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Shipping costs.
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Crap, I knew there was something I was suppose to do.:cower:
The guy that sold the engine drained it before I picked it up.:encouragement:
Yeah, shipping costs. I understand. I wish if I were trying to give something away they would discount the rate though, LOL. It's hard to share stuff with other members when we're spread all over the globe and not take a hit on shipping.
Just trying to give away an old Haynes manual, shipped to Canada mind you, was going to be $25-$30! For an old semi faded and highlighted book that's kinda high. Needless to say I still have it...
Just trying to give away an old Haynes manual, shipped to Canada mind you, was going to be $25-$30! For an old semi faded and highlighted book that's kinda high. Needless to say I still have it...
The trick is to find the slow-boat routes.
I bought a rear wheel, complete with disc, drive hub and tyre, from Seattle a few years ago, on ebay.com
I was surprised to see it listed cheaply ($25) and cheap shipping to Ireland ($25).
It took over two months to reach me, as it wound its way around N.America, waiting for empty space on some van / truck / plane that happened to be going in vaguely the right direction. Eventually it came across the pond, landing in Frankfurt, then Birmingham, then Dublin and finally UPS turned up at my door with it.
I was quite keen to open the box to make sure it was undamaged, because in all its travels it was quite possible it had been run over, dropped or blown up.
Insofar as I recall, the sender was a breaker who knew about the cheap shipping options and how to access them.
Same applies to USPS - go to their website and get a quote.
Never believe the first quote; dig deeper and you'll find a lower rate, just that it might be a different category or take longer. For non-perishable parts, who cares how long it takes?
Same applies to a lot of shippers; there's a slowcoach option somewhere, as they'd rather have some low-paying items taking up empty space than nothing at all.
I bought a rear wheel, complete with disc, drive hub and tyre, from Seattle a few years ago, on ebay.com
I was surprised to see it listed cheaply ($25) and cheap shipping to Ireland ($25).
It took over two months to reach me, as it wound its way around N.America, waiting for empty space on some van / truck / plane that happened to be going in vaguely the right direction. Eventually it came across the pond, landing in Frankfurt, then Birmingham, then Dublin and finally UPS turned up at my door with it.
I was quite keen to open the box to make sure it was undamaged, because in all its travels it was quite possible it had been run over, dropped or blown up.
Insofar as I recall, the sender was a breaker who knew about the cheap shipping options and how to access them.
Same applies to USPS - go to their website and get a quote.
Never believe the first quote; dig deeper and you'll find a lower rate, just that it might be a different category or take longer. For non-perishable parts, who cares how long it takes?
Same applies to a lot of shippers; there's a slowcoach option somewhere, as they'd rather have some low-paying items taking up empty space than nothing at all.
aye-similar to Grimly's...in Canada I always use the online app from Canada Post and I had to dig deep to get it into the hold of a ship...which by the way is a big part of what China does. With so many ships coming here from there, yet another ten containers is bulk cheap, I guess, versus a few sacks of Canadian Post to Eire maybe... And no denying, internally their wages are cheaper on the way to the dock versus delivery here
As to subsidy, WE used to subsidise Canada Post but apparently it makes a profit now, so there's some added cost...
But, it's getting harder using Canada Post. The recent redesign is everymore streamlined to milk "JoeBlow" so it may pay nowadays to investigate a Business account there..businesses are obviously getting a better rate from what I can see.
As to subsidy, WE used to subsidise Canada Post but apparently it makes a profit now, so there's some added cost...
But, it's getting harder using Canada Post. The recent redesign is everymore streamlined to milk "JoeBlow" so it may pay nowadays to investigate a Business account there..businesses are obviously getting a better rate from what I can see.
There's a couple of members here from Ireland. I'm about to fly over at the end of this month to Dublin!
My input is this...there must be cheaper methods to ship across the pond. I bought a Suzuki banner on eBay that was shipped from Russia. The banner cost me $42 and shipping was about $20. It took about a month to arrive so I was pleasantly surprised that I had to goto local post office to pick it up.
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My input is this...there must be cheaper methods to ship across the pond. I bought a Suzuki banner on eBay that was shipped from Russia. The banner cost me $42 and shipping was about $20. It took about a month to arrive so I was pleasantly surprised that I had to goto local post office to pick it up.
Ed
