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2/6/2015 3:32pm
2/6/2015 3:32pm
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2/6/2016 2:43am
Well after reading countless reviews on OEMcycle.com I decided to order some common parts from them, just to try them out. I ordered bearings and some other misc stuff. I ordered my stuff on Tuesday and was approved within 20 mintutes. The site says "May take 1-2 days to ship" when the items were placed In the cart unless it says otherwise. Now on Friday my package finally shipped. Not too happy. Plus my estimated delivery date was the 9th, now it's the 13th. I paid the extra 3 bucks for standard shipping, which is 1-5 business days. I'm not upset about the delivery date. I'm upset that my order was "processing" for 4 days then finally ships. That's double the time that they said. Great prices on the site, but will never order again because it took 4 days to finally ship some common parts that any shop would carry. Don't mean to be a debby downer but I should of paid the extra 20 bucks and bought my parts from Rockymountain...
Fast, Good, and Cheap.
You can pick any two.
Obviously, the shipping was pretty high as the pieces were oversize. I ordered them. The final bill was 34.00 less than quoted. Inside was a noet that said, "We shipped them for less, hope you are ok with that."
Their prices are always good. I dont know if they are the lowest, but plenty good enough.
The Shop
Even Partzilla drop ships. You order and if you're lucky they have that little 6mm bolt in their own small warehouse, but 90% of what I order for my 89 kx restoration ends up coming from Atlanta or the midwest. I live in Atlanta so you'd think I could just waltz in and pick it up local. Nope. It is shipped from Atlanta to Partzilla in south GA, then back to me in Atlanta.
Never trust any "availability" from these drop shippers, they don't know with certainty what they have and they don't care if their web listings are out of date - it just brings more business to them leaving NLA parts as available on their websites.
The one site I trust as far as availability goes is cmsl.
Not meaning to bash the company because I'm not the most important person in the world, but more of disappointment.
I expected a little bit more from them but I'm used to shopping from rockymountain to where stuff is shipped within 1 day (if it's not oem parts.)
You must have some really good shops in your area because there is no such thing where I am at. Sounds like OEM did pretty good.
To the owner of oemcycles, you may have lost a customer today, but you just gained another. I'll be happy to take his place.
Pit Row
So I was riding at a local track on a Sunday when I had a crank bearing seize. This was the weekend before unadilla, we always go up for the pro weekend and race am day. We leave Thursday afternoon so that left me just a few days to fix it, and since I already signed up for classes I was dead set on racing. Stripped everything down and figured out everything I needed to buy. I found a complete crank off there eBay site for cheap but wanted to call to make the order. Called Tuesday morning, I had a crank, timing chain and gaskets overnighted to me. Got the package the next day and had a mad dash to put everything back together. Few hours later had the bike back together and loaded up the trailer. Had a goodnight sleep after that crazy week.
I wouldn't want a guy like you coming into my shop if I knew you would rather shop online than support the local shops.
Go shop online. And then come back online to complain about it.
Seems like thats how it should go.
I went to a huge dealership downstate IL. I think the building is an old WalMart store. They must have 500 vehicles in stock. They are Kawasaki and KTM. I gave them the EBC part number for a KTM front brake pad, they just stared at me. After 10 minutes of looking up the KTM part number, the told me they could order it. And people wonder why RockyMTN ATV is as big as they are.
AJAX Kawaski in OKC, they do it right, or they did 10 years ago when I lived there. They had your high wear items in stock at decent prices.
My advice, if you race or ride a lot, have your high wear items in stock in your garage.
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