IBD or EBay Stores

claret73

How many of you support your Local Bike Shop or buy from Mail Order or EBay stores?

The Northern Monkey

no "all" option?

RevellRider

LBS. I have only ordered a handful of things online, and that was only stuff none of my local shops could get hold of.

mossmotorsport

I also use all three depending on what I am after. If the price is significantly cheaper online, then often I will try my LBS who often price match.

bill_gates

mossmotorsport wrote:

I also use all three depending on what I am after. If the price is significantly cheaper online, then often I will try my LBS who often price match.

I'm the same for not only bike products but most items I spent my hard-earned on. I was in WH SMith today looking for Bradley Wiggins book but they want £15 for it whereas I can get it from online for 2/3 of that. If it was a small local bookshop then I would not mind paying the extra £5 but WHSmith are a national chain of shops and need to be more competitive.

I support local business as much as I can but not when it's a major price-difference.

piker

I have found mail order to be cheapest 9/10 times.

allthegearnoidea

all 3 for mee too, but mainly lbs, ebay for cheap spares like spare seatposts etc,

Northwind

Both, but mainly mail order. The Bike Chain are local to me and they have a competetive retail op in their bricks and mortar store, so I'll use them over mail order but most of the LBSs have poor stock and terrible pricing. If I need spannering done I go to a shop that only really does spannering anyway.

cooldad

Why do you want to know?

omegas

Use all 3