Alright, do you all want to know the truth? Here's what's really going down.
Retrogression has the best prices on their products because they are using their shipping as a profit center. They drop their product cost, and make up for it by jacking up shipping fees. They trick their customers into thinking they get a better price, but in reality retro is no cheaper than anyone else. It's just where you pay for the difference that changes. Scrod had no interest in using my account because that means I wouldn't be paying his inflated shipping prices. Talk about what people will do for a few bucks huh? I'm done here, mods close this thread.

$80 bucks to ship:
Velocity Chukker front wheel
Leader 721 frame
Leader 106TR fork
SRAM S300 cranks
KMC Chain
FSA ZS3 Headset
Dropbars
Deda stem

Across the country.....

Highway robbery

Do you know what people usually charge to ship a frameset alone?
well over $80

You need to stop nickel and diming and just break the dollar.
40 bucks on a thousand dollar purchase? That's what his profit margin is?

really?

Oh! I feel so exposed!

Not true at all. In fact, we very often lose a few bucks here and there on the shipping end of things due to the fact that boxes, tape and other and shipping materials don't grow on a ****ing tree and cost a lot of money. Until you're doing my accounting, you really can't speak for my shop.

Also, the lights and other utilities at the shop aren't powered by magic. So until you realize how things actually work in the real world, I suggest keeping your mouth shut.

At first, I was offering my help, advice, etc. without even so much as suggesting you buy the stuff from Retrogression. Now I see you're precisely the kind of fool who would get thrown out into the street on your ass if you ever walked into my shop with this "my way or the highway" attitude. Literally.

Good day, sir.

This thread makes me want to buy stuff from you Scrod.

We'll be doing business in the future.

I had to stop writing this twice. I couldn't stop laughing. You just made my week sir, thank you for this. I try to really laugh, but the world is so sad, and you did what nothing else could.

At this point, it would be rude to call you an idiot, but I'm rude and you're an idiot, so its more just a matter of fact now. Please stop before you make me laugh hard enough to stroke out.

Soon to be sigged...BRB

Seriously! I clicked on the thread because the title made it look really dumb ("fixie!!!!") but then I was surprised to see that the OP didn't say anything about building up instead of buying complete in order to "save money" and that the budget was reasonable.

YES.


I kind of hope that this is a really terrible, unfunny April Fool's joke and not that OP is actually this stupid.

+1

Terrible NSFW animated gif. Only for the brave.

https://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1...xqg6o1_400.gif

This thread has been thoroughly entertaining.

You must be new to the internet.

You must be dumb.

Come on guys, let's not lose sight of what this thread is really about.

Nah, just desensitized by the internet.

that's far from terrible, i found it funny.

Holy ****! OP is right, I just threw $1,300 in parts into my cart on Retrogression and that update button had the audacity to imply it would cost me $87 to ship that across the country to me. That's absurd. Clearly, the flying monkeys can get me my stuff without even spending a dime through the space time continuum, therefore, I conclude that Retrogression is a front for the Unitarian church and that Scrod himself is the second cousin of the third brother of a chimney sweep named Hank who sold tacos at a 7-11 in 1977. Hank knew a guy who had one testicle and that, my friends, proves that Scrod knows Lance Armstrong and, by proxy, we're all being scanned for anal cancer through Monster drinks which are really nothing more than Excedrin that cannot be returned to the shelves of America's department stores. I'm pulling my 401k now, while its safe.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuurn.

Serious question, guys: Great .gif, or GREATEST .gif? (my money's on greatest, I have yet to not get sucked into watching it at least a dozen times through each time I see it.)

The warning was for others.

Personally, it made me laugh :|

I don't know about greatest. You check out the one I linked?

Also, I think the OP is gone So sad.

I think he was "gone" from the beginning.

This one's better: