thehammerdog

Assos=Rip off....Nothingis worth what they are charging, rather ride performance gear than that over priced hyped crap...Buy Anything else heck buy 3 shirst it still cost less than 1 Assos...Idiots

pharding

I hear what you are saying. However Assos gear works exceedingly well. It is extremely well designed and engineered. It is well fabricated. They do not change their basic colors so that one can assemble a wardrobe of their products over years and it will all match. It great stuff and it lasts. Unfortunately it has an expensive price tag to match. What is annoying is that their pricing in the US is exorbitant in comparison to what they charge fellow Europeans. Assos is trying to grow the underachieving US market for their products. If they are serious they should charge us based upon what it costs to make their products as opposed to their current strategy of charging what the market will bear with an inflated fixed retail price structure.

kwrides

^^^You've obviously never worn Assos. Idiot.

CHnuschti

I made a comparison between the Assos prices in the various countries a while ago (back when the "S2" line was actual).
My conclusion then was that the prices in USA were better than in the EU and even slightly better than in Switzerland!
My impression then was that the "official" price with the VAT subtracted was more or less the same everywhere.

But I agree that the actually prices in USA when "importing" from EU (VAT: approx. 20% overall, Germany 19%) is that good because the currency exchange rates have changed so much lately. I mean, if I "import" Assos into Switzerland from Germany, it is actually cheaper than buying them directly in Switzerland! Not long ago this was not the case.

I sell used Assos on the USA site of ebay sometimes. I admit doing it because I get the best offers/bids in most cases there from US or Canada buyers, the brand seems still good valued by them.

On the other hand it is viceversa with other goods. If I buy a car, e.g. a Ford, in Switzerland, it still costs a lot more than the same car bought in the USA.

BTW: The RX.LL are not being discontinued.

pharding

The elimination of Ochsner as distributor in the US plus the improved exchange rate should result in lowering of prices for Assos gear in the US in a very tough economic climate. This would also show good faith on the part of Assos in the American market and offset some of the poor public relations generated by the bumbling and inept delivery of Assos products to the US market this year. My long awaited summer bibb shorts arrived in Mid-October, 6 months after I ordered them. My Winter.LL tights might arrive as early as mid-winter here in Chicago.

snoboard2

If you want to be respected, please don't post complete bs like this, especially if it derails a thread. Go read an article not written by Al Gore and you'll find that most of the stuff they're feeding you is twisted statistics or complete lies.

More CO2 is released in ONE volcanic eruption than all of humanity puts out in a year. CO2 isn't even a major "greenhouse" gas. Water vapor is a much more effective and much more present gas than CO2 in our atmosphere. Why don't we have a global H2O witch hunt?

Besides, CO2 levels were higher 15,000 years ago during an ice age than they are now.

If you ARE insistent on posting this garbage, post links to credible sources please.

Start here: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...-warming-myth/

/rant

pharding

You are in denial, however you are entitled to your opinion. There are a preponderance of scientists throughout the world that believe that Global Warming is serious issue. Fortunately the arrogant regime in Washington that has subverted international efforts to begin dealing with this serious issue and has focused instead on a mindless war that resulted in the killing hundreds of thousands innocent people in order to satisfy a personal grudge, will be out of power on January 20. Our friends throughout the world, including the vast majority of our former friends in Western Europe, will be relieved that our cowboy president is gone. We still have to clean up his horrible messes here and abroad. We and our children will have to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars that were borrowed to finance his misjudgments, his mistakes, and the tremendous expense to put things back together. Undoubtedly he will go down as the worst president in US history. He has denied global warming for years, but he too has finally come around to acknowledge that it might be a problem.

dmotoguy

what does any of this have to do with assos?

pharding

This thread is consistent with many other threads here at Bike Forums. Sometimes they just drift off track.

rmfnla

Are there more Aston Martins in England than the U.S.?

I read somewhere that there are more Rolls Royces in Los Angeles than England.

Cyclist0383

Clearly you've never seen the prices that we pay for just about everything else in Europe, they are much higher than in the States. You have noting to complain about.

bicyclinghub

For Gore Bike Wear as a US seller our prices are less than Germany. Primal Wear is also less expensive if you buy it from the United States. It just depends which direction the items are being imported.

Doug
BicyclingHub.com

bicyclinghub

Their bibs aren't as nice but Etxe Ondo makes really great jerseys, jackets and long sleeve jerseys. You should check them out.

Doug

lotek 

+1. If I were going to Shill for anyone it would be for Etxe Ondo.

(Hi Doug how are you doing?)

Marty

ripperj 

Sort of on topic- Several years ago I heard of a co-worker that had bicycle that cost $5k- I said "what kind of dope really spends that kinda coin on a F'n bike"
I still say it, but now I am one of the dopes that has a $5k+ bike(and 3 others that were all over $2k) -I understand the "want" of a $5k bike. "Want" not "Need"
What I still can't fathom is the $500 shoes and $400 bibs. I wear Hammer and they do what I think they should do. If the Assos do some magic to my man-bits please don't tell me yet!
However, I have never tried them and in a year its quite possible I'll "ease" myself into that pool-I really,Really hope not!

Calling someone an Idiot for buying nice things is childish and you probably have envy issues.(Stupid winky thing disregarded-I don't speak silly teen-age girl)
Anyone who spends the money that many of us do on bikes and stuff should be refered to as"mentally challanged" I beleive that is the politically correct term(but what do I know-I'm a mental midget)
PCAD-some backup here(you owe me)???

ripperj 

Pssst-WTF does CO2 and volcanos have to do with the topic? (I know just enough silly teenage girl to survive)

ripperj 

Wow-I feel a little tingle of pride forming-It just dawned on me that threads seem to die anytime I attempt to inject some humor into them.
Maybe that's my purpose here on BF- Thread Killer

CHnuschti

Well...
Sales of different Assos bibs and tights at www.roseversand.de (old models of the S2 line), sold at 50%. Shipment to USA is 30 Euro though (approx. 40 USD). Germany's VAT is 19%.

https://www.roseversand.de/output/con...ereich=&ebene=

Not really the appropriate season, but maybe an occasion to get airplus tights, I used & like them very much, and as it seems, this model is discontinued and won't be renewed.

regards

socalrider

+ on Lickbike, they have mostly older stock but the prices are good.

https://www.lickbike.com/sectionsubli...ME=%27PANTS%27

a Good reliable ebay seller is euromike: https://search.ebay.com/search/search...fsoo%3D1&fgtp=

thirdin77

Having worked in retail, knowing that margins are generally going to be maximized when possible and more generally knowing that profit is the motive, I usually just shrug when I read one of these "why do they make the prices to high?" type of threads but this time I gotta opine...

Anyone who pays $400 for one pair of tights is being hosed and deserves it.

And they probably have enough money that they don't care.