New Bikes for £26

FiFi_Mad_Mum

Mandles wrote: »

I just got this too except it says "Looking at your order the bikes you've receive retail over £100 "brand new" of course. However as a good will gesture on this occasion what we are willing do is send out the spares parts at half the price plus carriage. " so not so great as handlebars ..how much are they?"

If you look at their spare parts page carriage is charged at P & P for each item, be carefull you don't get ripped off again and they don't do spare handlebars!
FiFi

tincat

Hi all,

Am sorry and even feeling a bit guilty that a few of you have had duds. It looks like I won the bike lottery as the bike was complete and in v. g. condition. . I'm not used to winning much:p

I really hope that many more people have got useable bikes than not. If you think about it, they had 2000 bikes, lets guess 700 of those were adult bikes - and there have been around 10 people on here who have had total rubbish from them.

Lets just hope that the other 690 bikes were in v. good and rideable condition. They did say it was a bit of a lottery.

Also it's nice to hear that they're sending out replacements for the bikes that arrived sans handlebars and major parts of the bike. I would have been so disappointed if I'd received that, and probably wouldn't have contacted them again to complain as I would have considered I'd 'lost' the lottery.

marvin

Mandles wrote: »

Well, my sabre pink ladies bike has just arrived. It does not look very used but a bit gutted as although it looks nice it has ;
no handle bars
no chain
no pedals
bo bits that the pedals attach to
and all the gears and all that stuff.
no bolts etc
so i have recieved a frame and 2 wheels!!
Any ideas aprox how much this lot will set me back?

Well had a good look at mine now and priced up the bits required

OK
No gears
No chain
No breaks
No pedals
damaged saddle, damaged cables

This machine has so clearly been cannibalised for spares its un believable, not even enough on it for me to break for spares (except maybe the two wheels). Total cost to replace the missing bits, from decent bike retailer/repairer £90 - £120 (depending on the quality of parts) This could never be described, in the condition it is in as a "serviceable" bike!

One word of warning for those buing spare parts from this lot just make sure they are new and not the bits nicked off all the dud bikes they sell.

CB1979_2

cannot believe you lot aren't kicking up a fuss about this!

!!!!!! you've been sold big paper weights/death traps for £25!

don't care if they have a disclaimer "lucky dip" get to f*ck, sounds like you've been given bikes that have been dropped off by the local smackheads.

also the reason why they probably have offered free p&p to some is that for every 100 sold it appears 99% of you accept it "it was worth a punt" and haven't complained.

complete jokers

ps not saying these bikes are nicked, but a disgrace to mislead in that way.

CHR15

Surely everone knew they were just selling the old "trade ins" they took against new bikes.

you know when Comet say they will take away your old washing machine,

or DFS saying you can have £100 trade in on your old Sofa "whatever the condition"

these places end up with warehouses full of scrap iron and furniture.

Surely no-one actually thought decent bikes were being sold for 99p ??!

MAXMAX_3

CHR15 wrote: »

Surely everone knew they were just selling the old "trade ins" they took against new bikes.

you know when Comet say they will take away your old washing machine,

or DFS saying you can have £100 trade in on your old Sofa "whatever the condition"

these places end up with warehouses full of scrap iron and furniture.

Surely no-one actually thought decent bikes were being sold for 99p ??!

Well if you bother to look through the thread then a number of people have been sold decent/reasonable bikes.

CHR15

I expect there are some good traded in sofas too amongst a thousand items of scrap.

alanwarwic

the key word in the description was always 'There may be some parts missing'.

As guaranteed new bikes can always be had for £50 you were always taking a very risky 50/50 risk (£26 gamble against £50 no gamble).

I imagine they bade £5 to £10 profit assuming they profit on the postage costs.
The refund offer also meas that you only get £1 back!!!!!
At a cost of another £20 to return.
This was ominous in itself.

CHR15

From another Forum (thanks to tk421)

They were right about a couple of parts missing!!!

marvin

Right some of us are kicking up a fuss
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This shouldn't have left the warehouse, this was a warehouse error. We will refund the money back into your account today
Kind regards
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Now I have emailed back asking if this is the whole amount debited or just the 99p

The gamble is as some say a bike or a new bike for £50 (as a chap I know in a bike shop would say, it may look like a bike for £50 but its not really!). The gamble was really £50 (for putting right any faults on it) + purchase price for a bike that is valued a good deal more. The bike I received, if it was in new condition with all its bits, would retail for between £175 and £200. Now if my gamble had worked and I got a bike that could be fixed for minimal amount (as the blurb on the website intimates) then I would have indeed been happy. For some (tincat) this gamble has paid off big style, but like those dodgy fruit machines in pubs the winners are vastly outweighed by the losers and the only real winners are the machine owners. Unipack who won all round they have got us to pay their disposal costs, beats hiring a big Biffa Bin!

In the words of messers Gabriel, Banks, Collins, Rutherford, and Hacket "gambling only pays when you're winning"