Hi folks

I live far away from the U.S. but nevertheless I buy most of my race parts directly from various vendors there. For example my last purchase was a dual master cylinder from Rick Ehrenberg who´s selling them here on Moparts: A good product at a fair price. Shipping was $50 for that master cylinder.
Then, earlier today I needed a good 727 trans gasket. Checked out Jegs.com. Their price for the Moroso #710-93110 gasket is reasonable $25.99 and I am even willing to tolerate a handling charge of $9.99. But there is no way I´m willing to pay their shipping charge of $106.86!!
Total: $142.84.
But wait, we´re not done yet: The Icelandic import tax is 24.5% of that total amount; bringing the total to $177.83 for ONE trans pan gasket.

Who is the fat cat Jegs is feeding with these ridiculous shipping costs?

Besides not buying stuff from Jegs until their shipping price returns to earth I´m also calling the Guinness Book of World Records.

Ragnar in Iceland

JEGS treats me well but they use FED EX and that may be the problem compared to a normal person using USPS to ship to another country

Seems to me you could just mail a pan gasket using the post office here. Way cheaper.

If you call Jegs and talk to someone they may be willing to do that for you.

i'm an out of country racer who gets the same run around. i've used Jegs before but you have to confirm the freight before you go ahead with the purchase. sometimes their freight price is wrong!. Summit have a freight calculator on their site so you know how much your pockets will feel the pain before you buy, that is a better option for me when wanting stuff in a hurry.

Specify USPS shipping; you can check prices at their website, usps.com. First Class is usually cheapest, but occasionally Priority International is about the same. They also have flat rate boxes, which are almost exempt from weight charges. Sometimes using your own box and shipping it Priority Intl is cheaper than the flat rate box.
We ship our tools all over the world, and USPS beats FedEx & UPS by a ton.

Just dont use Jeg's, They are out to milk the foreign market, it sickens me, summit are the same.
The average american hasn't got a clue the amount of import duty we are paying abroad.
I always try and use smaller traders off moparts if i can.
Mick

many companies refuses to use anything else than UPS or FEDEX, I always use USPS if I can, and yes we too pay 23%+ 4-5% customs fee, even on the shipping costs!

Did Jegs do the brokering and add the import duties to that bill??

I hear Summit will send by mail if you phone and ask!

Find somebody that ships usps like summit.
I got stuff from these guys also that ship usps
http://www.carshopinc.com/
Man, I thought we got the shaft in Canada.

Jeg's dont broker the duty, they are just out to rip us foreigners off.
Quite often, parts will be over a third more expensive by the time they get to our door.
Mick

I quit buying from the Summit and Jegs because of their shipping.

I HAVE specified USPS and it showed up via UPS with a hefty brokerage fee too boot.

If they don't want to listen to their customers, they can keep their parts.

Summit has always been good to me but it still sucks paying all this extra money, you can always ship by boat but it takes a couple of months

shipping costs are one of the largest costs for building a car outside the US.

Does USPS offer small package service and pick-up for hundreds of parcels a day at a Summit or Jegs like UPS or FedEx? No way the vendors will box it up and then pay someone to drive over to the post office to stand in line and mail it.

At the same time, high-volume shippers do get shipping discounts and may not pass on the discount, so you may be paying list price while they make more GP$ on the freight out. You might look on the UPS site and see the walk-in retail rate and a shipper with a commercial account might be paying 1/2 or less.

a quote from Fedex International to ship front end parts to switzerland to a customer was over $600.00 plus all the duty and broker fee's
i feel for you guys over seas trying to build cars.

make your own gasguet

USPS is the way to go as long as the local Postal Service in the receiving country is reliable.

Example: Kuwait=No I still have a Box MIA from back in 1996.
India=Yes slow but it will get there eventually. I send to my mother-in-law this way no issues yet.

All USPS mail rides on DHL or even sometimes Fed-Ex / UPS planes to get there anyways.

All I would suggest is make sure you get Insurance and some form of tracking and Signature Receipt. Which are extra but very minimal.

Far as companies only using UPS and FedEx that's because they are just plain too lazy!!! USPS does have a pick-up service but you have to actually PickUp the phone an schedule a Pick-Up. They don't just come around pick it up every day like UPS/FedEx does with businesses. If the business has their Mail Delivered directly to their shop, they can just as easy ask the delivering person about a pick-up.

I work overseas a lot and it is extremely expensive to get things sent out in the places I work via DHL or Fed ex (UPS is too scared to come here LOL). I won't order form anyone that doesn't ship via USPS.

Used to be DHL was the way to go for Int'l shipping. They went places no one else would go and the prices were cheaper. But they closed their US Operations (even though they were an American Company). They will ship into the US. But I don't think they do any shipping out any more.

With our business ANYTHING being shipped larger that a letter is HIGHER when using the post office. We just did a price quote on this sending a package out that is 9 lbs. USPS = $12.75 FedEx was $12.01 and U.P.S. was $11.23. The rates the post office charges when you get away from anything very lite or simply a letter is higher than the other two. We ONLY use U.P.S. here. They are the only ones that seem to be able to find us and get here when they say they will...