Yeup.
Yeah every vendor says that it will be about 4 weeks time until they are shipped. Since the process is not that simple you have to break it down.
- After order is received it is placed into the system in order to be produced at the production facilities
- Business works on orders, requests, claims etc. in date order in which they were received. If it has been busy with orders you will be a bit further back on that list.
- Once your part is produced it is packaged and pretty much sits there until they finish the batch of orders to be able to ship a bunch of orders at once. It saves on shipping costs not only for the vendor but on the buyers part as well if you pay shipping costs with a vendor.
- Once the Vendor has received the parts and made sure that there are no obvious defects like cracks, breaks etc, they start shipping out orders to buyers in date order in which they were received.
- At that point you get your product
Don't know how many people know that these products do not grow on trees and takes time to produce the products of orders ahead of you.
To give a bit of perspective on what lead time looks like during Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales (one of the most busy times for Vendors)...
The OP ordered his FRP RS1 fenders on 12/28/15.
Checked up on them 2/19/16
That is just under two months, looking at 5 weeks. I know the OP had tried to cancel the order due to complications with not being in the US at that time, but to use the time frame given and the implication that OP finishes the order to term until products arrive.
I ordered my Carbon Fiber RS1 fenders and Carbon Fiber SS hood with Carbon Fiber splitters on 12/1/15 (Cyber Monday)
I didn't follow up with Lohit until mid-February (roughly 8 weeks) and at that point was just really seeing if they hit production yet because even though vendors say 4 weeks, I know better.
My Fenders got to the Fly1 facility on 2/4/16, but was still waiting on my Carbon Fiber hood due to a longer production time. The Hood was received in the Fly1 Facility on 3/14/16. I received both pieces dropped off at my Shop on 3/16/16
Fenders Total Lead Time: 8 Weeks 4 days
Hood Total Lead Time: 14 weeks 0 days
Total Amount of time until Parts were in my hands: 14 weeks 2 days
I understand that people would like Vendors to have these parts in stock and I would love that too, but the fact that these parts take time to produce, time to be shipped to Fly1 and to the buyer plus on top of it while waiting for the current parts orders you keep receiving more and more orders.
IT CAN TAKE A WHILE TO RECIEVE YOUR PARTS! BE PATIENT!
As you can see due to the numbers shown above, My order is living proof that this stuff takes time to be completed. I ordered my parts at like 7pm PST on Cyber Monday from Lohit and I was stuck at the asss end of the entire Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales.
The Hood and the Fenders that I recently installed within the last two weeks are both immaculate in filament of the carbon fiber and fitment. Very pleased with my order and will make more.
I am one of the people that DE referred to as he "has sent over to Lohit" and to this day I have not been disappointed yet.
