Sorry, if you ordered in may 2013 as you say I would be ringing them three times every single day asking for a refund until you get one. Forget the order, forget being nice, that is absolutely ridiculous and you need to get your money back and be rid of them.drpants wrote:I'm having the worst experience with cycling express.
I purchased a trainer and bar tape in May 2013 and was told the trainer is out of stock. Over the phone, I was offered the choice of either waiting for it, picking something else or a full refund.
I elected to wait but strangely received a shipping notice a couple of days later which turns out to be the bar tape in the wrong colour.
No big deal, I sent them an email, they told me to send it back and they'll send the right colour.
I received no replacement and worst still, communications started getting worse. After 2-3 months I called up to check on the order and was told they'll look into it and call me back. I didn't receive a call. Repeat 2-3 times with the exact same result.
Last week I called up CE. After him checking up on it he told me there's nothing he could do and that I should email the company instead because apparently the online shop has nothing to do with him.
I shot over one email. No reply. Second email a couple of days later, still no reply. I just sent the third email and I'm at my wit's end. Is this really how they deal with costumers?
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Postby AUbicycles » Tue Aug 19, 2014 12:08 am
The jurisdiction is a funny thing and I am confused and have received conflicting info from the source - but technically the online store is managed by legend cycling in Hong Kong.
A challenge is that it is a moderately / low priced item but you have a big time investment to get things 'right'. I personally don't believe in retail and online stores being separate - but Apple is a good example of this, just because you have a thousand gurantees on the phone, it doesn't mean anything if you are in an apple store as they are not connected.
Let me know your order number (via PM) and I will see if there is any progress.
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Postby MTG » Tue Oct 28, 2014 11:59 am
After 200k's though, the front wheel (Mavic Ksyrium Equipe S) started to rattle really badly with no obvious sign of anything loose. My LBS had a look and suggested I send it back under warranty - they lent me a spare wheel in the mean time. Anyway, several emails and videos emailed to CE to try and get some action and they have simply ignored me. It's been several weeks since I contacted them and sent in videos of some piece of metal clearly loose inside the cavity of the rim. As a result of lack of contact, I've decided to simply give up on CE to fix the issue. Why would I send my wheel back to them when they can't return emails - I'll never see it again, not this year anyway. As I've mentioned previously, I was hesitant about buying from CE given some customer service issues i'd read about. Aside from the defect rim, the bike is great value and I am happy with it, but unfortunately, i'll unlikely be buying from CE again and will stick to a LBS from now on where I can at least turn up and get some action if I have an issue. It's a lost opportunity for CE for not only me but the many who have had issues, as all it takes is a couple of emails to restore some modicum of faith that things will be sorted, but to simply ignore repeated emails; doesn't inspire confidence.
That's my CE story, hope it helps.
To CE, great bike, great price, great specs - if you can sort our your post sales communication and view customers as potential repeat customers I'm sure you will see less of these threads popping up. Thanks
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Postby biker jk » Tue Oct 28, 2014 1:24 pm
If the rattle is simply metal shavings from the spoke holes being drilled in the rim then this can be easily rectified. Just remove the tyre and try to get the metal shavings to fall out via the valve hole.MTG wrote:I feel I should pipe in again given my recent experience. I did end up buying a new bike from CE and in the end but the medium was too small and I needed a large. Without going into too much detail, I had some trouble convincing them to simply sell me a new large at the same price I bought the medium at not a week earlier without sending the medium back - I was in effect buying 2 new bikes in the space of a week. I managed to find a buyer for the medium and was concerned about sending it back and waiting ages for someone to check the bike was ok before dispatching a new one - selling and simply ordering a new one seemed much easier to me. They did in the end honour the same price I paid a week earlier and I do now have my large bike and sold the medium for the same price I paid.
After 200k's though, the front wheel (Mavic Ksyrium Equipe S) started to rattle really badly with no obvious sign of anything loose. My LBS had a look and suggested I send it back under warranty - they lent me a spare wheel in the mean time. Anyway, several emails and videos emailed to CE to try and get some action and they have simply ignored me. It's been several weeks since I contacted them and sent in videos of some piece of metal clearly loose inside the cavity of the rim. As a result of lack of contact, I've decided to simply give up on CE to fix the issue. Why would I send my wheel back to them when they can't return emails - I'll never see it again, not this year anyway. As I've mentioned previously, I was hesitant about buying from CE given some customer service issues i'd read about. Aside from the defect rim, the bike is great value and I am happy with it, but unfortunately, i'll unlikely be buying from CE again and will stick to a LBS from now on where I can at least turn up and get some action if I have an issue. It's a lost opportunity for CE for not only me but the many who have had issues, as all it takes is a couple of emails to restore some modicum of faith that things will be sorted, but to simply ignore repeated emails; doesn't inspire confidence.
