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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
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 Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject: Shipping a Bicycle |
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| Has anyone here had their bicycle shipped to Korea from overseas? I wanted to start riding here--and was thinking of purchasing here, but the markups are roughly 100% over the cost of a bike back home (double the price). |
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chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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You will have to ship it by freight (would have been better to check it as baggage on your flight over). You will then have to get it cleared through customs by hiring a custom's broker and pay the import duty.
It's too big to ship USPS or Canadian whatever you guys call it as well as Fedex and DHL. |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| chiaa wrote: |
You will have to ship it by freight (would have been better to check it as baggage on your flight over). You will then have to get it cleared through customs by hiring a custom's broker and pay the import duty.
It's too big to ship USPS or Canadian whatever you guys call it as well as Fedex and DHL. |
Even if my bike back home is used? |
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chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| JeJuJitsu wrote: |
| chiaa wrote: |
You will have to ship it by freight (would have been better to check it as baggage on your flight over). You will then have to get it cleared through customs by hiring a custom's broker and pay the import duty.
It's too big to ship USPS or Canadian whatever you guys call it as well as Fedex and DHL. |
Even if my bike back home is used? |
Don't know if you will have to pay duty if it is used, but you will have to pay a custom's broker to get it through customs. Looking at 50.000 just for that. |
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thursdays child
Joined: 21 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 4:22 am Post subject: |
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no experiences about shipping a bike over... (I brought mine on the plane with me).... but it was damn difficult shipping it back.
but depends where you're from I guess?? I'm a NZer - who are hyper, super, crazily yet understandbly strict about contamination. Anyway my bike was quarantined and cost a bundle to get it out of Korea. |
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dulouz
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus
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| Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 4:44 am Post subject: |
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| Yea I went through that. The bikes here are crap. It'd cost me $300 to have it sent here (USA-SK) just for the shipping. |
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 5:33 am Post subject: |
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By far the best thing to do is just bring it with you.
However, since you're already here and tickets back home cost as much as a bike back home, you sorta exhausted that option (however, if you bought an 1800$ bike in Canada and were looking at spending 2x that to get the same bike here, you could actually fly home for vacation, buy the bike and bring it for the same cost and you get a free trip home...)
I was going to have a windtrainer shipped from Excelsports.com, but the shipping fee on that is like 200$ (same as the cost of the trainer.) And yeah there will be a tarriff imposed on the bike too....
You can try these guys... said to have cheap shipping:
http://www.trisports.com/
Otherwise, you could ask around; maybe someone here is trying to sell one. |
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