Usually they won't allow interstate sales unless it's a national chain store (ie: 99Bikes).
Fair enough. I had a chain store do it for me once as the frame is was buying was new old stock so i guess there felt comfortable they weren’t stealing a sale off a franchise owner in another state. Now that i think about it, they did make a point of saying they dont usually do it and that i should tell people i bought the frame in person on holiday and they were just shipping it to my home for me…
I asked they said no.
Bike shop said no
Probably for warranty and dealer contract reasons. Most brands will have in their dealer conditions that bikes must leave the shop fully assembled & ready to go.
Going via the P&S online process is cheaper. You get to put all the relevant info in yourself and print out the carrier documents and stick them onto the bike box. The only problem with that is, if the box is too big (LxWxH) or over a value of $3k, then you'll have to take it in and get them to process it for you. If you have both postcodes of the send and recieve, you can go to the online site and get an exact quote before yo go to the P&S depot/shop. Either way, dropping it to the shop is better than getting it collected.
That was it.
What was the pricing like.
I took a packed frame into a pack and send once and the guy let me do everything online in the store to save money. I didn’t realise it was cheaper to do that so I was really happy he let me know and then allowed me to use the computer in the shop to do it. It was the best of both worlds as I was able to measure and weight it accurately there too. And drop it straight off of course.
When I have sent bikes it's the same price to have it picked up or dropped off but it is much cheaper to do it online.
