to get something from Bells even if it's just a chain or tube.