[Price Error] Carbon Wheelset 40mm Tubulars $248.99 (down from $2,343) @ Wiggle

LSirFrugal on 15/10/2020 - 19:20
Last edited 19/10/2020 - 17:36 by 2 other users

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Vision TriMax Carbon 40 Tubular Wheelset.

Carbon wheelset for 89% off!

It is tubular though, not clincher nor tubeless. I only realised this after I purchased it. This means new tyres to go with the wheelset and a major pain if I get a puncture on the side of the road. Wiggle also have a sale on their Vittoria Corsa tubulars as well.

But still, 40mm carbon wheels for $250 (cheaper than unbranded AliExpress wheels)! $250 meets the free delivery amount as well.

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franco cozzo on 15/10/2020 - 19:26

yeh nah…theyll cancel all their stuff ups.way too many orders for them to not notice
- damion on 15/10/2020 - 19:28
  
  I put a non-discount item in my cart as well…. I wonder if they'll still honour the free shipping if the other items are all cancelled.
[Deactivated] on 15/10/2020 - 19:30

+2

Will these fit on my Ute?
- Mel-waukee on 15/10/2020 - 19:46
  
  +1
  
  Only if you fit 4 on every wheel
PotPlant on 15/10/2020 - 19:31

Wow, crazy prices. What's going on at wiggle????
Weird that if you put the shipping destination to Thailand then the price becomes a more normal $1000++.

Maybe its a legit sale. Who knows.
Still, even so, i found tubulars just too annoying, not worth the hassle.
funk44 on 15/10/2020 - 19:33

No way this is legit…

Edit: Im having a crack anyway as I'm due for some new wheels under 50mm
Drakesy on 15/10/2020 - 19:33

jaysus thats cheap.
Looks like Wiggle's broken their site
Though tubulars :(
DoesntEvenMatter on 15/10/2020 - 19:34

+2

the cancellations are coming
cynicalmike on 15/10/2020 - 19:34

did they get hacked? looks like it, or a disgruntled employee.

either way, around $250 might be honoured.
- ShoeyAU on 15/10/2020 - 20:04
  
  if they did get hacked, submitting credit card details on their website probably isn't such a good idea :D
  
  but I still ordered anyway.
  - cynicalmike on 15/10/2020 - 20:06
    
    +1
    
    me too, after using shopback for so many years i just love to prostitute out my personal details for a possible bargain.
beanlanda on 15/10/2020 - 19:42

+2

No chance on this one.
ShoeyAU on 15/10/2020 - 19:51

+1

Ordered anyway - free dice roll.

I think it might have a small chance of being honored - the disc version is reviewed at £869 https://www.cyclingweekly.com/reviews/wheels/vision-trimax-c… which is well below the wiggle stated 'original price' of $2.3K and this one is rim brake. They might be getting rid of the stock?

And if it does come thru it means paying LBS for tubs & fitting and carbon pads so i think the whole thing would end up costing closer to $400-500?
- funk44 on 15/10/2020 - 20:04
  
  +2
  
  I bought some as I was already eyeing off some new Hunts or Light Bicycle wheels so even if I have to fork out another couple hundred or so to the LBS for new tyres and fitting then i'll be way ahead of what I was going to be paying
  - thirtysixd on 15/10/2020 - 20:58
    
    +1
    
    If the order fails hunts are just rebranded chinas so might as well skip the middle man there
    I forget the name but think it starts with K
    
    Light bicycle are great (as are others like farsport, yoeleo etc)
    - funk44 on 15/10/2020 - 21:08
      
      I've heard that a few times about Hunt, TrainerRoad forums don't speak to highly about them either. In reality I had a pair a Light Bicycles wheels built up that I was waiting to pull the trigger on. If this falls though (very likely) then i'll pull the trigger on those
      - PotPlant on 15/10/2020 - 22:18
        
        @funk44: Where did you order the Light bicycle wheels from exactly, to have them built up? You didn't have to "pull the trigger" first, before having them built? Never heard of them and want to check them out!
        
        gotoadgo on 16/10/2020 - 07:02
        
        +2
        
        @PotPlant: I'd say he means built up on the site itself. You pick all your specs on the site, then once you've paid the wheels are made to that. The website itselfis just https://www.lightbicycle.com/
        
        funk44 on 16/10/2020 - 09:56
        
        @PotPlant: What gotoadgo said. If you have specific requirements (i.e. a different hub from what is on their site) you can email them for a quote as well. Heard nothing but good things about their wheels across multiple forums and their pricing is excellent so it is well worth looking into
        
        PotPlant on 17/10/2020 - 16:44
        
        @funk44: Thanks guys @gotoadgo @funk44 This is great info. Thanks.
thirtysixd on 15/10/2020 - 20:00

+1

Spank stuff is way too cheap too

I ordered a few wheelsets and some forks in several orders.

