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CARid????

Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 1:13 am
by trickyVibe
has anyone bought anything off of this website? i recently order the carbon fiber roof rail off here and they were supposed to be ship out of their store 8/1/13 (today) and now they are telling me that they aren't going to leave their store till 8/13/13. :oops: Now i'm thinking to myself why i paid $35 for shipping when its going to take over 3 weeks. I told this to their customer support and they only offered me a $15 gift card for my next buy with them....lets just say I will never be buying anything off CARid again. The sad thing is I have Rims and tires on order from them to and they are supposed to be shipped on 8/6/13 fingers crossed!


With my experience with them i would not recommend you buy anything from them! prices are a little cheaper on some items but their shipping sucks!

Re: CARid????

Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 9:23 am
by zythr
Thanks for the heads up. You don't have a local parts shop, like a stereo/tire type for the parts you want?

Re: CARid????

Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 1:35 pm
by SeattleJeremy
So if I'm reading all this right, you ordered the RKsport CF roof rails.

I haven't done any business with CARid, but I've done business with companies that look like CARid. They are likely a wholesale drop shipment type shop. Meaning, when a customer places an order, they order that item from the company that makes the product, and when they receive the product they add a packing slip and ship it to you.

Notice, every single item in their store is "in stock". Yet, there is a delay on shipping this product, why? Because they don't have anything in stock. The part where it says "Usually ships within" means that's how long it takes to ship to their shop before its shipped to you. RKSport is in California, CARid is in New Jersey.

RKsport makes excellent products, the problem is most of their stuff is made after the order is placed. Look at RKsports website for this product, click on the Availability tab.
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Most of our products are made to order require the following lead times.
Carbon Fiber: 7-10 Days
Fiberglass: 4-7 Days
Urethane: 3-5 Days
That's working days, so "10 Days" is two weeks.

Their shipping doesn't actually suck, it's that they told you something was in-stock where in reality the product hadn't been manufactured yet.

$35 shipping is a good price for such a large object. Especially when it's been shipped from one coast to the the other, then back to the Detroit.

Re: CARid????

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 8:28 pm
by trickyVibe
just got another email on my rims and they sent the wrong ones!