[rescue] Re: Re: large lot I2s

[Robert Novak]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 12:09:21PM -0800, Robert Novak wrote:
> 
> > They're a pain to ship, I can tell you. 40 pounds each, plus the packing
> > materials... MBE charged about $30-35 to pack them up, and UPS ground was
> > $30ish to the US, $40ish to Canada. I sent a couple of these out in the
> > last month or so.
> 
> That bad huh?  Someone is getting ripped then because there is a lone I2 
> listed elsewhere w/ fixed shipping of $25.

Could be. Look up 43 pounds from 94538 on your favorite shipper's site.  
Fedex Ground to 02134 (my typical random zip code--send it to Zoom!) for
24x24x18 box home delivery wants $28.36 for from the online quote system.
UPS ground service says $39.25 (dimensional weight applies, billable
weight: 54 pounds). USPS parcel post says $106.31 because of oversize
stature ((24*4)+18=114, so it's the highest oversize bracket).

Might be cheaper from Fedex or UPS if you have a commercial account... or
Airborne on contract. On the other hand, the local MBE wanted $71 to ship
via UPS ground, plus packaging cost of $35ish, so that's getting ripped
even more.

> So, if you picked them up, it would be $60-$65 to you for
> distribution, plus whatever to the actual buyer?

Yeah, to the seller that is, that's probably about right. The big part of
the pain last time was fitting two of them, boxed up, into my Saturn since
the van was full :)

If people are interested, drop me a note offlist and I'll tally the
interest up. I just put a bid in and got outbid instantly. Whee. Might not
be a slam dunk :)

And for those of you who asked about the I2s I got a week or two ago...
still haven't tested them, as I've been working on other stuff. Sigh.

--Rob
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