GOOD ONLINE MERCHANTS

Online merchants that have successfully shipped items to India.

Rates/Experiences

www.blueskycycling.com

Ship to India
$50-00 – $99.98 shipping charge – $ 54.98
$100.00 – $149.98 shipping charge – $ 74.98
$150 – more shipping charge – $99.98

If package exceeds 20lbs shipping will be subjected to a higher cost.

www.evanscycles.com

ship to India for free if the cost of the order placed is over and above 65 GBP (British Pounds)

have been ordering regularly from Evans. They are pretty fast and shipping is free for orders over 50 Pound Sterling. I have found them reliable and they also have a good return policy. This is important when you are first ordering stuff like clothes, shoes. They also have a good sizing guide.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/

Shipping cost to India
lights, gloves, jerseys, helmets, spares, handlebars etc – ~$15
bikes- ~$230
frames ~$115
forks,wheels ~$52
tyres ~ $30

Good service, often times their prices are lower than others including shipping.

My experience with ordinary mail has been bad. EMS works very well and has tracking but might require a trip to the foreign parcel post office if your parcel is big/expensive. At chainreaction one can specify if they want delivery by UPS. UPS works very well and shipping itself is sometimes a bit cheaper than EMS, but they charge ridiculous arbitration (or whatever they call it) fees and the customs duty applied was way above the ‘book’ price (which is 13+6+2 percent for bicycles and bicycle parts according to the big book at the post office, whatever that means).

http://wiggle.co.uk

200 GBP is the minimum order for you to qualify for free shipping to India; otherwise it is something like 7 plus GBP for worldwide delivery. If you log in and create an account, you get all details. Pretty trustworthy and recommended. Very professional in their dealings

My package arrived with a stamp “Opened by Customs”. No duty was charged even when the original invoice was enclosed. Total value of my order was around GBP 61.00 all was charged via Visa card.

What’s nice about Wiggle’s on-line shopping is, you set your shipping destination “India” and start loading your cart. As you go on adding items to the basket, the shipping costs you will be charged will be shown at the bottom of the page and the total due will be the total amount is what will be charged to your card. Period. In my case, when
I checked out, the shipping cost that was shown was GBP 7.45. The actual however, which was on the box, was GBP 8.70. My card was not charged anything extra. Whatever differences between actual and estimated shipping is absorbed by Wiggle. This is what they confirmed by email later.

all info from this thread on BangaloreBikersClub or this thread from ChennaiBikers