That's my CE story, hope it helps.
To CE, great bike, great price, great specs - if you can sort our your post sales communication and view customers as potential repeat customers I'm sure you will see less of these threads popping up. Thanks
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Postby skydance » Tue Oct 28, 2014 4:19 pm
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Thanks for using our price match service. Unfortunately the wheelset that you wanted is currently on clearance on our site and our promotion codes won't work on them. This means that I can't match anyone's price.
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While it's not a problem by itself, the explanation WHY the item could not be price matched made me laugh.
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Postby __PG__ » Tue Oct 28, 2014 4:43 pm
They have good prices on Castelli jackets at the moment, but I know that Castelli sizing can be all over the shop.
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Re: Cycling Express - New online shop to compete with UK....
Postby MTG » Thu Nov 06, 2014 1:36 pm
It's a lump of square metal biker jk which looks like it may be some kind of backing plate for where they join the rim during manufacture. It's machined and looks like it should serve some purpose - it may even be a counter weight that has come loose, yet I do not know much about rim manufacture. Anyway, limited response to fix the issue from CE to date even though I have been asked to jump through many hoops to provide videos and pics and order number and serial number of the bike and pics of the whole bike as one - each item requested in separate emails after me chasing an update as if no-one really knows how to deal with a warranty claim. Now been a couple of weeks since last contact and not heard a peep.biker jk wrote:If the rattle is simply metal shavings from the spoke holes being drilled in the rim then this can be easily rectified. Just remove the tyre and try to get the metal shavings to fall out via the valve hole.
Likely will fall into the too hard basket for me and them yet it's a shame for CE and Mavic (who I have not been direct to yet).
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Re: Cycling Express - New online shop to compete with UK....
Postby biker jk » Thu Nov 06, 2014 4:26 pm
Your Mavic rim is not pinned but welded. With loose metal this could suggest that the weld has failed. I wouldn't ride that rim.MTG wrote:It's a lump of square metal biker jk which looks like it may be some kind of backing plate for where they join the rim during manufacture. It's machined and looks like it should serve some purpose - it may even be a counter weight that has come loose, yet I do not know much about rim manufacture. Anyway, limited response to fix the issue from CE to date even though I have been asked to jump through many hoops to provide videos and pics and order number and serial number of the bike and pics of the whole bike as one - each item requested in separate emails after me chasing an update as if no-one really knows how to deal with a warranty claim. Now been a couple of weeks since last contact and not heard a peep.biker jk wrote:If the rattle is simply metal shavings from the spoke holes being drilled in the rim then this can be easily rectified. Just remove the tyre and try to get the metal shavings to fall out via the valve hole.
Likely will fall into the too hard basket for me and them yet it's a shame for CE and Mavic (who I have not been direct to yet).
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Re: Cycling Express - New online shop to compete with UK....
Postby AUbicycles » Thu Nov 06, 2014 11:36 pm
Unfortunately I believe it means 'tough luck' even though the case of non-delivery should automaticaly mean a refund - irrespective of system changes or anything else.
I don't agree that for genuine issues that it should be a cumbersome approach for customers with no-responses or unreasonably long delays - or even with an unmanaged and staggered approach of requesting information and still failing to follow through.
I wish any bike business driven by passion and honesty success and would like to include Cycling Express however am concerned.
To plot this, when they launched I was positive, but quickly concerned based on the number of compliants. They they became involved in the forums (*) and improved. Then forum participation stopped, and the complaints started, then they relocated overseas and the complaints increased. From this side, I know exactly what they need to do...
(* disclosure - When CE started active forum participation, they also ran some advertising on BNA)
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Postby Rockford » Sun Nov 09, 2014 1:26 pm
We'd like to award you with a $20* voucher!
Thanks for shopping with us over the last year.
We hope you liked the items you bought from us.
We're eager to get customer feedback on all of our products and would like to invite you to review your purchase. We believe that this assists the cycling community to buy the best products available and gives the manufacturers important feedback.
As an added incentive, for every review you write we’ll give you a voucher for $20*. If you review two products you'll get two vouchers, if you review 5 products you'll get 5 vouchers and so on.
