Originally Posted by
werewolf
Wonder what the shipping costs of a bike frame are from Brooklyn to New Zealand, and who's paying, Peter or you? By the way, when I ordered my Swift from Peter oh six years ago or something I think, it came with with defective bolt holes, and despite the warranty I had to pay the shipping back to NY from AZ, but peter said that what he'd do for me was exchange my aluminum frame for a new steel one when it went into production, but I guess it never did (I haven't been following the updates here in recent years, and in fact just recently went back to riding).
As for the inherent inevitability of aluminum cracking, I don't know. DC-3's are made of aluminum and many of them built in the 1930's are still flying.
I paid for the shipping of the replacement frame. This seems like the correct thing to me. For example, if we were in the same city and I drove my car to pick up a replacement frame under the guarantee, I would not expect to be reimbursed for fuel. The shipping of goods falls to the customer, it's their choice. I suppose there may be cases where the vendor also pays for shipping. For example if I returned an item of clothing due to size reasons, I pay the shipping back to the vendor but they would ship me a replacement free of charge.