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ej2320
ej2320 Posts: 1,543
edited August 2013 in MTB buying advice
Does anyone know of some less talked about EU online mtb sites that have good prices on components?

I know about the big UK, French and German sites but can you suggest any cheap websites that are more unknown and don't tend to come up on search results

Thanks

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  • jairaj
    jairaj Posts: 3,009
    I some times do a search on google.de (ie Germany's google wepage) which returns different results to using google.co.uk
  • ej2320
    ej2320 Posts: 1,543
    Ahhh yea, good idea. Most have an English version of the page
  • jairaj
    jairaj Posts: 3,009
    or use Goggle translate which can covert web pages. Usually does a decent job. It can falter on some of the biking jargon but its usually easy to figure out what they are trying to say
  • ej2320
    ej2320 Posts: 1,543
    ok, I'll try that.. I use chrome which detects and translates for me anyway :)

    For the German sites, if there was an issue would they understand an English email?

    Also, I'm never quite sure on this, the get the price in pounds can I just put it in a conversion website or is it more complicated than that when buying in Euros....? I ask you because I'm guessing you've bought some stuff from German sites before.. correct me is I'm wrong
  • mac-cos
    mac-cos Posts: 80
    ej2320 wrote:
    ok, I'll try that.. I use chrome which detects and translates for me anyway :)

    For the German sites, if there was an issue would they understand an English email?

    Also, I'm never quite sure on this, the get the price in pounds can I just put it in a conversion website or is it more complicated than that when buying in Euros....? I ask you because I'm guessing you've bought some stuff from German sites before.. correct me is I'm wrong
    From my experience most Germans can speak /use english netter than most of the peops in the UK. Just ordered some tyres of one of the DE sites and emailed them due to a fekup in shipping address and they responded fine to my english email.
    Norco Aurum 3 viewtopic.php?f=10017&t=12939531
  • ej2320
    ej2320 Posts: 1,543
    Mac-cos wrote:
    ej2320 wrote:
    ok, I'll try that.. I use chrome which detects and translates for me anyway :)

    For the German sites, if there was an issue would they understand an English email?

    Also, I'm never quite sure on this, the get the price in pounds can I just put it in a conversion website or is it more complicated than that when buying in Euros....? I ask you because I'm guessing you've bought some stuff from German sites before.. correct me is I'm wrong
    From my experience most Germans can speak /use english netter than most of the peops in the UK. Just ordered some tyres of one of the DE sites and emailed them due to a fekup in shipping address and they responded fine to my english email.

    I wasn't dismissing their ability to speak English and totally agree they speak it better than most of us!
    It's just some sites don't give a translate option so was curious..

    That's good to hear, about the price, did the conversion of the euro to pounds just follow the standard exchange rate?
  • jairaj
    jairaj Posts: 3,009
    I've only browsed the non english websites not actually bought or had to contact the shop about anything. I would just put email them in English with a goggle translated copy below it.

    As for the currency conversion, the converted Pounds price on the webiste was very similar with the going exchange rate at the time, so I went with that. I didn't want to pay in Euros only for my bank to charge me some other silly rate or other fees.
  • mac-cos
    mac-cos Posts: 80
    ej2320 wrote:
    Mac-cos wrote:
    ej2320 wrote:
    ok, I'll try that.. I use chrome which detects and translates for me anyway :)

    For the German sites, if there was an issue would they understand an English email?

    Also, I'm never quite sure on this, the get the price in pounds can I just put it in a conversion website or is it more complicated than that when buying in Euros....? I ask you because I'm guessing you've bought some stuff from German sites before.. correct me is I'm wrong
    From my experience most Germans can speak /use english netter than most of the peops in the UK. Just ordered some tyres of one of the DE sites and emailed them due to a fekup in shipping address and they responded fine to my english email.

    I wasn't dismissing their ability to speak English and totally agree they speak it better than most of us!
    It's just some sites don't give a translate option so was curious..

    That's good to hear, about the price, did the conversion of the euro to pounds just follow the standard exchange rate?
    I didnt calculate the exchange rate given, mainly as it was still shedloads cheaper than any UK sites I'd checked out .
    Norco Aurum 3 viewtopic.php?f=10017&t=12939531

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