Anyone heard of them?

Seems too good to be true, but they have a bike I really want for a crazy price!

http://www.zilla-bike.com

Do you really have to ask?

We’ll I work for a mail order company that ships the other way and we’re a lot cheaper. Than many places

Well let me think, a bike is being sold for 30% of the UK price. Could that possibly be a scam?

To be safe make sure you pay by Western Union

Bikes tend to be 30-40% cheaper here due to a number of reasons, mostly tax related (rather, a lack of any taxes).
If it helps, I’ve never heard of them.

You over there Stewartc?

Yep, if I get time later O will check them out, see where they are

Don’t forget to add on your import duty and vat to the price if it ever turns up.

It’s an Australian registered domain name, and they’re selling bikes for 30% of UK prices, not at a 30% discount! $3000 for an XX1 equipped Anthem Advanced. Di2 bikes for $1000.

They sell loads of bikes, but absolutely nothing else, they have badly written testimonials.

The photo of their shop looks so genuine too 😕

Here’s the street view of their HK address:
Looks like every high end bike shop!

Well they claim to have won an Indonesian trade award from Hong Kong (I doubt China missed the Indonesian invasion), beating out that famous Indonesian company Toyota as top Hong Kong exporter for 2014. Sounds very legit.

Step away from the internet Spyke.

I only want a Genesis Fortitude Race in 19″! Been let down by one shop that ‘had’ one and had to do all the chasing to find out when it was arriving only to be told never!

I’m interested what stewartc finds now!

Haha, the Kowloon address is the same as a bike shop called Bullbike, I know they are legit as I was there on Monday buying stuff!
Unless the staff there are running a business on the side I would avoid this with extreme caution, I will also send an email to Bullbike to let them know about this, after all it may all be above board, no matter how unlikely.

and they’re selling bikes for 30% of UK prices

So either…
They got a lot of bikes wholesale and are selling them for less than trade.
They did the extra production run out the factory and knocked off a load of extra frames and found some groupsets (ie knock off)
They are just going to take your money and run

I shall keep an eye on this thread it’s making me smile!

Incidentally Njee20s Google street view is a little out of date, next to the grocery store in that image is now a rather high end Specialized store (which is part of the Bullbike group, the main shop being on the corner, 1st floor).

The case gets interesting!

mikewsmith – Member
Don’t forget to add on your import duty and vat to the price if it ever turns up.

even paying 20% vat and 15% duty the prices are still crazy cheap.

And you only have to pay tax if it actually turns up…

And you only have to pay tax if it actually turns up…

😆 win win!

paypal?

No, it really doesn’t. These websites appear all the time, looking almost exactly the same (though, tbf, this one isn’t based on a template for a sex toy webshop, which is something), offering the same testimonials (literally, copy and paste them into google and you’ll find they appear on several other scam websites) and fantasy prices.

The paypal link on their page doesn’t go to paypal. Usual m.o. is to say they’re having trouble with paypal and you could have you shiny invisible bike a lot sooner if you just send the money through Western Union instead.