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Trigger:
I agree with Lester on this. Order a aftermarket ignition switch at £20, and postage is £2,50. Then add a OEM tappet and it jumps to £11.75.
 And as for insurance from the PO, it is a joke. I sent a kick start off for a re-chrome. The PO lost it and when i made a claim they sent 6 first class stamp as compensation. They recon that it is a second hand part and only has scrap value.

matthewmosse:
Good point hairygit, I can quite see that side of it, but I'd say there are cheaper services than royal mail, especially when it comes to a halfway big or weighty item, I sold a cb250 brake disk and speedo drive the other day, 99p and £8 postage, thought that would cover it, poped into post office £14 to send it - the post office lady did assure me it was insured for something like up to £50 or something, but since it ony got a 99p bid that wasn't an issue, as it was I sent it for about £5 via Hermes, who even collect at that price. I note the Hermes prices went up after RM's but still cheaper. One thing Dave Silver has in his favour in a big way, no one can rival his range of parts or indeed the quality of a lot of it.

David Silver:
Firstly, we do not make any profit on the packing and postage. Up to £20 is sent via royal mail which carries
no tracking  and in the event of total loss is the max they are prepaired to pay out. Above this value we use a courier which carries a fixed charge in the UK mainland and a higher fixed charge for Islands and Northern
Island which is the highest. Customers using any website shopping cart generally want to know at the time of placing their order what the final total is, in any case the millions of permutations of parts combinations would render it impossible to organise it any other way. Of course, this does not favour orders that only just breech £20, however, on many occasions as the orders are actually processed manually we will often still use royal mail when the order is clearly below 2kg (maximum allowed) and the value is only slightly higher than £20.

AshimotoK0:

David also added this via Facebook :

David Silver Spares wrote: 

"Hi Ashley, I have posted my reply on the forum. Please note that I am in the USA currently and have a very full week so may not be able to make any further replies for now. Towards the end of next week, I am packing up a museum of vintage Honda M/C (Google Bob Logue museum) which is coming to the UK for display at Leiston. Your members may be intereted in seeing them.Announcements about this will follow"

mick:
Hello David and welcome to the forum  ;) cheers Mick.

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