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How do PBK do it? Ordered 20/4/07, arrived
24/4/07. Do they have some special deal to
get the blue parcels special priority? How
come the other UK shops can't match this?
DeF
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On Apr 24, 10:57 am, DeF <""d.farrow\"@your finger.murdoch.edu.au">
Quoted message said:How do PBK do it? Ordered 20/4/07, arrived
24/4/07. Do they have some special deal to
get the blue parcels special priority? How
come the other UK shops can't match this?DeF
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Took longer for a set of bib's to come to Rockingham, (Western
Australia) from Melbourne.
Nice work on their behalf!!
Brendo
Brendo said:On Apr 24, 10:57 am, DeF <""d.farrow\"@your finger.murdoch.edu.au">
Quoted message said:How do PBK do it? Ordered 20/4/07, arrived
24/4/07. Do they have some special deal to
get the blue parcels special priority? How
come the other UK shops can't match this?DeF
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To reply, you'll have to remove your finger.Took longer for a set of bib's to come to Rockingham, (Western
Australia) from Melbourne.Nice work on their behalf!!
Brendo
I ordered from PBK Tuesday last week and had the goods on Friday. A
friend ordered the Thursday before Good Friday and had the goods the
following Tuesday! Over the Easter weekend!! They are fantastic.
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DeF said:How do PBK do it? Ordered 20/4/07, arrived
24/4/07. Do they have some special deal to
get the blue parcels special priority? How
come the other UK shops can't match this?DeF
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They use a facillitation service... (I'm told) and that same service is used by a few others too, it just means that PBK's accounting system clears payments a bit quicker OR they accept a higher level of fraud in the mix and processing time is reduced.
generally delay is caused not by postage but by processing of payment clearance to minimise fraud ( which is rife thanks to Korea, Nigeria , some from China and a few other places closer to home).
talk to the guys who run on line shops you will be horrified at the rorts that are tried by buyers with stolen CC details or imaginery ID's.
DeF said:How come the other UK shops can't match this?
My guesses only here... (with a general view of PBK as a whole)..
PBK are simply on top of their game. A warehouse full of goodies and streamlined process.... Interweebians simply place their orders through the website which is linked real-time to their _actual_ inventory - all they have to do is throw it in a bag and send it off. I'm sure they've got a nice deal with the postal service given their volumes. Their IT systems would be interesting - I wonder if they've outsourced it, or have someone in house who is running that show... whichever way, it works damn well.
No shop front, no servicing shi**er bikes, no having to spend hours with a customer who is looking to fork out as little as possible on their first bike, etc^2.
While email has killed of the 'letter'. PBK, T7, eBay, etc have all created quite a market for package delivery! I would have taken more notice of my uni lecturer saying transport is going to be _the_ business to be in once Internet shopping comes of age... but it was his other theories that it would completely replace the standard retail industry that got me questioning his wackyness. He liked to see himself as a technology visionary, who wore a skivvy. OT now... 'nuf said. 🙂
rooman said:DeF said:How do PBK do it? Ordered 20/4/07, arrived
24/4/07. Do they have some special deal to
get the blue parcels special priority? How
come the other UK shops can't match this?DeF
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They use a facillitation service... (I'm told) and that same service is
used by a few others too, it just means that PBK's accounting system
clears payments a bit quicker OR they accept a higher level of fraud in
the mix and processing time is reduced.generally delay is caused not by postage but by processing of payment
clearance to minimise fraud ( which is rife thanks to Korea, Nigeria ,
some from China and a few other places closer to home).talk to the guys who run on line shops you will be horrified at the
rorts that are tried by buyers with stolen CC details or imaginery
ID's.
Yes, well I can vouch for that. I've had two credit cards skimmed
whilst overseas (Malaysia). It only came to light when I saw purchases
on the statement that weren't me. There was several thousand dollars
on Porsche car parts from a US site, one for several hundred for
mobile phone access in Canada and one for a pr0n subscription. I got
all the money back.
No jokes about hanging on to the pr0n subscription please - that's
shooting fish in a barrel.
DeF.
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On Apr 24, 2:08 pm, DeF <""d.farrow\"@your finger.murdoch.edu.au">
Quoted message said:rooman said:DeF said:How do PBK do it? Ordered 20/4/07, arrived
24/4/07. Do they have some special deal to
get the blue parcels special priority? How
come the other UK shops can't match this?Quoted message said:Quoted message said:DeF
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They use a facillitation service... (I'm told) and that same service is
used by a few others too, it just means that PBK's accounting system
clears payments a bit quicker OR they accept a higher level of fraud in
the mix and processing time is reduced.Quoted message said:generally delay is caused not by postage but by processing of payment
clearance to minimise fraud ( which is rife thanks to Korea, Nigeria ,
some from China and a few other places closer to home).Quoted message said:talk to the guys who run on line shops you will be horrified at the
rorts that are tried by buyers with stolen CC details or imaginery
ID's.Yes, well I can vouch for that. I've had two credit cards skimmed
whilst overseas (Malaysia). It only came to light when I saw purchases
on the statement that weren't me. There was several thousand dollars
on Porsche car parts from a US site, one for several hundred for
mobile phone access in Canada and one for a pr0n subscription. I got
all the money back.No jokes about hanging on to the pr0n subscription please - that's
shooting fish in a barrel.
Did you get to keep the FF points? 🙂
A mate of mine got skimmed somewhere in Europe, and they ran up 50k on
it before he got back. Got the funds returned, but he got to keep all
the FF points, so he got a free holiday out of it.
Quoted message said:
No jokes about hanging on to the pr0n subscription please - that's
shooting fish in a barrel.DeF.