($200 minimum purchase)
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Re: Cycling Express - New AUS online shop to compete with UK
Postby }SkOrPn--7 » Sun Nov 09, 2014 4:52 pm
From page one I think my gut feeling was correct.........}SkOrPn--7 wrote:I am looking forward to there new online store to check out but my hopes are not high at this stage only time will tell if my gut feeling goes away.
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Re: Cycling Express - New online shop to compete with UK....
Postby Alien27 » Mon Nov 10, 2014 2:25 pm
I got that email over the weekend as well. Listed 9 items i had bought, i reviewed 6 of them, one in a million chance of getting $120 worth of vouchers but worth a shotRockford wrote:I'm never using them again, they promised $20 vouchers for any reviews of products you purchased, so I duly did a few and nothing came of it. No vouchers nothing.
We'd like to award you with a $20* voucher!
Thanks for shopping with us over the last year.
We hope you liked the items you bought from us.
We're eager to get customer feedback on all of our products and would like to invite you to review your purchase. We believe that this assists the cycling community to buy the best products available and gives the manufacturers important feedback.
As an added incentive, for every review you write we’ll give you a voucher for $20*. If you review two products you'll get two vouchers, if you review 5 products you'll get 5 vouchers and so on.
($200 minimum purchase)
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Postby Alien27 » Mon Nov 10, 2014 2:29 pm
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Postby Ross » Sat Nov 22, 2014 9:56 am
I ordered 2 Ultegra 6800 chains and 2 Dura Ace 9000 chains, the Ult chains were just in a generic plastic bag with a CE sticker on the front but the DA chains were in OEM Shimano cardboard packaging. The lights I ordered were in their OEM moulded plastic packaging.
So thumbs up for CE on that order, fast delivery and goods as per order.
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Re: Cycling Express - New online shop to compete with UK....
Postby MTG » Sun Dec 07, 2014 8:57 am
Rather embarrassing for cycling express I would say to send me to someone who has nothing to do with cycling express, yet cycling express have now simply stopped responding to me emails sonc providing the PDF. Can they simply stop responding.......really?
I'm really not sure what to do now after buying a brand new bike from cycling express, riding it for 200ks to have a wheel fail issue and to simply be ignored by cycling express and not offered any kind of option to help me out. I have suggested to cycling express that I would be happy for them to send a new rim to any LBS of their choosing and I would simply go in and make the swap but they ignored this suggestion. There is no way I am sending the rim back as I can almost guarantee that I will never see it again in this life time given cycling express' standard response times and general ability to managing emails let alone a physical package.
Anyway, got a brand new bike with a defective wheel that cycling express simply want nothing to do with - way to go looking after your customers and an outstanding example of incompetency in how to retain customers and repair a damaged customer service rep.
My advice to would-be cycling express customers, purchase from cycling express by all means as they do have some great deals. My bike (apart from the faulty wheel) is a great bike, yet do not expect any form of after sales service if you have anything wrong with your order or have a claim to make.
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Re: Cycling Express - New online shop to compete with UK....
Postby Ross » Sun Dec 07, 2014 12:19 pm
Saying that if the wheel is faulty due to manufacturing issue then Mavic are as bad as CE for not honouring warranty. They manufactured the wheel, not CE, not really CEs fault the wheel is borked, they just sold it. It shouldn't matter where you bought it from (though you have provided both CE and Mavic with comprehensive purchase detail), if the wheel is faulty then the wheel is faulty. It doesn't suddenly become un-faulty because you are in Australia and CE are in China (or wherever) and Mavic are somewhere else. I suggest you buy another brand of wheel next time, Mavic aren't worthy of your business.
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Re: Cycling Express - New online shop to compete with UK....
Postby Redbull » Mon Dec 08, 2014 12:49 am
It's not acceptable, and contravenes Australian consumer law, to try and shunt the issue on to Mavic.
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Postby Ross » Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:58 am
Umm...CE aren't an Australian company so Australian laws don't apply to them.Redbull wrote: It's not acceptable, and contravenes Australian consumer law, to try and shunt the issue on to Mavic.
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Postby GTPilot » Mon Dec 08, 2014 7:20 am
I never use email for returns or complaints with ANY company these days, gets you nowhere.
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Re: Cycling Express - New online shop to compete with UK....
Postby CyclingExpress » Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:46 pm
This is Shaun from Cycling Express.
I've just recently taken on the role of customer support manager and my attention was drawn to this forum post. Chris notified us of a possible growing issue surrounding the replies or rather "lack of replies" to inquiries from the Cycling Express support team. This of course is of great concern to me and I would like to resolve these problems.
