Shopping parts using Kymco list & save $

[Stig / Major Tom]

I've found info for the same type of purchases using the Kymco and Vespa/Piaggio parts lists.
What i look for is the size  - say for an O-ring or a bearing.
Often the exact size is in the official parts listing.
I've purchased top quality Japanese bearings for my LIKE on ebay....and gaskets from warehouses, O-rings from China at lower prices and quicker availability. Panel clips of all kinds by the bag on eBay.
 
for example - I can pay over $3 for a Piaggio drain plug O-ring, plus shipping of several dollars - Or I can get 20 of them for $6 from China. Now, maybe Pirelli is making O-rings......but I bet Piaggio is getting them from China, too.
Getting a new drain plug in a Vespa bag from Cyprus  - back-ordered and much more expensive in the USA.
Lots of folks are leery of eBay - but I've been buying thru them since 1999. No issues.

Stig

[randyo]

I have used AliExpress to get bits for my K-Pipe. Most orders arrived quickly 10 days, except my YSS shock, came from Thailand then by water buffalo thru Malasia, to Singapore where it sat in customs before flight to Chicago, where it sat in customs again, about 6 weeks total before it arrived. But that was at peak of covid restrictions. As I said, everything else, 10 days.