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Has anyone ordered directly from the Malossi store before? I put in an order, paid, got an error, and now I have a credit charge and no email confirmation of the order or shipping information.

I filled out a contact forum yesterday, hoping it has either went through or they will get in touch. I just wanted to know anyone else’s experience with them. I figured it would have been better than going through a secondary vendor.

If you're in the United States, you did buy from a secondary vendor. The company that distributes Malossi products in Belgium owns Malossistore for the US, and are not in any other way connected to Malossi. Probably paid more than you would have if you bought it in the United States too.

I bought one. So not looking anymore.

The air-cooled small Kymcos all use variations on the Chinese GY6 base. 

Wrong. Kymco invented the engine. The Chinese "borrowed" it. PGO and SYM also use the engine.

Thanks Neil.  I think a lot of people pass on the X-Town because of the 276 cc motor.

Most people don't pay attention to that. They pass on it for the same reason Kymco stopped importing a lot of scooters. Nobody buys them. The X-Town has the old Reflex, Xciting engine, and the Downtown has a newer High Output engine Kymco designed in-house after they parted ways with Honda.

Hey Guys !

Today I made a long test drive and two issues came up :

1. I have LGE5 clutch - post 2011 model. Clutch engagment RPM is around 2000 which is a little low number by my feeling, I thnik engine is not so happy. I think 3000 RPM would be much better. Clutch disengages at around 2300-2400 when coming down for a stop. At what RPM's clutch enagges in your Kymcos DT 300 ?

2. The power delivery is not smooth at slow accelaration - when coming throu 4500-5500 rpm at throttle open around 50 % I can feel  that acceleration is not constant and something is grabbing a letting bike go in matter of 1-2 seconds. When making start with throttle wide open there is no hesitation with acceleration. Engine runs smooth and there is no misfire , no check engine light.

I think problem is somewhere with  CVT - any suggestions will be much appreciated !

So for reasons that make no sense, you complain about how it performs and your answer is to keep the worn out stock parts and stick the cheapest Chinese sliders in that you could find. And you're surprised that the performance still sucks?

I recently became the proud new owner of an AK550. Someone's decision that it was too much bike was my opportunity.
Because it has less than 1000 miles on it, my inclination was to ride it and see what it needs before I start to modify it. That was until I saw this-

https://scooterpartsco.com/kymco/kymco-ak550/jcosta-variator-for-kymco-ak550

and decided that if it did half of what was claimed, it would be money well pissed away.
It's the JCosta Pro variator. It showed up at my house in less than a week, and everything fit where it was supposed to. But the weather has not cooperated, so I have been able to put a total of maybe 20 minutes on it.
The biggest difference I noticed, in my short jaunts up and down the block  is that the throttle response is even smoother, especially accelerating up from a rolling stop. Even taking off is smoother. I can't wait to see if it really does increase the top speed, but that's not a winter sport.
In hindsight, I wonder if I should have gotten the racing version instead. 

my local dealer ordered a bunch of scooters from Kymco, they told him not available, unless he took a whole container, 80 scooters, that was 7 weeks ago, he's only got a dozen left as of the day I bought mine 10 days ago, and other than mine, they are all fugly green

That's a very strange thing for a dealer to lie about. I've worked with Kymco at the dealer/distributor level, and that's not how it works. Next time you go in, ask him to show you how they fold the scooters in half to get that many into a container.