dazed

I recently wanted to get some coilovers. I usually buy things new, I know it's not smart to cheap out on coilovers, or get some heavily used ones. This will my 3rd set. Megans that came with the car broke, KTS's don't go as low as I'd like, and something might be wrong with one of them.

Zilvia is cool and all for used stuff but honestly I've really found that Yahoo Auctions are a GOLD mine. It really all depends on what you want though, some things aren't worth importing unless you have a container connection (aero, hoods, engines, ect). Coils are pretty heavy the Silk Road's I bought ended up being 51 pounds (shipping weight).




So anyway I picked out some coils like I usually do, figured shipping wouldn't be TOO bad (I've already priced out an intercooler, I've had LOTS of stuff shipped over from Japan, rear valence, seat, ect).

I found some nice MINTY Silk Road RM/A8's only 16k Kilometers on them. There were already like 10 bids on it so I knew some dudes in Japan wanted it. I wanted it more though, and ended up winning it for 23,500 yen (about $300 USD).

Bidding was all done through Rinkya. They're new website layout is pretty nice and ergonomic. The only reason I went through Rinkya is because Jesse Streeter was away for the holidays. He's a rad dude, I've bought all my grail parts from him.

So I win the auction, Rinkya asks me to pay for shipping to the U.S. when it's gets to their warehouse. Only one small problem: they wanted like $380 to ship it...... I instantly put in a support ticket saying that I have experience importing stuff and that price is BULLSHIT and why would they ship Fed-Ex, I told them my dude always ships EMS or Sea Post.

Literally 5 minutes of me putting that help ticket in, I get a new shipping price of $260.

I asked for a status report of what is going on.......


Basically dude tells me HE is the one who instantly fixed that horribly fucked up shipping price instantly, yet it was a "new trainee" that was responsible for the huge error in price. He says that if I had paid that price they would have refunded me instantly, but who really knows?

Regardless like I said I'm just getting really paranoid at this point and trying not to get screwed. I tell them just give me the cheapest shipping option which was somehow Fed-Ex at $260......

Got here really quick, no issues there.

So all in all, I was somewhat disappointed with them. Not to the point where I regret the whole transaction, but I really can't stress how cheap and good Jesse Streeter is. I'm still very much a YAJ believer.

Another negative thing is:

"Won bid amount 23500¥ ($297.47) Commission $39.00 Handling Fees $15.00 Paid $351.47 "


Commission is probably twice what Jesse would ask for. Handling fee's are for the item to get shipped to them, which I guess is understandable.

But then after all that, they still hit me with a "Extra Charge" of $12.68, so the grand total was like $520 or something.

Still TOTALLY worth it for some almost BNIB Silk Road's, but I just would have rather gone with Jesse Streeter.

I actually asked him what he would have charged for this item, I'm waiting on a response from him.


Some random pics:





I would be happy to answer questions. I didn't see many extensive review's on Rinkya which is why I put this up, and to also let people know they're expensive.

tyrone

Did JEsse ever get back to you?

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BossHogg

Jesse is the man. I got my nismo seat through him....right before the holiday break thank god.

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dazed

He did. This is all quite awhile ago. But basically when shipping coilovers, he reccomends Sea-Post (cheap but takes over a month usually) vs. Fed-Ex which he says is inaccurate with quotes and hard to avoid import-tax.

Amen. Nobody else compares.

BossHogg

Just sent him a payment today actually lol. No hassles with Jesse. Email, buy, wait to arrive at door, fist pump and smile.

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hionpsi

How do I get ahold of this Jesse

Dranom

Yeah. Whos jesse? Is he a member here?

240boi115

man id be just as paranoid. 0.0 hope everything gets sorted out for you OP.

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my 240 broke down..again

dazed

Yeah, I got everything worked out. Just learned my lesson, literally never going through anyone else (he was away on Christmas when I tried Rinkya).

Still fuckin with him, I have like 2 grand worth of stuff I'm waiting on. Legit as always.