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Yeah not gonna happen. Sort out your global distro Pinkbike, you'd sell a TON of this tuff to us UK PBers if you had sensible UK based shipping costs.
Sure the fees are demostic due to importing things through private channels (exaclty the same is true when you guys complain about CRC deliveries) and the processing fee is a legalised con permited by the Government to allow Parcel Force to charge what they like to look at a sticker on a box and bill me for the VAT.
On the other hand there's a shit ton of UK based PBers (of a population of 68m versus Canada's 38m) so it's not like we're a trivial market. Cascade Components branch out to us by setting up at some residential address to be able to offer UK sourced shipping and expanding their market, I guess they overcome the extra by covering the import costs upfront themselves but then charging us £ = $ price but with free shipping and no fees which will blind most people into just buying it without even thinking.
$34 to ship a jersey weighing 100g and foldable down to the size of the smallest envelope ever is a piss take though, regardless if it's going to the UK or Timbuktu. It's not a perfect world I know, but it would just be nice to be able to get some merch without having our pants pulled down.
PB is based in squamish which is over 7,500km away from London. That certainly is the other side.of the world. Even the far side of Canada can be called the other side of the world.
I don't think you understand how international shipping works, let alone PB's business strategy. They're a publishing company, not a producer of parts like Cascade. They sell a very small volume in comparison to a manufacturer meaning they don't get the same rates that a company that relies on shipping all over the world would.
I can walk into my local tin pot Post Office and send a £50 value 200g item (eg a jersey) in a package of a reasonable size to anywhere in Canada for £12 ($20CAD) on 5 day delivery, if a company that sells things to a worldwide audience doesn't have at least some discount on shipping because they post a ton more stuff than I do, I'd hazard they're doing it wrong. If that's the blanket no weight limit shipping fee then to make it worthwhile I'd have to buy lots of gear to make it efficient or something silly sized like an umbrella, but that compounds the duty/VAT issue.
I don't think Cascade are a massive company (must apologise, I thought they were in BC turns out they're in WA) but they have their UK return address as a house in the middle of a residential area so they're hardly some global conglomerate. But that facilitates free shipping which is ideal and surely their product range is narrower than PB's merch range.
But no I don't know PBs strategy, unless a company is in existence to make money, then surely enabling more people to buy your stuff makes more money and greases the wheels to do better articles etc etc, am I being too simplistic or is it just cool not to be corporate? I don't know what the readership is in the UK, but MTB is huge here so a UK or European based person posting stuff out to save on buyers shipping costs I would put money on that would boost sales of the merch.
Look I just want to buy some merch and pay PB for the privelige of advertising for them, but in this next day instant free delivery gratification world we live in, shelling out more than the thing I'm buying to get it to me is ridiculous.
I just did a UPS rate calculator and for a 1lb package sent to the UK from Vancouver, with a $30 declared value, the cheapest rate was $146
Shipping in North America, is expensive.
Anyhow, we're not going to resolve this here, I've been on PB for nearly 20 years, I just wanted to buy the cool jersey they came out with but ending up at nearly £90 odd all in just isn't going to happen.
Sorry just not worth it.
Shipping $43.97
yeah...
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