Originally Posted by
wrk101
There really is no such thing as "free shipping." Its buried in the price of the item (90% of my sales on ebay go with "free shipping", I just adjust the price upward). There are several comprehensive discussions on packing and shipping bikes. Miamijim has a nice tutorial on the subject.
+1. I factor $85 into all my 'Buy Now' bicycle prices unless it's an exceptionally expensive bike and then I factor in as much as $125 to cover the special Madone box and extra insurance.
Packaging tutorial:
http://www.bikeforums.net/classic-vi...ike-101-a.html
I working on a new way to package framesets, I found myself needing to ship a frameset while out of town and got creative with a flat screen TV box from Home Depot. I didn't even need to block the dropouts!!