Shipping Costs

[monsterthompson]

I recently was selling a ProTec Contego bass case. It was ~20 years old, so I wanted to sell it cheap and quick, not try to gouge anybody. Offered it for $65.

An interested buyer asked if I would ship it, so I started investigating the price to send an empty gig bag from AZ to WY.

Even using a budget freight consolidator like Pirate Ship, it would have cost as much as the sale price (!) …and that was only *if* I didn’t box it, just wrapped it in a contractor’s garbage bag and strapping tape.

If I actually packed it in a corrugated cardboard box it would have been over $130 to ship it!!!

Fortunately a local buyer picked it up before I had to give the WY guy the bad news.

Sounds like a “implied weight” (or whatever they call it) problem where the volume of object is a bigger factor than the number on the scale. Big objects take up space in the shipping vehicles.

I’ve definitely considered not selling certain items just to avoid the cost and headache of shipping and the possibility of scam transactions and low ball offers. I’ve got a bicycle I’m considering donating to a charity just to get it gone. 20 years ago I’d have found a way to cram it in a box and ship it, and the cost of shipping wouldn’t have been a prohibitive factor.

 

[blacktocomm]

BP is not wrong though…

Truth was spoken.

No politics should mean no politics. I don’t care if you’re left or right. Go to Facebook if you want to rant your political opinions.

 

[Bob_Ross]

Sounds like a “implied weight” (or whatever they call it) problem where the volume of object is a bigger factor than the number on the scale. Big objects take up space in the shipping vehicles.

“Dimensional Weight” is the term I’ve heard used; basically it doesn’t matter if it only weighs 10lbs, if it’s, oh, say >63 total linear inches (length+width+height) then it gets billed as if it’s ~50lbs!

 

[5StringBlues]

No politics should mean no politics. I don’t care if you’re left or right. Go to Facebook if you want to rant your political opinions.

The problem is, unless the quotes are deleted, the original statements are still here to read.


Which defeats the purpose of deleting the original statements.

 

[Speedbird]

^ Length x Width x Height (In inches) divided by 366 = standard 1:1 weight by volume in kilograms. x 2.23 to convert KG to LB

(Sorry, my company uses Inches and kilograms)

 

[FRoss6788]

No politics should mean no politics. I don’t care if you’re left or right. Go to Facebook if you want to rant your political opinions.

You are correct, the last sentence, the only political one, should be deleted.

The rest of the post are simply facts, nothing political about it.