a new low for On-One/Planet X? or just par for the course

little while ago on-one/planet x advertised 25% off everything ( except bikes) for EVER! however in small print it said “well not really for ever, but until the end of November”
just went to buy something but the code “ENDOFWORLD” doesnt work anymore, which is because the owner has decided he doesnt want to do it anymore?
and stuff is still at price they put it up to just before this sale/offer.
i feel sorry for all ahis staff who have to apologise for the way they work

It’s because the fibonacci reduction has been applied – you can;t stack them.

that`s not a reason? i understand you may not be able to stack deals, but the items i wanted were not in the Fibonacci deal so i wasnt trying to stack them. Even so, should they not start the new deal after the first one has finished? or at least honour the deal for stuff not in the Fibonacci

Planet X to go bust next year, I reckon.

I was expecting this to be the bikes for £223* that they emailed earlier
*requires assembly and some additional parts

Now also need to spend £100 to get free postage.

I was expecting this to be the bikes for £223* that they emailed earlier
*requires assembly and some additional parts

I’m actually half tempted by this. Have you worked out which parts are needed?

£100! Doomed.

Planet X to go bust next year, I reckon.

Would be surprised if they make it till then with the things they have been doing recently.

I’m actually half tempted by this. Have you worked out which parts are needed

The website said you needed to add rimtape to your order….. I mean ffs they can’t even throw rim tape into the bundle

Planet X to go bust next year, I reckon.

I hope not, as much as their pricing model is very annoying they have made some great bikes over the years

Damnit I quite like those holdsworths, planet X is a guilty pleasure. Don’t want to buy stuff but I can’t help it sometimes, £30 for a stem I can take or leave but then they reduce it to £13…..oh nope it buy it.

Imagine the irony if they go bust and Sports Direct buy the OO/PX trademarks to start knocking out cheap bikes…

Redundancies cost ££££££. Gotta raise the money somehow, if they are to survive.

Just looked at their sale page. Managed to read about two thirds of the ‘hilarious’ mathematical explanation for their reductions before giving up.

Carl Friedrich Gauss Triangular Number Sale
91-hour sale, starts Friday 2nd 7am ends Tuesday 6th December 1am Everyone loves a good triangle, it’s the only musical instrument I was allowed to play at school, loads of three sides bargains.

All prices move to a triangular number

I’m guessing that they’ve laid off their marketing team and handed the duties to someone in accounts?

It’s a shame for the OP that the stuff they want isn’t included in the current sale that I think ends tomorrow, maybe they are planned for the other sales they announced?

It’s a shame £100 is now needed for free postage, but going on my memory, there is a lot of stock that matches the best price we saw in 2016 and I can easily but 100 squids in the basket and know I’m not paying “over the odds” for a 2016 basket.
Stuff like bars; stems; tyres; n/w chainrings; forks; bungs; fatbike wheels; panniers; kids fat bike etc.

Now I’m back home and can look at the site on my pc instead of on my tablet, I shall probably go wild in the aisles. 😆

+1 on the going bust theory. Selling build-your-own-bike is desperate cash flow stuff, turning around stock without spending on labour. I recently bought a bike from an LBS run by a friend 120 miles away. I was happy to receive it in its original shipping state but he assembled it, set up and PDIed it before re packaging and shipping it to me. Combo of professional pride and manufacturer policy. Weirdly his business is thriving.

I’m actually half tempted by this. Have you worked out which parts are needed?

Everything apart from Bar Grips, which come free with your £223.

Not even close to a new low tbh.

wukfit – Member

The website said you needed to add rimtape to your order….. I mean ffs they can’t even throw rim tape into the bundle

To be fair that’s actually pretty common, I remember raging out a bit at Merlin when I got wheels from them. But then, these days I use stans/tesa tape on everything so I wouldn’t want standard tape.

steezysix – Member

Imagine the irony if they go bust and Sports Direct buy the OO/PX trademarks to start knocking out cheap bikes…

Dave’ll be delighted.

Lester, email customer service, I suspect they’d be willing to offer you the goods you want at the price they were before ENDOFWORLD was turned off- because we terminated that deal early.

Re the unbuilt bikes, you need rim tape, brake inner and outer, gear outer, ferules, delete according to drivetrain.

The deal switches up soon, it might make sense to do a little research on the next number sequence, as some items will go up and some will come down further.

^ why would you supply a bike but missing crucial but very cheap components? I mean that’s £10 worth of parts at cost, surely?

^ why would you supply a bike but missing crucial but very cheap components? I mean that’s £10 worth of parts at cost, surely?

Simple. It’s so that someone will generate a thread on here moaning about it and others will see it and then go to the site and buy stuff. Stealth marketing.

The deal switches up soon, it might make sense to do a little research on the next number sequence.

Sounds like a worthwhile use of my time. 😀

The deal switches up soon, it might make sense to do a little research on the next number sequence, as some items will go up and some will come down further.

