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Other Resources => Component Deals & Selection => Topic started by: Rapac on November 02, 2026, 05:33:14 PM

Title: Aliexpress - This product can't be shipped to your address (France).
Post by: Rapac on November 02, 2026, 05:33:14 PM
Hey everyone, is it me or there are more and more products that are not shipped to France anymore ? When i change my address to Germany or Italy i could order it.
i noticed that mostly on carbon cranks with/without powermeters and electronic groupset (ltwoo/whaleroad).

Example pp5 crankset (https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005010785073577.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.5.c6a431fbDhmCtJ&algo_pvid=656eb291-9068-4c53-a8cd-ac4645c23501&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22order%22%3A%2218%22%2C%22eval%22%3A%221%22%2C%22fromPage%22%3A%22search%22%7D&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch%7Cquery_from%3A%7Cx_object_id%3A1005010785073577%7C_p_origin_prod%3A)

I've read some other french Chinertown users reporting it but does anyone knows more about this restriction ?
Title: Re: Aliexpress - This product can't be shipped to your address (France).
Post by: Serge_K on November 03, 2026, 06:34:45 AM
Maybe try superbuy.com. I received my first box yesterday, as recommended by someone else on the forum. Shipping is still super expensive, but you circumvent a bunch of shenanigans.
It's a process, but it seems to work.
I'm turning into an old man who's angry at the government, and the current EU taxation on everything Chinese really, really pisses me off.
Title: Re: Aliexpress - This product can't be shipped to your address (France).
Post by: kbernstein on November 03, 2026, 01:43:55 PM
yup, i've complained about that before and was going to complain again because i plan on getting carbon cranks this 11/11 sale. apparently the french government restricted the sale of untested carbon cranks

if there are enough of us, wouldn't it be beneficial to plan a group buy?

cyclegears and pandapodium both used to carry bigrock cranks i'm pretty sure, but they've apparently been pulled off the site  ???
Title: Re: Aliexpress - This product can't be shipped to your address (France).
Post by: Serge_K on November 03, 2026, 04:06:12 PM
Quote from: kbernstein on <strong>Today</strong> at 01:43:55 PMif there are enough of us, wouldn't it be beneficial to plan a group buy?

I doubt that will ever make sense because shipping anything across the EU quickly costs 50 eur, but just in case, i'm in the market for a carbon crank, 165mm, with 52/36 and or 54/40. I expect to buy it via superbuy, and buy a bunch of other stuff at the same time, like handcuffs and dild0s.