I was taking a look through the posts here and noticed MTG has had an issue regarding a new bike purchase. I also see there have been some issues with vouchers being promised for reviews. There is clearly an error somewhere in our computer system and I am looking into what has gone wrong.
I am unable to look into the case at present as I do not have any contact information for you all given that forum poster identities are not made public.
I would like to reach out to MTG and also to anyone else on this forum who has had problems in relation to Cycling Express. I would like you to contact me at shaun@cyclingexpress.com and also CC sales@cyclingexpress.com. I will personally handle the matter. Those who have left reviews and not received codes will get the codes promised.
I need you to contact me and we can get these issues resolved for you all.
Thank you for your time and please accept our apologies.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Shaun
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Re: Cycling Express - New online shop to compete with UK....
Postby nezumi » Mon Dec 08, 2014 7:04 pm
Not quite true...Ross wrote:Umm...CE aren't an Australian company so Australian laws don't apply to them.Redbull wrote: It's not acceptable, and contravenes Australian consumer law, to try and shunt the issue on to Mavic.
SourceChoice wrote:Your rights online are covered by the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) in the same way that you’re covered when you walk into a store off the street. However, these provisions are difficult to enforce in other jurisdictions, and the ACCC advises it may be difficult to enforce the consumer protection laws of other countries on your behalf.
SourceSlater & Gordon wrote:Australia’s consumer laws apply to overseas traders who do business in Australia but it is difficult to apply those laws in Australia. A complaint can be lodged with econsumer.gov, an international agency that gathers and shares cross-border e-commerce complaints.
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Re: Cycling Express - New online shop to compete with UK....
Postby MTG » Tue Dec 09, 2014 9:29 am
Email with full transcript duly sent to both emails addresses. Good luck in the new role and lets hope this new appointment does indeed serve to firstly assist those with current issues and then help to restore some faith back into the cycling community.
Look forward to hearing from you. MTG
CyclingExpress wrote:Hi everyone,
This is Shaun from Cycling Express.
I've just recently taken on the role of customer support manager and my attention was drawn to this forum post. Chris notified us of a possible growing issue surrounding the replies or rather "lack of replies" to inquiries from the Cycling Express support team. This of course is of great concern to me and I would like to resolve these problems.
I was taking a look through the posts here and noticed MTG has had an issue regarding a new bike purchase. I also see there have been some issues with vouchers being promised for reviews. There is clearly an error somewhere in our computer system and I am looking into what has gone wrong.
I am unable to look into the case at present as I do not have any contact information for you all given that forum poster identities are not made public.
I would like to reach out to MTG and also to anyone else on this forum who has had problems in relation to Cycling Express. I would like you to contact me at shaun@cyclingexpress.com and also CC sales@cyclingexpress.com. I will personally handle the matter. Those who have left reviews and not received codes will get the codes promised.
I need you to contact me and we can get these issues resolved for you all.
Thank you for your time and please accept our apologies.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Shaun
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Postby ironhanglider » Tue Dec 09, 2014 9:51 pm
BTW this thread seems to be about a similar issue.MTG wrote:Thank you Shaun
Email with full transcript duly sent to both emails addresses. Good luck in the new role and lets hope this new appointment does indeed serve to firstly assist those with current issues and then help to restore some faith back into the cycling community.
Look forward to hearing from you. MTGCyclingExpress wrote:Hi everyone,
This is Shaun from Cycling Express.
I've just recently taken on the role of customer support manager and my attention was drawn to this forum post. Chris notified us of a possible growing issue surrounding the replies or rather "lack of replies" to inquiries from the Cycling Express support team. This of course is of great concern to me and I would like to resolve these problems.
I was taking a look through the posts here and noticed MTG has had an issue regarding a new bike purchase. I also see there have been some issues with vouchers being promised for reviews. There is clearly an error somewhere in our computer system and I am looking into what has gone wrong.
I am unable to look into the case at present as I do not have any contact information for you all given that forum poster identities are not made public.
I would like to reach out to MTG and also to anyone else on this forum who has had problems in relation to Cycling Express. I would like you to contact me at shaun@cyclingexpress.com and also CC sales@cyclingexpress.com. I will personally handle the matter. Those who have left reviews and not received codes will get the codes promised.
I need you to contact me and we can get these issues resolved for you all.
Thank you for your time and please accept our apologies.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Shaun
Duck! wrote:It's probably the rim joining block floating around. Seen it happen in several Mavic rims. Not fixable.
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