{"id":22634,"date":"2024-03-01T10:33:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T09:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=22634"},"modified":"2024-03-01T10:33:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T09:33:14","slug":"i-cant-believe-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/i-cant-believe-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I can’t believe this"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just can’t seem to catch a break at the moment. After all the messing about yesterday with the Chinese supplier (which I now bitterly regret as I’m about to explain), when I had a few moments to spare I took another look at the e-bikes that are on offer on Cdiscount, the French web site which I’ve used quite a bit with considerable success. And know what, this is what I found – although the name’s different it’s instantly recognisable as yet another cloned Keteles K800.<\/p>\n

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But look at the price – 1099\u20ac. If you read the ad you can see that this bike is identical to the two motor, 2000W 48V one for 1298\u20ac without rear suspension that the Chinese supplier said was out of stock. But it gets even better (or worse depending on how you look at it) when you dig deeper and check on its full price including delivery. You’ll probably have to click on the following image to see the figures.<\/p>\n

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I took the screenshot today and the delivery charge is only 20\u20ac. Yesterday when I saw the ad for the first time it was 50\u20ac, so today you can have the bike delivered in about a week for the princely sum of only 1119\u20ac. So now how do I feel about the price of 1360\u20ac that I agreed yesterday with the Chinese seller?<\/p>\n

Sure, my new bike will have rear suspension and upgraded front forks, but do I think they’re worth 241\u20ac? No I certainly do not, especially as I could have had this bike within a week whereas I’m now committed to waiting weeks for my new bike to be delivered. To say I’m feeling sick this morning is an understatement \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just can’t seem to catch a break at the moment. After all the messing about yesterday with the Chinese supplier (which I now bitterly regret as I’m about to explain), when I had a few moments to spare I took another look at the e-bikes that are on offer on Cdiscount, the French web … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22634"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22641,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22634\/revisions\/22641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}