{"id":19,"date":"2009-03-10T10:59:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T17:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gummycarbs.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2009-03-10T10:59:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T17:59:59","slug":"is-theridestopcom-reputable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gummycarbs.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/10\/is-theridestopcom-reputable\/","title":{"rendered":"Is TheRideStop.com Reputable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for an EBC rear rotor for an RD04 Africa Twin, a bike which was never imported into the USA.  No online shops in the country sold them, except, seemingly, one:  TheRideStop.<\/p>\n<p>I put the item in my shopping cart and was shocked to see a shipping price of several hundred dollars.  This alerted me that the site might be a scam.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, I happened to look at the site again.  This time, adding an item resulted in more normal fees.  Something still seemed fishy, so I did a search on the name.  I found only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmwlt.com\/forums\/archive\/index.php\/t-9647.html\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>DON&#8217;T use the Ride Stop! I was just ripped off by them and am having my CC co. charge back the money.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebel250.com\/rebelforum\/viewtopic.php?t=15196&#038;sid=4e686827396fd736295f66e8da5acde6\">this thread<\/a> mentions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Unlike the folks at theridestop.com where I ordered some W&#038;M bags. It&#8217;s been a week now and I still don&#8217;t have a tracking number, let alone my bags! <\/p>\n<p>To boot they stated (after I complained about the lack of shipping confirmation) &#8220;you paid less than anywhere else so this is the trade-off I guess.&#8221; Go figger.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for an EBC rear rotor for an RD04 Africa Twin, a bike which was never imported into the USA. No online shops in the country sold them, except, seemingly, one: TheRideStop. I put the item in my shopping cart and was shocked to see a shipping price of several hundred dollars. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[34,44,45,47,49,50,51],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","tag-fraud","tag-rip-off","tag-ripoff","tag-scam","tag-the-ride-stop","tag-theridestop","tag-theridestopcom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gummycarbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gummycarbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gummycarbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gummycarbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gummycarbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gummycarbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gummycarbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gummycarbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gummycarbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}