Interest in bonnet liners - possible Group Buy
Posted: Thu 14.04.2016, 17:25This is to gauge interest only - no commitment to buy
I have been looking at bonnet liners (hood liners for our colonial friends
) and have made contact with a supplier in the US.
Elanlover has one of these fitted and you can read his opinion here.
The supplier has offered us the 1/2" liner (in any colour you like as long as it is grey) together with a logo in a colour of your choice (red, white, yellow, blue or gold). As long as we order a minimum of 10 sets in one go, they will offer us a collective price of $73 each. Their retail price for this is $104 plus delivery.
I'm afraid that the delivery to the UK is quite steep ($105 for 10 sets), but sharing that cost amongst us means we can save quite a bit. As always, we may or may not get stung for VAT and import duty which will add (I believe) 24.5%.
If you purchased this yourself as a one off, it would cost you a total of £142 if stung for the VAT/duty and £114 if not.
Doing all the maths (and you are welcome to check my workings) and given that exchange rates fluctuate means that the cost will be ~£75 if we get 10 names. There is a tiny bit of 'padding' in that number, but given that the exchange rate advertised is never what you actually get, it is going to be pretty close.
This is a UK only offer, I'm afraid and (in the interests of full disclosure) if I take delivery of the order (and it doesn't have to be me) then it will only be on a collect and/or onward delivery via the LEC network basis; I just don't have time to repackage and post 9+ sets and I don't want anyone moaning at me that it didn't arrive yesterday. If someone else wants to volunteer to take delivery and then send them out then that would be great but the UK delivery cost is not included in anything detailed above.
I am sure if there were 10 US/Canada interested parties, then the supplier would extend the same pricing and delivery will be a darn sight cheaper
You will however have to organise your own list!
Right; having said all that, if there are 10 interested UK parties, then we can go ahead and I will turn this into a 'commit to buy' thread, but if not, we can knock it on the head.
List time! (feels like a while since we had a list...
)
1. maz_r
I have been looking at bonnet liners (hood liners for our colonial friends
) and have made contact with a supplier in the US.Elanlover has one of these fitted and you can read his opinion here.
The supplier has offered us the 1/2" liner (in any colour you like as long as it is grey) together with a logo in a colour of your choice (red, white, yellow, blue or gold). As long as we order a minimum of 10 sets in one go, they will offer us a collective price of $73 each. Their retail price for this is $104 plus delivery.
I'm afraid that the delivery to the UK is quite steep ($105 for 10 sets), but sharing that cost amongst us means we can save quite a bit. As always, we may or may not get stung for VAT and import duty which will add (I believe) 24.5%.
If you purchased this yourself as a one off, it would cost you a total of £142 if stung for the VAT/duty and £114 if not.
Doing all the maths (and you are welcome to check my workings) and given that exchange rates fluctuate means that the cost will be ~£75 if we get 10 names. There is a tiny bit of 'padding' in that number, but given that the exchange rate advertised is never what you actually get, it is going to be pretty close.
This is a UK only offer, I'm afraid and (in the interests of full disclosure) if I take delivery of the order (and it doesn't have to be me) then it will only be on a collect and/or onward delivery via the LEC network basis; I just don't have time to repackage and post 9+ sets and I don't want anyone moaning at me that it didn't arrive yesterday. If someone else wants to volunteer to take delivery and then send them out then that would be great but the UK delivery cost is not included in anything detailed above.
I am sure if there were 10 US/Canada interested parties, then the supplier would extend the same pricing and delivery will be a darn sight cheaper
You will however have to organise your own list!Right; having said all that, if there are 10 interested UK parties, then we can go ahead and I will turn this into a 'commit to buy' thread, but if not, we can knock it on the head.
List time! (feels like a while since we had a list...
)1. maz_r
