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Re: 827 STAINLESS exhaust manifolds - ONE LEFT!

Post by Alucard7002 » Mon Jan 18, 2016 11:04 am

Hi all.
Bad news I'm afraid, the provisional price of £225 I quoted above is not actually feasible.

Long story short the bloke wants $800 to ship with UPS, he will only use UPS.

I can get FedEx to do it for $538 however he will not use them.

My contacts in the USA had agreed to have the manifolds shipped to them first and then onwards to me. However the combined costs exceed $750

In other words no bulk buy discount worth faffing with!

I'm sorry to get everyones hopes up only to dash them against a wall. Can you all forgive me? :oops:
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Re: 827 STAINLESS exhaust manifolds - ONE LEFT!

Post by scoobyh123 » Mon Jan 18, 2016 1:09 pm

Thanks for letting us know Dusan :cry: i think we can forgive you though! :D

Had a quick look on fleabay and there are a couple of other sellers with the same item, i wonder if it would be worth approaching one of them?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OBX-Stainless ... SwEeFU9iMH

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OBX-Exhaust-H ... AOSwQTVV~Y~-

One of them lists the postage as being something like £40 but then there are customs charges of about the same on top - presumably these are already built into the shipping charges with the other sellers?
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Re: 827 STAINLESS exhaust manifolds - ONE LEFT!

Post by midnite » Mon Jan 18, 2016 4:20 pm

there are quite a few different dealers like dave says, one of them must be up for a deal, i must admit I've had stuff before from the states, and they seem immune to having a deal, they are like "these are the rules and thats it" all the people I've dealt with have been so wooden as well.
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Re: 827 STAINLESS exhaust manifolds - ONE LEFT!

Post by midnite » Mon Jan 18, 2016 4:35 pm

http://www.rsaperformance.com/aboutus.html

try this one dusan, they look half sensible, some of them do free internal us shipping, so if you could get them delivered to your contact for free and then its just the cost of international shipping to us.
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Re: 827 STAINLESS exhaust manifolds - ONE LEFT!

Post by scoobyh123 » Mon Jan 18, 2016 4:50 pm

I wonder if we would have more luck going direct to OBX?

http://www.obxracingsports.com/products.php?pk=1686

They may be willing to do the deal, especially if it's pointed out to them their dealers weren't willing to deal!

Just a thought............ :D
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Re: 827 STAINLESS exhaust manifolds - ONE LEFT!

Post by midnite » Mon Jan 18, 2016 4:57 pm

i just had a look on there website dave as well, they don't do orders and when you click on there list of dealers thats blank too, it may be worth asking them due to wanting a number of them to make it worth there while sending them too us direct.
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Post by scoobyh123 » Mon Jan 18, 2016 6:00 pm

midnite wrote:http://www.rsaperformance.com/aboutus.html

try this one dusan, they look half sensible, some of them do free internal us shipping, so if you could get them delivered to your contact for free and then its just the cost of international shipping to us.

Good find Matt and it's only $218 per manifold from them as well!

Found the answer to the mystery about the other seller only using UPS to ship them - they're drop-shipping. Basically they list the item, sell it then place an order on the supplier which in this case is OBX who then ship the item to the customer. The seller then pays for the item (at a reduced price) and pockets the difference. It means the seller has little or no stock holding so cuts down on warehousing costs, staff etc.

http://www.obxracingsports.com/news.php?news_item_key=6

THat gives a few more details but not many as far as i can see - it would explain the list of dealers being empty and the drop-shippers list is currently empty as well, perhaps waiting to be populated!
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Post by Alucard7002 » Mon Jan 18, 2016 10:30 pm

Well then!

Buying direct from here works out at £223.25.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OBX-Exhaust-H ... AOSwQTVV~Y~-

I've messaged him to ask for a bulk discount.

We shall see!
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Post by scoobyh123 » Mon Jan 18, 2016 11:05 pm

Fingers crossed then! Even at that price it's still cheaper than we were hnipg for from the original prospective supplier.

A bulk discount would make it even sweeter! :D
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Post by Alucard7002 » Tue Jan 19, 2016 8:17 pm

No such luck, that chap is also drop shipping from OBX. He won't budge on the price at all.

I'll email OBX and see what they say.
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Post by scoobyh123 » Tue Jan 19, 2016 8:41 pm

Go for it! Seems we have nothing to lose now - looks like all their sellers are drop-shipping and possibly locked into a contract where they can't undercut each other so the only way is straight to the horses mouth.

Fingers crossed - again! :lol:
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Post by scoobyh123 » Mon Feb 22, 2016 9:20 pm

Any news on this Dusan?
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Re: 827 STAINLESS exhaust manifolds - ONE LEFT!

Post by Alucard7002 » Tue Feb 23, 2016 12:40 am

No such luck, OBX do not want to do a deal. Beat bet is to wait until the eBay seller does $199 Inc postage :-/

Sorry for the hype and no return, blame the yanks ;-)
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Post by scoobyh123 » Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:37 am

At least you tried - OBX are a PITA for not wanting to play and so are the sellers that are dropshipping their kit.

Can't see the seller doing $199 delivered somehow though. :cry: If it wasn't for the fact i'm going to need a new front pipe at some point in the near future for the Sterling i'd probably say " 'k'em" and not bother.

Thanks for your efforts anyway :wink: :D
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Re: 827 STAINLESS exhaust manifolds - ONE LEFT!

Post by midnite » Tue Feb 23, 2016 10:09 pm

bloody yanks, they defy making money, I've emailed a company flogging them on eBay america to see how much it gonna cost for one, I'm getting desperate for it as it will take a while to get here.
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