ANYBODY TRIED THESE ?....... china comes to town

morphix

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Thanks Morphix. Do BMS/GBK offer a sea freight option for shipping battery? I would not mind to wait a longer to save the shipping cost.

p.s. you are very active here I wish you could electrify your D9 successfully. I have just done it my Dahon Jack D7 with SWXH motor and it is a perfect bike for conversion. No filing to the dropout.

Pat
Not as far as I know, because it wouldn't be economically viable for small consumer orders...if you purchased a lot of stuff though you could certainly arrange that yourself from the UK with a shipping agent and I'm sure BMS would be happy to courier it to the nearest port. It would have to be a lot of stuff though to make it worthwhile as you'd be looking at a minimum of £60-£130 for sea freight + agents/customs clearance fee of about £50, plus road freight delivery from port to your door (or a UK courier) unless you're near the port of entry in UK and able to go collect. I do shipments of about 150kg (half a container load) by sea freight and it costs me all together about £250. Most shipping agents won't do anything less than half a container, and so have a fixed fee of like £100-£130 even if you only send one box, rather than a pallet of boxes as I do.

What you might be able to do it choose "surface mail"...or whatever the Chinese equivalent is called...I can't recall if that's an option on their shipping options now..but surface mail is basically a sea freight alternative to Airmail for letter post and small packets (Royal Mail offers this and some other countries) but it's bloody slow! It can take like 6-8 weeks for delivery.
 
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