therealche wrote:Not personally being the wrong side of the pond, but they have a good reputation. Their website seems to be kaput at the moment, but last time I looked they try to source things from Germany, then Europe and then as a last resort from the far east
Apart from the usual suspects in Europe there is a company in Turkey with very keen prices. ( The 2 stroke MZ plant was sold to Turkey in 1989 and they contuned production for some time)
http://www.mzparcalari.com
Can I write a rewiew please, maybe helpful - my (single) experience with mzparcalari.com.
I just received a package.
Quality:
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Quality of the stuff I received - average, let's say so. Some plastic seem just the cheap China stuff, some others look good and dependable. One "010" ETZ250 selector fork was Taiwan-made, the "011" fork is Turkey. The items are not fully described on the site so it's matter of luck. I wrote reviews to almost all components I bought on the site, I'm curious if the webmaster approves any. There are no other reviews. As a general rule regarding quality - those stuff which are ment for the internal turkish production models Seyhan, ET301 Kanuni - those are good quality. There are some turkey-made rear shock absorbers, don't buy them, they are cheap copies of the german originals, however the Kanuni originals are made by MONROE, so my general rule still stays. You can find them only here, not on german sites, hungarian sites. The other stuff that you can see also on hungarian/german sites - those are average quality on mzparcalari.com. Use your common sense, check the price, add the extra custom taxes if apply and see if it still fits you.
Price:
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I paid +VAT 19% and + customs 4.5% so it was not so cheap really. But this is easy to calculate so everybody should calculate for himself if it's cheap or expensive.
PayPal:
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It's written that you pay by PayPal - it did not appear PayPal for me, I paid with Visa 3D-secure. This was ok for me.
Shipping:
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If you check the site, nothing is stated there except it's fast. There are some pictures with some delivery boxcars that look like DHL vans. Well, it's not DHL. mzparcalari.com ships over PTT (Turkish Post) that has same yellow color like DHL. (surprise, I saw this only when I got the tracking number)
Was shipping cheap? Certaily not. 40 Euro was the price for the "fast delivery" for 10kg of components. I paid less for quick DHL delivery from Germany.
Was it fast? PTT is just a normal post of Turkey, and obviously the package will be handed over to the national post of your country. Check how fast will be for you. For me in Romania, the shipping was 13 days, see yourself
https://track.aftership.com/ptt-posta/cp030882729tr? or
https://www.17track.net/ro/track?nums=CP030882729TR&fc=18021What was fast: the guys from the site packaged and sent the package the same day I ordered it.
Was it right? The site added the weight of the componets to 14.9kg, so I paid for that (40EUR) but the Turkish post stamped on the box 10.00kg. The things were poorly/not packaged inside, so one taillight was damaged by shipping.
Would I order again? Maybe, but only the things that are available only on this site, and I will try to order small packages, at least I will not pay the full VAT. The things that I can find on hungarian sites(motoralkatresz24.hu)/german sites (ost2rad, mzsimson.de) I will order from there.
This is my review - good or bad, judge for yourself