Couldnt find anything useable for roady unfortunately :(

Might post here if I get refunded
- inamberclad on 15/10/2020 - 20:08
  
  Sounds like you've ordered enough to start up your own local bike shop
  - cynicalmike on 15/10/2020 - 20:15
    
    Spank stuff is way too cheap too
    
    or sex dungeon
Willco88 on 15/10/2020 - 20:07

I've already ordered the bike bag that's enough for me
Bernie inn on 15/10/2020 - 20:15

I ordered some vision metron 30 disc wheels for $100 I’ll let you know if it’s honoured
2ndeffort on 15/10/2020 - 20:29

I kept adding stuff to my cart but it was being sold quicker than I could get to checkout. Missed out on all the awesome wheels deals
- franco cozzo on 15/10/2020 - 20:46
  
  +1
  
  ….theyve probably been looted for $x00,000. of price errors…no way known theyre gonna let these orders thru
  - Telios on 16/10/2020 - 02:48
    
    +1
    
    I mean it's easily in the millions.
    
    $3000+ wheel sets going for <$300, thousand dollar tool sets for $60.
    
    Only takes about 1000 sets of carbon wheels at those loss levels before you are in the red by millions.
    
    I can't imagine any of these getting approved, it's more surprising that whoever does their IT hasn't taken the site down or removed a huge number of listings.
    - franco cozzo on 16/10/2020 - 06:40
      
      yeh…its a major stuff up alright. also surprised they didnt pull the affected categories
bogpopa on 15/10/2020 - 20:50

Gone already …
"This item is not currently available"
TEER3X on 15/10/2020 - 21:37

Haven't found anything I need from these "sales"

I need to go out more and do more adventurous things
SirFrugal on 15/10/2020 - 22:23

Hoping it's not a price error - heaps of wheels were seriously reduced, didn't look like a one off thing.

Go to their 'outlet' page and click sort by discount, you'll see heaps of items that are >90% off. That being said, most are sold out and the show in-stock only filter doesn't really work.

Most wheels were sold out by the time I looked at them though; these were still available (looks like no longer available), and I'm assuming this was due to them being tubular and less popular.
- cryptos on 15/10/2020 - 23:13
  
  +2
  
  Some wheelsets are marked down from $2900+ to $40.. can’t imagine it’s not a pricing error
  - Telios on 16/10/2020 - 02:51
    
    +1
    
    Yeah it's absolutely an error.
    
    Park tool sets their pricing by country themselves, they aren't going to approve a 90% price drop on a range of their current top of the line tools.
    
    Having said that I will puke bile if anyone receives a full kit for $40 when my BB49 adaptor cost me around that much by itself.
sheikyerbouti on 16/10/2020 - 05:38

+5

Refund received - oh well it was worth a try
SirFrugal on 16/10/2020 - 12:38

-1

Yep, pricing error. Received refund.
Annoying. What a major screw up, there would have been hundreds if not thousands of price errors.
Wiggle are going to have a lot of disgruntled customers.
- DoesntEvenMatter on 16/10/2020 - 13:23
  
  Did it really surprise you? Price errors from bunnings are the only ones worth it lol
- franco cozzo on 16/10/2020 - 13:28
  
  -1
  
  wiggle are not going to crap is whats going to happen….
PotPlant on 16/10/2020 - 14:24

+2

My imaginary wheels arrived last night! In my dreams!
Ah well, at least they were quick to organise refunds.
At least they got that bit right. Their website was a complete mess though, hard to understand how that happened on such a large scale. There is a difference between a once off pricing error on one item, and what happened at wiggle.
It was easy to entertain the thought that they were going bust and had to move some stock at heavily discounted prices, because there were just so many stuff-ups.
- SirFrugal on 17/10/2020 - 01:28
  
  I got majorly screwed. I bought the tubular wheels and they've cancelled and refunded that.
  I made a second purchase on tubular tires (I didn't want to miss out on stock so quickly made the wheel purchase).
  As soon as they cancelled my wheels, I tried to cancel my now useless tubular tires. Website says it's too late, already being purchased. I get an email saying it's too late.
  So, it's not too late when they screw up with price error to cancel, but it's too late to cancel … an order that was actually placed after the first order that was cancelled.
  Now I have to do the BS returns rigmarole and go to the post office in COVID and potentially pay for the return postage - that would be the icing on the cake.
  Never buying from Wiggle again that's for sure. They've gone done hill hard lately. Upped the free shipping amount and stock is generally no longer the best price.
  I should just really stick with Pushys and Bikebug, local, just as cheap, lower free delivery limit and bloody quick.
  - DoesntEvenMatter on 17/10/2020 - 02:35
    
    +2
    
    Bahahaha don't try to exploit a obvious price error next time waiting alot of their time in the process and making it alot bigger when you posted it.
    
