Thread: Postal costs on orders from UK

For what it's worth, I've bought small parts from this outfit and found them relliable and competitive. Their shipping costs to Australia seem reasonable too.

wapsipurtlandrover - Leading Specialist in Online Sales of Land Rover Parts and Accessories Worldwide

I tried ordering a camshaft from a cam company in the UK and two weeks later, when they finally replied, the freight was 98GBP . . . so I don't think they were trying too hard.

I just test out a new company with a few small orders and go from there. Once I can trust them, they will make a lot of money from me in the long run! So I don't tend to make a big order with someone new, freight charges being one reason for this.

I have found Rimmer Brothers - Triumph Car Parts, MG Rover Car Parts, and Land Rover Car Parts and Spares to have very reasonable air mail rates, for lighter items at least. Although items usually take 10+ days to get here.

Originally Posted by drifter

I won't 'name and shame' - Dave doesn't like it. When searching for items from Malaysia on eBay I search www.ebay.com.my

I understand the name and shame rules. I should have been more specific. I was interested in the last company that you were happy with.

Dave.

Originally Posted by Mr Whippy

I understand the name and shame rules. I should have been more specific. I was interested in the last company that you were happy with.

Dave.

In the UK? Wapispurt JohnRichardsSurplus and DLS are OK in my book. In Malaysia they tend to be individuals, not businesses, but I found that to be pretty much the case when I lived there, too. There is a guy who sells TEX spares who is great (qualtrough2004 - oops - he is in Thailand). I am trying to find the guy I got my vent and other rubbers from - he was excellent (and cheap).

for smaller item orders I find Brit-Car in UK quite good for postage.

I just received some door card fasteners, door hinge shims, door seals and bonnet hinge for £13.46 postage and it arrived in under 5 days. Some UK ebay items do good postage to auz also.

Australia needs some proper competitive online stores for land rover parts. I get tired of having to call/email around only to be given delivered to door prices that are significantly higher than UK. I must admit that recently, in most cases I have just been going straight to the UK sites.

I used a mob called Transglobal express International Courier | Air Freight | Shipping | Excess Baggage | Freight forwarders and they charged 29GBP to deliver a P38 cooler. They used DHL but get much better rates than the average punter can. In this case I gave them the info via email and they sent the commercial invoices etc to the pickup address and a courier pick up a couple of days later. The seller wanted over 100GBP to ship so it worked out much cheaper to organise the pickup myself.

Transglobal did send me a mail a few months back saying DHL had significantly
raised there prices in 2012 so they now also use UPS and TNT.
Cheers
Mark

Just got all my new fromt end brake parts from the UK for the L322. Parts were 104 quid and delivery was about the same - 28Kg Air Freight. Got the parts on my doorstep 4 days after order (Including a weekend) and saved over AUD $450 on what I could get the same parts for locally. Pretty happy with that...