• Bike Components in Germany have them in stock (according to their website)...95€ per chainset and 20€ postage....Due to Brexit (the gift that never gives) the minimum spend is 165€ before postage....So anyone interested in a possible group purchase? Sharing post...which would more than 20€ for >1 chainsets...plus potentially, being hit for VAT, import duty and handling charges.

    Open for discussion.

  • Is import duty/ handling still a thing?

  • I think so but it is somewhat hit or miss....I can contact the bike shop and see if the 95€ includes German VAT or not.

  • 95€=£81

  • This is really strange, as I’ve ordered a lot from other Germany based retailers and my understanding was that they wouldn’t take an order over €165 because of the brexit bullshit bollocks and that anything under was fine and wasn’t subject to import / duty / etc….

  • I thought so too but here is the evidence…from ‘my’ shopping cart that for some reason states…165€ is the minimum order they will accept for items destined for the UK….hence the idea for a group purchase…as the 10 speed GRX 46/30 chainset in the 165mm length is impossible to get in the UK at the moment…I thought there would be some interest but sadly nothing.


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  • Perhaps I will buy two and sell one either here or on eBay for the price I pay including any taxes and a share of the postage.

  • There are two different special procedures for international orders depending on whether it's above or below the threshold. Retailers are free to decide they can't be arsed with one, the other or both.

  • I thought below the threshold and you paid the VAT…above you don’t but I might be wrong and happy to be corrected.

  • Some bike shops in Germany won’t trade with the UK…Because of the Brexit red tape.

  • Below the threshold an overseas retailer is meant to charge UK VAT and figure out how to get it to the exchequer, which is why many CBA.

  • So above the threshold...the price should be reduced to take out German VAT in preparation for being hit by UK VAT and import duty etc...Is that correct?

  • . Doh!

  • Something like that, yes.

  • Praxis only do BSA... don't do Italian ..I will send you a pm...be easier.

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Group buy: Shimano GRX 46/30 10s 165mm from Germany

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