New CTC Shop

Zog The Undeniable said:

Pah. No Schmidt hubs any more and no intention to stock them either,
from the e-mail I've just received. I was hoping to get 10% off seeing
as everyone else sells them at full price :-(

Yes IMO the CTC shop has gone down the pan. What is the point in having
a shop for the club if it does not cater for the Club members?

Luckily the old shop still stock the things we need.

Chris

Quoted message said:

Yes IMO the CTC shop has gone down the pan. What is the point in having
a shop for the club if it does not cater for the Club members?

Fairly understandable for them to not stock stuff that they won't be able
to shift - no point in our membership subsidising the shop I s'pose.

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Quoted message said:

Yes IMO the CTC shop has gone down the pan. What is the point in having
a shop for the club if it does not cater for the Club members?

Fairly understandable for them to not stock stuff that they won't be able
to shift - no point in our membership subsidising the shop I s'pose.

Question is were they shifting schmidts? I got one or two (or maybe three,
otoh that one might have been from kinetics) from there...

cheers,
clive

Mark Thompson said:

Quoted message said:

Yes IMO the CTC shop has gone down the pan. What is the point in having
a shop for the club if it does not cater for the Club members?

Fairly understandable for them to not stock stuff that they won't be able
to shift - no point in our membership subsidising the shop I s'pose.

The shop people running the shop buy the right to use the CTC brand.
Currently its is Evans
(which is sad IMO

Peter

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Zog The Undeniable said:

Pah. No Schmidt hubs any more and no intention to stock them either,
from the e-mail I've just received. I was hoping to get 10% off seeing
as everyone else sells them at full price :-(

Yes IMO the CTC shop has gone down the pan. What is the point in having a
shop for the club if it does not cater for the Club members?

Luckily the old shop still stock the things we need.

Chris

The CTC should be made aware that the new shop is not coming up to members'
expectations. Now it is Evans, I'm not overly impressed.

Cheers, helen s

wafflycat said:

The CTC should be made aware that the new shop is not coming up to members'
expectations. Now it is Evans, I'm not overly impressed.

What have been your problems with it?

I'm thinking of making an order.

John B

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wafflycat said:

The CTC should be made aware that the new shop is not coming up to members'
expectations. Now it is Evans, I'm not overly impressed.

What have been your problems with it?

I'm thinking of making an order.

I suppose it depends on what you see the purpose of the CTC shop.

whilst it used to have much smaller range it did stock some bits useful
to touring (and other cyclists) that could be bit harder to find. The
current outsourced version (wasn't it done by another shop before? -
and previously, in house?)) has much larger range, though nothing
really seemed to differentiate it from any other mail order operation
(other than the obvious CTC connection) I would guess that it makes more
money for the CTC, but less of service really, and that is a reasonable
tack for the CTC to take I guess. Though I can see why some would
disagree.

--
Chris French, Leeds

Chris Gerhard said:

Luckily the old shop still stock the things we need.

Is there a link to the old shop? Presumably too the CTC discount no
longer applies?

--
Dave...

chris French said:

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wafflycat said:

The CTC should be made aware that the new shop is not coming up to members'
expectations. Now it is Evans, I'm not overly impressed.

What have been your problems with it?

I'm thinking of making an order.

I suppose it depends on what you see the purpose of the CTC shop.

To buy goods?

I am interested as to what poor service has led wafflycat to express her displeasure.

No answer as yet though.

John B

dkahn400 said:

Is there a link to the old shop? Presumably too the CTC discount no
longer applies?

That is the problem.

http://www.bikeplus.co.uk by the way.

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Quoted message said:

The CTC should be made aware that the new shop is not coming up to members'
expectations. Now it is Evans, I'm not overly impressed.

I just read the CTC weekly message which included a suggestion to view
the range of Brook saddles available at the CTC shop.

So I did.

All I could find was a B17 in standard and narrow widths. It didn't
seem much of a range !

Tim

Zog The Undeniable said:

dkahn400 said:

Is there a link to the old shop? Presumably too the CTC discount no
longer applies?

That is the problem.

http://www.bikeplus.co.uk by the way.

Thanks for the link, Zog. As it happens their shop is in Croydon, which
is not a great distance from Sutton, and I popped in there yesterday to
buy a SON hub over the counter. Interestingly when I asked about this
they flatly denied that they ever offered a discount to CTC members
even when they did run the CTC shop.

--
Dave...

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Zog The Undeniable said:

dkahn400 said:

Is there a link to the old shop? Presumably too the CTC discount no
longer applies?

That is the problem.

http://www.bikeplus.co.uk by the way.

Thanks for the link, Zog. As it happens their shop is in Croydon, which
is not a great distance from Sutton, and I popped in there yesterday to
buy a SON hub over the counter. Interestingly when I asked about this
they flatly denied that they ever offered a discount to CTC members
even when they did run the CTC shop.

--
Dave...

Whatever; they still provide a good service at a good price. I tend to check
on the website then ordedr over the phone where they have always been goo at
answering queries (usually about sizing). As far as i can remember all stuff
ordered has arrived next day.

Julia