Stealth marketing has worked, I’ve had a look at the site and this number sale thing is bonkers (not in a good way) and confusing.

A bishbash bosh is £610 now with 38% off the RRP (Rarely Real Price??)

Any Bletchley park types out there know if it will be cheaper or pricier tomorrow?

Assuming the seat post fits the build your own bike is quite clever.

We are talking about it

Presumably the missing bits allow them to hit pricing point like £499 for the London Road. Quite a big pile of bits for the money

Was looking to buy a 650b codeine with fox forks was £750 with ENDOFWORLD code, wanted sea foam colour rather than stealth. Emailed, no reply; live chat, cut off; telephone, rang off.
Now code no longer valid and price back up to £999.99. Buy frame and forks separate £987.00!

Bonkers!

I reckon you’d be bonkers to send them any money you couldn’t afford to lose right now.

If they make it past the end of January without calling in the receivers or doing some dodgy company switcheroo I’d be surprised.

newrobdob – Member
I reckon you’d be bonkers to send them any money you couldn’t afford to lose right now.

If they make it past the end of January without calling in the receivers or doing some dodgy company switcheroo I’d be surprised.

Don’t worry I won’t be!

newrobdob – Member
I reckon you’d be bonkers to send them any money you couldn’t afford to lose right now.

Credit Card or PayPal should be safe enough.

They probably have a big order coming in that has to be paid for in now much more expensive US$.

Being masters of the discount, they’ll sell enough to stay afloat IMO, so maybe we can expect even bigger discounts if things get tight for them.

Problem is, how many Pompinos does a man need?

Clearly they’re busy generating cashflow, but I don’t believe it is because they’re going bust – I’d expect somewhat different behaviour from them if that was the case.

The sooner PX/On-One/brand whoring **** go bust the better – not for any employees obviously but the QC lacking tat mungers really do annoy me.

They seem to have been looking for money/getting rid off stock elsewhere too http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/600-planet-x-items-sold-at-auction-earlier-today/020356

I worked in retail a long time and you can spot the signs of a desperate company. They might just be completely changing the way they run to a 100% Sports Direct model but I’m not sure they have the outlets for sales like SD do to make that work. They aren’t selling bargain BSO’s, they sell relatively specialist/niche bikes to an audience who knows what they want and will grow tired of their shenanigans.

As an ex owner of three of their frames I swore never to buy from them ever again, but I might have been swayed one day. Stories of crap QC, non existent CS and bewildering and intentionally confusing pricing have put the nail in the coffin for me.

I think Planet X is probably now being run by Collaterlie Sisters.

This is one of the few websites my company deems unfit for viewing, that saves me from being tempted!

Must be the X in the address.

RustyNissanPrairie – Member
The sooner PX/On-One/brand whoring **** go bust the better…

I disagree.

I have had many great bikes from On-One. Pompinos, an Inbred, and a Scandal. Good design, not flash, perform really well and no competition anywhere near their price.

I can also say much the same for most of the components I have bought.

However I know what I’m looking for, it’s always been obvious that some of their bargains are in the too good to be true category, and I have bought a few of those with varying success.

I’ve always thought their strength is in the niche stuff, like a UK version of Surly, and from my perspective it looks like they are chasing the general market more these days.

Perhaps they should take a leaf out of Surly’s book and innovate a bit more, eg the likes of the Cleland bike would have a market, not huge, but something On-One is well placed to do. Easy enough to test the waters like Surly does with framesets.

I’d agree with all that epicyclo. I also have a fair few frames and components that perform well, are not flashy yet cheap and good. Although because of the random pricing of PX/OO i’m finding Alpkit’s range fulfils that need equally well now.

Related to the other thread, the issue of selling incomplete bikes is a pretty woeful one. Also, they are skating on very thin ice by advertising them under ‘bikes’ when they are clearly not complete or built. It says so on the product page but the advert is a little…misleading. Luckily PX have their own forum guru to defend and deflect any negativity 😐

I agree. Step back, clear the tat, go back to what they did and stay out of the mass market VC financed mad race to the bottom.

Perhaps that’s actually what they are doing?

They can’t go bust – where am I going to get incredibly cheap stems to fine-tune my bikes?

richardthird – Member

I agree. Step back, clear the tat, go back to what they did and stay out of the mass market VC financed mad race to the bottom.

Perhaps that’s actually what they are doing?

I think considering how much Dave loves the race to the bottom, and the head start they have in it, that’s pretty unlikely. And by this time, quite likely impossible or at least incredibly hard, they’d need to basically reboot the entire company- products, staff, brand image. Easier to start a new one. Though even when they take on or launch a new brand, they can’t help themselves, they always rip the arse out of it at the first opportunity.

This is exactly the company On One/PX want to be and they’ve worked hard to get it where it is, from where it was.