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Originally Posted by USMCASA
any chance you meeting me in roanoke rapids nc for full asking price?
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Still need to rent a truck and figure at $0.89/mile for the rental + minimum price and fuel. That'll bring you over $1k pretty quick. If you have a truck or know someone that'll let you borrow one I would strongly recommend going that route and coming here.
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Originally Posted by Dave N
I strongly suggest against using Greyhound. I just shipped a Z32 TT front bumper cover from Santa Ana, CA to Minneapolis - I only went with G/H because that's what the buyer wanted me to use (to save money I presume): $76 in cost.
Counter clerk tells me it'll take about 3 ~ 4 days to get there. I ask if there's a tracking number and get a blank stare. Grab my receipt and head back to the office. Go online and see that my receipt has a waybill number that can be used to track the shipment. I enter the number and get "no info found". For the next two days, I check the tracking info and get the same message.
After 3 days, I call Greyhound and get put on perpetual hold. I send an email asking for info on tracking the shipment and have yet to get an email reply. In the meantime, the buyer is getting impatient. The following day, I call again to Greyhound and finally get through. I'm now told that the shipment will take between 7 - 10 business days and that because I'm sending an automobile bumper, it could take even longer depending on available space. I ask how can I track this shipment and she tells me they haven't fully implemented their tracking system yet, so I need to call back every few days (she left out the part about I'll be left waiting on perpetual hold every time I call - I'm sure that it slipped her mind). All she could tell me was that the bumper cover left Santa Ana but she can't tell me where it is now....
Dave
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Thanks for the heads up. I usually try to take the best route possible in terms of safety for the part and for each party. However, if someone REALLY wanted it that bad and was willing to pay the extra expense in having me box it and ship it, they'd be well warned and my responsibility for the part would end when it leaves in greyhounds hands as it is not any preferred method of shipment I would ever advise to use. Hence, the local sale.