[rescue] Re: No Pickup (was: MTI DAS9000 disk array)

[James Lockwood]

On Wed, 8 May 2002, Rick Hamell wrote:

> 	The on that ticked me off is that the shipper would ONLY ship DHL
> 2nd day service. For 4 4GB hard drives, $40 Shipping charge, in addition
> to the $10 each I paid for them. But, my fault for not asking the shipping
> charges up front, it was specified in the fine print on the auction. :(

When I bought my E450 chassis on Ebay (shipped from Baltimore to San
Francisco) I emailed the seller asking for a shipment quote.  He said
"$75".  I bid and won, I was expecting something closer to $150.

To his credit, the seller stuck with that figure even after he realized
that it couldn't go by UPS and that he had to buy a rigid container and
ship by freight.  I got the chassis a week later, working perfectly.  Got
a neat hardshell crate with a multi-ton bursting pressure for free out of
the deal.

-James