    Icing would be they not actually being required to accept the return since its for "change of mind" I think it's called Karma Sir 😅
    - 2ndeffort on 17/10/2020 - 10:30
      
      disagree, they clearly offered those items for sale at that price. Its a fair assumption that it was a price error but go back through the archives here and you'll find people that have bought stuff at 90+% off for any one of a number of reasons. I dont think it is unreasonable for them to have to refund the tubs as well.
      - 8azinga on 17/10/2020 - 16:34
        
        @2ndeffort: While the office was cancelling all the price errors, the warehouse would still be packaging all the normal orders. You can cancel orders online up until they start processing them so the tubs were likely already packed and could even have been taken by the postage service which is the reason he has to go through the returns process now. Fair call from wiggle. Do you expect them to sort through thousands of packages to find 1 because they don't want it anymore?
        
        2ndeffort on 17/10/2020 - 16:45
        
        +1
        
        @8azinga: so because of their pricing error fiasco SirFrugal has to pay for return postage because he didnt see through their price errors before they did and decline from buying? Good conscience they should say that the items have already been posted but because their pricing errors lead to this situation they will cover the return postage.
        
        8azinga on 17/10/2020 - 16:53
        
        @2ndeffort: Jumping the gun aren't you? He hasn't even gone through the returns process so he doesn't even know if he has to pay return postage.
        
        SirFrugal on 17/10/2020 - 18:51
        
        -1
        
        @8azinga: First of all, it's not because I don't 'want' it anymore. It's because the second order is useless to me because they cancelled the first order due to their error.
        Do I expect them to go out of the way to fix out a problem that they caused? Yes. They have not offered any token of apology to anyone due their error, so the least they can do is to sort this out.
        This wasn't an obvious pricing error that was exploited..The second order had components on sale circa 50% off, which was honoured. Some products have been sold around 90% off before. The product sold at 90% was sold under the outlet section - where prices are expected to be heavily discounted.
        
        8azinga on 18/10/2020 - 19:48
        
        @SirFrugal: There is no way you could have thought there wasn't a chance it was a price error. The first wiggle post was was 4 hours before you posted this one and there were comments about price errors in that early on. Some items were over 99.5% discount and even if a company was going out of business, they would never sell brand new recently released products for that much of a discount when they would have easily sold for 50%.
        
        You made a choice to by purchasing more products before waiting to see if the price error would be honoured.
        
        Cant you use paypal to pay for return shipping anyway? The only 2 options for payment were credit card and paypal so there is no reason to not use paypal.
  - inamberclad on 17/10/2020 - 05:04
    
    Did you contact them? Pretty poor response from wiggle if their customer service said that :\
    - SirFrugal on 17/10/2020 - 18:45
      
      Yeah, 2 emails saying it's been 'processed' and will need to go through refund process.
      Their only policy says refund shipping needs to be paid for, but I'm hoping, HOPING, that they'll cover that.
  - PotPlant on 17/10/2020 - 16:40
    
    +2
    
    Man, I completely sympathize with you. I would be frustrated too. This was NOT a case of one item that had a price error, this was site wide. There were hundreds of items heavily discounted and it so it was very easy to think this might have been a legit fire sale or something, or that Wiggle was going bust, or that it even was just a price error but that it might be honored. Anyway, I am with you. I'd be frustrated. At the end of the day, its their mistake, but you are the one stuck with the problem now. :(
    - SirFrugal on 17/10/2020 - 18:43
      
      +1
      
      Yeah for sure, I thought it was a legit sale - it was under the 'outlet' section afterall.
      And all the stuff they had at a low price seemed deliberate, like it wasn't the entire range, but specific colourways, etc. so it looked like they had too much of one type of stock.
      Anyway, last 'purchase' from Wiggle. Will be getting the tires 'refunded' even though right now, the status is still saying it hasn't been delivered yet. They better at least pay for the refund shipping.
Willco88 on 17/10/2020 - 18:51

Cancelled and refunded pretty quickly so all good
franco cozzo on 17/10/2020 - 19:33

+3

…save yourselves the bother next time, shop elsewhere
wiggle & crc's days are done….5-10 years ago great, now not good

[Price Error] Carbon Wheelset 40mm Tubulars $248.99 (down from $2,343) @ Wiggle

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