No worries Def, if I got caught with the pr0n subscription, I'd claim it
wasn't mine too.
<g>
CN
Bleve said:On Apr 24, 2:08 pm, DeF <""d.farrow\"@your finger.murdoch.edu.au">
Quoted message said:rooman said:DeF Wrote:
> How do PBK do it? Ordered 20/4/07, arrived
> 24/4/07. Do they have some special deal to
> get the blue parcels special priority? How
> come the other UK shops can't match this?
> DeF
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> e-mail: d.farrow@your finger.murdoch.edu.au
> To reply, you'll have to remove your finger.
They use a facillitation service... (I'm told) and that same service is
used by a few others too, it just means that PBK's accounting system
clears payments a bit quicker OR they accept a higher level of fraud in
the mix and processing time is reduced.
generally delay is caused not by postage but by processing of payment
clearance to minimise fraud ( which is rife thanks to Korea, Nigeria ,
some from China and a few other places closer to home).
talk to the guys who run on line shops you will be horrified at the
rorts that are tried by buyers with stolen CC details or imaginery
ID's.
Yes, well I can vouch for that. I've had two credit cards skimmed
whilst overseas (Malaysia). It only came to light when I saw purchases
on the statement that weren't me. There was several thousand dollars
on Porsche car parts from a US site, one for several hundred for
mobile phone access in Canada and one for a pr0n subscription. I got
all the money back.No jokes about hanging on to the pr0n subscription please - that's
shooting fish in a barrel.Did you get to keep the FF points? 🙂
A mate of mine got skimmed somewhere in Europe, and they ran up 50k on
it before he got back. Got the funds returned, but he got to keep all
the FF points, so he got a free holiday out of it.
Actually, no I don't think I did. Even worse, I now get two
statements for points accumulated - one for the old (ie no new
points since it was canceled) and one for the new. The points
value left on the old card is so small and the effort required
to get them transfered (phone "helpline" for bank is fscking
nightmare) that I've not bothered to chase it up.
Still, I've come out ahead at other times so I'm not going to
stress about it although I hate it when banks win even tiny amounts.
DeF
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Campag_nut said:Quoted message said:No jokes about hanging on to the pr0n subscription please - that's
shooting fish in a barrel.DeF.
No worries Def, if I got caught with the pr0n subscription, I'd claim it
wasn't mine too.
<g>
CN
Boom - tish!
There's always one....
DeF
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Brendo said:Took longer for a set of bib's to come to Rockingham, (Western
Australia) from Melbourne.Nice work on their behalf!!
Brendo
Yeah but doesnt the postie need an armoured escort to deliver in Rockingham???😄
gplama said:My guesses only here... (with a general view of PBK as a whole)..
PBK are simply on top of their game. A warehouse full of goodies and streamlined process.... Interweebians simply place their orders through the website which is linked real-time to their _actual_ inventory - all they have to do is throw it in a bag and send it off. I'm sure they've got a nice deal with the postal service given their volumes. Their IT systems would be interesting - I wonder if they've outsourced it, or have someone in house who is running that show... whichever way, it works damn well.
Im actually trying at the moment to do an interview/article with them so hopefully will have the process revealed soon.
If they would only respond to me.....
If my name was Les Woodlands......
Quoted message said:
Boom - tish!There's always one....
DeF
Sorry Def, it was just too good to pass up - I've waited decades to use that
one.
BTW: Wots a PBK?? I googled it and only got pages of seedy American college
chapters such as Phi Beta Kappa...
CN
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Quoted message said:BTW: Wots a PBK?? I googled it and only got pages of seedy American
college chapters such as Phi Beta Kappa...
HTH
David M
Please tell me the www for pbk, google was no help.
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:57:39 +0800, DeF <""d.farrow\"@your
finger.murdoch.edu.au said:How do PBK do it? Ordered 20/4/07, arrived
24/4/07. Do they have some special deal to
get the blue parcels special priority? How
come the other UK shops can't match this?DeF
DavidM said:"Campag_nut" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:BTW: Wots a PBK?? I googled it and only got pages of seedy American
college chapters such as Phi Beta Kappa...HTH
David M
www.probikekit.co.uk
david said:Please tell me the www for pbk, google was no help.
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:57:39 +0800, DeF <""d.farrow\"@your
finger.murdoch.edu.au said:How do PBK do it? Ordered 20/4/07, arrived
24/4/07. Do they have some special deal to
get the blue parcels special priority? How
come the other UK shops can't match this?DeF
www.probikekit.co.uk
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Quoted message said:DavidM said:"Campag_nut" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:BTW: Wots a PBK?? I googled it and only got pages of seedy American
college chapters such as Phi Beta Kappa...HTH
David M
www.probikekit.co.uk
Of course, either works.
Cheers
David M
DeF said:How do PBK do it? Ordered 20/4/07, arrived
24/4/07. Do they have some special deal to
get the blue parcels special priority? How
come the other UK shops can't match this?DeF
Chain Reaction Cycles, http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Default.aspx
are just as fast and have a larger range. Irish I think.
Halcyon
Halcyon said:DeF said:How do PBK do it? Ordered 20/4/07, arrived
24/4/07. Do they have some special deal to
get the blue parcels special priority? How
come the other UK shops can't match this?DeF
Chain Reaction Cycles, http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Default.aspx
are just as fast and have a larger range. Irish I think.
Halcyon
Yep, Northern Ireland, hence the UK link.
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You can ride it if you like
It's got a basket
A bell that rings
And things to make it look good
I'd give it to you if I could
But I borrowed it" Pink Floyd
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