[Kobus]

Cannot believe it. I ordered the Graf waterpump for my E210 yesterday at about noon. I choose the cheapest (free) delivery in order to do the work next weekend. It arrived today at 2PM - 1 day after ordering it. :thumbsup:
And it was about $40 cheaper than AH. They've won my business for the foreseeable future!:bowdown:

 

[brandon671]

I recently ordered a radiator for a toyota avalon. Took less than a week! from RockAuto. Where did you order from?

 

[magna steyr 210.282]

um yeah, great review... but who the heck did you order from?

you must still be excited!

 

[Kobus]

Oh shucks.
The excitement just got too much. It was from RMEUROPEAN.

 

[Kajtek1]

Shipping is getting cheaper and cheaper. I won small converter from Chinese ebay seller.
The cigarette pack sized part cost me $2.60 WITH FREE SHIPPING.
Chinese post has well working tracking system. Sent from Hong Kong it is in San Francisco in 2 days, what is 20 miles west from my location. On day 3 is in Sacramento, what is 60 miles EAST of my location. On day 4 it is in Richmond, what is 10 days west of my location (10 miles from San Francisco) and on day 5 or 6 it makes to my location.

 

[Check Codes]

I've had that happen with a couple of different vendors; lots of companies use regional warehouses and sometimes you luck out that way.

I've never experienced that luck from China, though. Recently I broke the screen and digitizer on my GPS and it took more than two weeks for the replacement to show up. I wasn't in a hurry anyway, and the fact that it was under $22 -- including shipping -- made it easier to wait.

 

[Kajtek1]

In last 2 years I had close to 20 shipments from China. All of them arrived in very timely manner. Even 20 lb box was send via express shipping regardless the ebay add advising to expect few weeks for delivery.
LED lights become vary cheap and good looking so that make pretty good business.
Sometimes you wonder how they do it. Had to recheck the price, but few months ago I needed shower hose for my bathroom. Home Depot sells those for about $15 and they all are cheap looking plastic chrome imitations.
Went on my bellowed ebay and found stainless steel hose where I "buy it now" of $2.99 and FREE SHIPPING from Hong Kong.
The seller with close to 50,000 positive feedback sold all 194 of them he had.

 

[MBGraham]

I had a need for a lithium battery for a Bushnell rangefinder. They sell at anything for $10-$15 here and I think I bought 2 for $18 last years in USA.

I found a Chinese Ebay site selling them. They are Panasonic batteries. Their price was $2.98 for two. And, price included FREE shipping to me in Canada! Being a big time spender, I ordered four

 

[MBGraham]

Cannot believe it. I ordered the Graf waterpump for my E210 yesterday at about noon. I choose the cheapest (free) delivery in order to do the work next weekend. It arrived today at 2PM - 1 day after ordering it. :thumbsup:
And it was about $40 cheaper than AH. They've won my business for the foreseeable future!:bowdown:

Kobus,
I am in market for a water pump for my 72 350SL. In researching the pumps, Graf and Laso come up as good options. But even with these, and mainly Graf, I read a number of negative reports.

MB has rebuilts, but the are about 2X->3X price of Graf/Laso.

Also thinking about a rebuilt from Cardone.

 

[Kobus]

Kobus,
I am in market for a water pump for my 72 350SL. In researching the pumps, Graf and Laso come up as good options. But even with these, and mainly Graf, I read a number of negative reports.

MB has rebuilts, but the are about 2X->3X price of Graf/Laso.

Also thinking about a rebuilt from Cardone.

Well, as I said the Graf quality look quite good to me. Other people also seems to give it good reviews. The original pump lasted 140K miles. At the price of the Graf vs the genuine one, I'm ahead if the Graf last for more than 23K miles.
But I'll post back with my experience of it in the future.

 

[magna steyr 210.282]

Thanks for the heads up on RM european. I plan to call them on monday to order a replacement cat assembly that was built on a monday. I posted about it under EPIC FAIL or something like that.

Their price looked pretty good and it was in stock. Good to hear others are having good luck with them.

Awesome!

 

[Kobus]

Personally I think Bosal is a bit of a hit and miss. My son order a Bosal for his Miata and that also was not a very good fit. It was close enough that we could bend it so that it could fit but that was also touch and go. They are cheap and I think their quality control reflects it.