$600 for shipping??!!!!??!?!?
10-22-09, 10:50 AM
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$600 for shipping??!!!!??!?!?
So I finally caved in and picked up the Damocles from CC on clearance. Had it sent over to Bongo, my F&F service that I use to get goodies over to my rock-in-the-sea.
The previous time I used it to get a frameset cost me $250 and that is what I was expecting to pay. However, this time, it is $600. Six f*****g hundred bucks for shipping just a frame - no wheels.
Christ. Someone on BF needs to start a bike-forwarding business.
V.
The previous time I used it to get a frameset cost me $250 and that is what I was expecting to pay. However, this time, it is $600. Six f*****g hundred bucks for shipping just a frame - no wheels.
Christ. Someone on BF needs to start a bike-forwarding business.
V.
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10-22-09, 10:54 AM
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Yeah, sorry about that.
Now watch your mouth, mister.
Now watch your mouth, mister.
10-22-09, 10:58 AM
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Call it the "Paradise Tax"
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I live in the great white north (Michigan) and I'm playing my violin over for ya buddy
10-22-09, 11:39 AM
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Time to find a different broker.
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I feel your pain. I often have issues shipping my $4000 bicycles to my private tropical islands in the middle of nowhere.
10-22-09, 11:47 AM
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Why don't you have it shipped somewhere on land, and use picking it up as a partial reason for a trip off the island?
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10-22-09, 11:55 AM
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Hey, that was the sanitized version. The special invective was reserved for when I got that shipping estimate on my screen....
Lol. I wish it was my private island... when I wrote "my", I meant "where I presently live and eke out an existence as a dive bum."
I am. It is still on the other side of the globe, and that's where the big shaft comes in.
Heh, I'm actually trying to find a friend who's willing to bring the bike over in exchange for 7-10 stay, diving, meals on the house and payment for the excess baggage on the bike
If not, I am going to take 26-2's advice here: HTFU and pay for the shipping, and then read EVERY winter cycling thread on BF while gloating a little to myself.
V.
If not, I am going to take 26-2's advice here: HTFU and pay for the shipping, and then read EVERY winter cycling thread on BF while gloating a little to myself.
V.
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10-22-09, 12:00 PM
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Didn't you get the memo ??
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If we can say ass then why can't we say dammit? 
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What are you doing trying to ride a bike on a tropical island anyway? What are you? Some sort of freakish weirdo?
I'd feel really sorry for your $600 freight estimate except that apparently you're a Flyers fan so screw you... How did they ever let you escape from Philly to a tropical island paradise anyways?
P.S. - Go Rangers!
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I'd feel really sorry for your $600 freight estimate except that apparently you're a Flyers fan so screw you... How did they ever let you escape from Philly to a tropical island paradise anyways?
P.S. - Go Rangers!
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