https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/v...t=20&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=lares theres 31 pages ...
Order placed. Exchange rate is a little out compared to Revolut so its a total of £236.69 fluctuating exchange rate and all...
My paypal email address is ian_bell@rocketmail.com if you could send a friends and family payment of £23.67 to there please if I have missed end a message to you. Hopefully a few will be ok with pickup at techenders. I expect internal postage will be a couple of quid at small parcel rate but will sort once they arrive and I know box size/weight...
Cheers Ian, I'll get the money over to you later today. Once you get them and work out postage let me know and I'll send that too, unfortunately I can't make the next TE.
Already showing an estimated eelivery of next Thursday, it was tempting to say if it arrives by then I'll eat it...
I agree, Ian I'm still waiting for a spark plug from Germany purchased on the 19th arrived Heathrow on the 21st Royal snail extract the urine. Sent from my SM-G981B using Tapatalk
I’m still waiting for a delivery ordered on 14th October and shipped via Evri, I had a message from Evri on 21st October saying it would be delayed – nothing since. Royal Mail made a delivery through storm Babet sent 2nd class 18th October and received 23rd October.
It's not necessarily the courier's though. UK customs is a nightmare. It's always been the case from the US but now with increased traffic from Europe having to go through the bonded warehouses you can only imagine the carnage behind the scenes. It's amazing anything gets delivered to be honest. Some companies, like Autodoc and it appears the one Ian is dealing with, include VAT at source so the govt get their pound of flesh without having to chase purchaser's in this country. Goods value over 135 sterling are charged tax from the USA. Thank goodness it's FedEx. UPS usually send me a letter, yep letter, from Holland telling me stuff has landed at East Midlands Airport which is 4 miles away. Crazy
And thank gawd we're not in the states using ups internally. I was reading about a geezer that bought a $15k keyboard, it arrived at the local ups then disappeared. They basically just blanked him. several months later he got a call from the local Nissan dealer 20 miles away saying they had his package. That dealer had tried to get ups to pick it up and deliver it to the correct clearly marked address. UPS refused point blank, even though they visited the Nissan showroom many times in between and it was totally their error. A happy ending but only due to the honesty and sleuth work of the Nissan dealership manager finding his contact details.
And apparently the UPS long haul drivers in the USA earn $170k .. - because the Teamsters are so strong in the USA, UPS is going to have to start laying off their freight pilots to pay for their truck drivers.
They've 'lost' 2 syncro gearboxes in the last 2 years! Not mine but then again I refuse to use them. Both of them rebuilt and on their way back to customers. Not good for my buddy who had not only to deal with fraught customers and replace initially at his cost, but also drew blanks from his UPS rep in Ireland...nightmare
It seems likely that with large heavy high value things getting "lost" UPS have an internal crime problem they just accept and leave to insurance to sort out. After all, they're making their wodge, why waste resources helping customers.
The American date confused me 11/2/23 For a second there I thought I was ahead of schedule by several months.
