Please Help - Can I trust this eBay shop ?

[UK_Downhiller]

Hello,
I never bought mountain bike parts before online, actually, i'm even new to bikechatforums, the reason I'm giving it a shot is because I've got a friend that told me that the parts on the net are much cheaper then retail shops ... I found this shop on eBay called "Extreme Priced Bike Parts", their link is:
https://stores.ebay.com/Extreme-Priced-Bike-Parts

I ran into them when I was searching for a Rock Shox Totem 2 Step-Air ... first I wanted to buy it from "Cycle Sports UK",
there it's priced for £654.99 :
https://www.cyclesportsuk.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=3242

but then, when I checked this shop on eBay, I found out they are selling the same model for only $945.99 (£478.97)
https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280071838596&ih=018&category=58086&ssPageName=STORE:PROMOBOX:GENERIC
This is almost 30% less ... and they got "best offer", so I understand that possibly even a bit cheaper, I wanted to check if you recommend me to proceed with that purchase, seems promissing because they got like 182 positive feedbacks and I saw many from the UK, I sent those Extreme Priced Bike Parts a question and they told me that they will undervalue the totem to 99$ only so that i won't pay high VAT charges that really makes me wonder if I should buy from them or not ... so please help me to decide, it'll be my first online purchase and I need some tips from people that are experienced.

Any comments will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Dave.

[Adam_P]

Anyone esle wondering whether he actually read what BCF was about before starting to post?
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Who voted before reading the post

[Black Knight]

Hi Dave,

Yes the shop looks good, i'd use them.

Undervaluing the package is great too, it means you won't get hit with huge import tax too.

This is a motorcycle forum btw
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[strag]

Or it could be a clever promotion of his shop
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Buy an SV650 and chuck the pushbike in a skip!

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[SoulRider]

everyone knows that the 98r1 would destroy the 0-60, 0-100 and 0-1000mph time of a push bike. But the push bike with 21 gears it will be a hell of a race
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Might be a good time for that push bike vs Harley long joke thingy as well .