Group buy FM Chassis brace (finished) Fitting day organised!

End User · Postby **End User** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:07 am

1. Mactype (Darryl) - Frame Rails
2. marcusus (Marcus) - Full Butterfly Brace
3. Sasso (Gerard) - Full Butterfly Brace
4. frigidity (Eric) - Full Butterfly Brace
5. SM (Alex) - Full Butterfly Brace
Room for one more?
6. End User (Tommy) - Full Butterfly Brace

Mactype · Postby **Mactype** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:18 am

End User wrote:1. Mactype (Darryl) - Full butterfly brace
2. marcusus (Marcus) - Full Butterfly Brace
3. Sasso (Gerard) - Full Butterfly Brace
4. frigidity (Eric) - Full Butterfly Brace
5. SM (Alex) - Full Butterfly Brace
Room for one more?
6. End User (Tommy) - Full Butterfly Brace

May as well bring the whole thing over even if I don't use it.

I'll contact FM and see if we can split the bill up and each forward separate C/C details, its quite an amount and I'm not too keen on collecting that amount of $$ myself. With regard to those worried about added duty payable I've allowed for an extra 10% in the worst case scenerio pricing, shouldn't happen but if it does we're covered.

Juffa · Postby **Juffa** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:22 pm

Here is an interesting post on the big forum from FM re their chassis rail brace/

http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.ph ... ost2985923

Might work on your favour.

J

bruce · Postby **bruce** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:01 pm

Mactype wrote:
bruce wrote:Why would duty not apply? Methinks more research is needed.

http://www.fta.gov.au/

Under the AUSFTA, trade in automotive parts and accessories between Australia and the United States became tariff free from 1 January 2005.

I believe AUSFTA relates to business trade.

Mactype · Postby **Mactype** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:47 pm

Thank you for your input Bruce

Alfadog · Postby **Alfadog** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:53 pm

1. Mactype (Darryl) - Frame Rails
2. marcusus (Marcus) - Full Butterfly Brace
3. Sasso (Gerard) - Full Butterfly Brace
4. frigidity (Eric) - Full Butterfly Brace
5. SM (Alex) - Full Butterfly Brace
6. End User (Tommy) - Full Butterfly Brace
7. Alfadog (Lachlan) - Full Butterfly Brace

FWIW Duty, GST and customs clearance fees will add up to more than 10%... still in though!

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:19 pm

Sasso wrote:You mean

Same diff.

As for the extra $30 off, it's worth asking about if people don't care about the logo or whatnot. I reckon it's worth saving $30 considering you won't ever see the damn thing. Hell, you could even pass it off as a limited release

Mactype · Postby **Mactype** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:52 pm

Alfadog wrote:1. Mactype (Darryl) - Frame Rails
2. marcusus (Marcus) - Full Butterfly Brace
3. Sasso (Gerard) - Full Butterfly Brace
4. frigidity (Eric) - Full Butterfly Brace
5. SM (Alex) - Full Butterfly Brace
6. End User (Tommy) - Full Butterfly Brace
7. Alfadog (Lachlan) - Full Butterfly Brace

FWIW Duty, GST and customs clearance fees will add up to more than 10%... still in though!

Notice Alfadog is in Melbourne, and Frididity doesn't show a location

At this point these will be delivered to my business address in Sydney, happy for people to either arrange a separate ship from FM to their area, else arrange for shipping to their location from Sydney. Its going to be a rather and heavy package it appears.

Customs clearance is definately included in the shipping quotation that I've been given by FM. For those perceiving dramas, the worst case scenerio I've applied of $600AU for the butterfly braces should cover at least 20% extra cost for any blowouts in dollars/duties/GST (although I still maintain we'll be ok for duty) - that is unless the $$ moves a lot (down 3Â¢ overnight, hope we get lucky). Soon as I get a reply from FM I suggest we get this going.

Alfadog · Postby **Alfadog** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:30 pm

I will lose out on the savings made on shipping costs but I think it might be easier if I just have mine sent directly to Melbourne? If that's possible with FM?

frigidity · Postby **frigidity** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:36 pm

oops.... forgot to put that in....

i'm also in sydney

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:58 pm

Mactype wrote:Soon as I get a reply from FM I suggest we get this going.

Cool. Once we have a final costs figure, I'll give you the all clear on my end. Just let us know and we'll be right to roll

Mactype · Postby **Mactype** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:13 pm

You have the worst case final costings Marcus, some stuff we can't lock down until it gets here - still waiting on FM to get back on payment terms. I might give them a call tomorrow morning if nothing is emailed to me.

I suggest we pay for FM's bill for the shipping and braces and then worry about the GST and the like when they get here. That will give those stretching for cash a few weeks to get some more $$ together.

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:24 pm

Righto. So we're saying $600 for a brace eh? Add in installation from mania and that puts it at $780 (I think... it was $180 from mania for install right?). That's still better than mania in the end, and it may well be cheaper.

Alright, I'm in. Who else is down? What're the next steps?

Mactype · Postby **Mactype** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:51 am

Just got off the phone to FM.

Appears they would prefer one payment for the goods and if we pay by c/c they also require a bank statement for verification. They suggest paypal might be easier for us. I'm a verified paypal user so thats not a problem but unfortunately will have to collect the cash from everyone.

I've emailed their shipping manager direct for a quote on shipping the 6 braces to Sydney and one brace to Melbourne.

They tell me they have them in stock, I also asked about the 2nd's that they have presently and was informed that we would not be able to get any further discount than the current sale price on these.

Sasso · Postby **Sasso** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:48 am

Mactype wrote:Just got off the phone to FM.

Appears they would prefer one payment for the goods and if we pay by c/c they also require a bank statement for verification. They suggest paypal might be easier for us. I'm a verified paypal user so thats not a problem but unfortunately will have to collect the cash from everyone.

I've emailed their shipping manager direct for a quote on shipping the 6 braces to Sydney and one brace to Melbourne.

They tell me they have them in stock, I also asked about the 2nd's that they have presently and was informed that we would not be able to get any further discount than the current sale price on these.

Sweet so we're getting the good ones at the rejects rates