yankeefan

I think they were being opportunistic. It would have been a lot more genuine if they gave me at least a month before letting the coupon expire. It almost seems as if they are "tricking" me into making another purchase that I wasn't intending on making.

kbarch

Whaddaya know - I finally filled out a "Lost in Post" declaration for the Chain Reaction order this afternoon, and the package was waiting for me when I got home.

I got the original Wiggle order Monday a couple of days after the replacement order arrived.

In the future, I'll just have to make sure whatever I decide to order (from overseas especially) is worth paying a few extra bucks for tracked shipping.

GhostSS

I ordered a campy wheelset from Wiggle with free shipping and I received it here in Hawaii is less than one week via DHL.

BENZ28

I second this^^.
Ive ordered twice from Wiggle in the last two weeks, neither order has taken longer than 72 hours to get from the time I order to the time it was on my door step, UK to south Texas. Heck I placed an order with a vendor in Dallas days before my last order with wiggle and haven't seen it yet, however DHL texted me today and said my package would be here tomorrow.

mattm

Recently tried out pbk for the first time; prices were too good to pass up, but the time taken to get my **** was enough to make me pay more next time.

I got the mail that my stuff was "despatched" after a few weeks, then a week later a ransom note of sort from customs saying I needed to cough up an extra $22 to get my stuff.. not worth it if you ask me!

yankeefan

Still haven't gotten my stuff as yet. Another snow storm today certainly isn't helping.

gaucho777 

+1, I purchased a set of NOS vintage Campagnolo hoods from Italy over a month ago. The ebay seller shipped the item on Feb. 5 from his local post office in Italy. Poste Italiane tracking says it left the Milan post office for the U.S. on Feb. 11. USPS says the item is still in Italy.

yankeefan

After the whole Armstrong & Dr. Ferrari affair you can't really blame USPS for being hostile to anything cycling related originating from Italy

SevenTwentyNine

Learned my lesson the hard way. Ordered a new gruppo from some idiots in the UK ... strongly want to name shame them here but don't know the rules or etiquette for this forum. Any way the after nearly three weeks of them saying we've got it in stock any time now, to them then saying we don't have it in stock but soon, to then our supplier is holding us up etc etc I had to cancel on them. If they weren't useless in telling me the truth I would have cancelled earlier instead of being strung along for weeks. Not buying any 'pro bike kit' from them ever again. Never.

Needless to say if you want to buy 'pro bike kit' for 'foul weather' make sure it's being shipped domestically from somewhere in the 48 states. Even though the company website header may end in USA for example, "BlaBlahBla USA". Click the contact us button and if they're in Chesire, for example, stay away.

Once you go looking internationally, you'll deserve what you get. You saw someone earlier mention an 11 week delay for example.

GuitarBob

Well done!

rms13

Ordered from Merlin on Monday, got UPS notice that it's scheduled for delivery tomorrow. So 3 days UK to California with free shipping. I can't get stuff from Nashbar that fast.

bianchi10

I shipped some Oakleys to a buddy in the UK over 3 months ago and he still hasn't received them.

FBinNY 

FWIW- the longest it's ever taken for me sending to the UK is about 3 weeks or so. Sometimes stuff lays in customs because they notified the consignee of duty or VAT due, and never received payment. These come back to me in about 2 months after mailing. (I italicized "notified" because many people have told me they were never sent any notice that they had packages in customs).

I sspect that some postal worker or customs guy is wearing a nice set of Oakleys now.

PatrickGSR94

Ordered some pedals from CRC last Monday, and got the email early Tuesday morning 4/7 (mid-morning UK time) that my order had been dispatched. But of course it's not tracked. Guess I'll probably be waiting awhile longer, yes?

rms13

I have placed two recent orders from Merlin. One was for a new groupset and had it at my house in CA 3 business days after ordering. That one was delivered via UPS. Second order was for some tires and tubes and took about 2 weeks and came USPS

PatrickGSR94

Well CRC does say 4-8 business days, so 8 days from when it shipped last Tuesday would be this Friday. So we'll see!

cellery

Just got new chain/casette/pedals from PBK in about 2 weeks from the date of shipment using standard international. Sometimes those incredible savings over U.S. prices comes with a wait. I'm in AZ.