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Who is your go-to parts supplier?
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Who is your go-to parts supplier?
Website pros/cons?
What other things you like about them - knowledge level, customer service ability, speed to ship, price ? Other things?
I look forward to your responses
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I would concur but with the caveat that Motoworks has limited supply of pre-71 parts. Meyers has always been good and has reasonable shipping. Ulis has standard flat rate shipping which can be expensive if only ordering a few items. I've used Stemler BMW too but their ordering process is not a simple procedure and lately their stock is problematic. Prices are among the lowest though.
Kevin
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I have good luck with Ulis until I don't. Their catalog is a collection of both good and bad quality parts. When I have received inferior parts, they have never stood behind them and mostly don't even respond to emails to the affect. Their shipping rates and speed is pretty good especially when compared to the current rates being charged by Salis. Salis has consistently better parts from what I can tell and much better customer support. But the price of shipping, UPS brokerage fees and international credit cards fees have recently given me pause to place any further orders. My last order from Salis carried a UPS shipping fee of $266 Euros or $286USD. UPS charged me another $88USD in brokerage fees and my VISA card charged me another $109USD in foreign transaction fees which is a new one for me. I was forced to use a backup CC as my primary card which I've always used with Ulis etc would not be accepted by Salis' processor. So this issue cost me over $100. So total delivery for that order came to $483USD and that is more than I've paid cumulatively for the last 6 orders from Ulis. This was not a refrigerator box either but it was a larger order and rather heavy. For comparison I ordered 2 full stainless R69S exhaust systems from Keihan last year and paid about half this price total for delivery. I get that we're busy here building back better and everything has doubled in price but it's hard to justify the benefit of going to direct as it seems the savings are drying up fast.
No one said this was a cheap hobby and it certainly isn't getting any cheaper.
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Salis now uses DHL instead of UPS due to the high fees sometimes incurred by UPS.Slash2 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:45 amBut the price of shipping, UPS brokerage fees and international credit cards fees have recently given me pause to place any further orders. My last order from Salis carried a UPS shipping fee of $266 Euros or $286USD. UPS charged me another $88USD in brokerage fees...
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