shp & insurance precautions -
12-27-2005, 05:55 PM
#1
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shp & insurance precautions -
just to relay a recent experience and stress the importance of insuring the items you ship
we got in an S4 with a PERFECT dash! was sold to a 'lister, packed and shipped
this is how it arrived, it was packed very well and INSURED for FULL COST CUSTOMER PAID
without proper insurance this would be a complete nightmare and loss on our end.. I know many of us here ship items to each other on a regular basis, some times without considering insurance.. so heads up
hopefully this will only take a month to get reimbursed, but meantime the customer no longer has his dash replacement and as you know, these are not easy to find
we got in an S4 with a PERFECT dash! was sold to a 'lister, packed and shipped
this is how it arrived, it was packed very well and INSURED for FULL COST CUSTOMER PAID
without proper insurance this would be a complete nightmare and loss on our end.. I know many of us here ship items to each other on a regular basis, some times without considering insurance.. so heads up
hopefully this will only take a month to get reimbursed, but meantime the customer no longer has his dash replacement and as you know, these are not easy to find
Last edited by rixter; 12-27-2005 at 06:17 PM.
12-27-2005, 07:20 PM
#2
That sucks! Any particular shipper involved here to keep a heads up of??
Once had some Koi shipped to me & of course they are supposed to arrive next day air since expensive Japanese fish don't care to be in a box of water for multiple days! Well, it was the second day that they finally arrived & they made it ok, but it was tense wondering when I was opening up the box if they'd be swimmin or floatin! The guy I bought em from in Ohio said he lost thousands of dollars of fish in just one shipment cause half arrived dead after 2-3 days instead of overnight. He had them insured of course, but he said it was a pain dealing with the claims process & appeasing customers who lost fish they hoped to have swimmin in their ponds!
Once had some Koi shipped to me & of course they are supposed to arrive next day air since expensive Japanese fish don't care to be in a box of water for multiple days! Well, it was the second day that they finally arrived & they made it ok, but it was tense wondering when I was opening up the box if they'd be swimmin or floatin! The guy I bought em from in Ohio said he lost thousands of dollars of fish in just one shipment cause half arrived dead after 2-3 days instead of overnight. He had them insured of course, but he said it was a pain dealing with the claims process & appeasing customers who lost fish they hoped to have swimmin in their ponds!
12-27-2005, 07:24 PM
#3
UPS is totally useless. Fed ex not much better, but at least it gets there.
Had a cell phone problem this last week. next day air new phone. says "left on porch" -
Well, not my porch. I even checked the "porsh" just incase they meant on the 928 sitting in the driveway.
So now a second phone, at no charge to me, must be sent.
UPS once lost a box of cams for me. Lied about it, found it destroyed, reboxed it, and I got it then. Destoyed cams put back in a new UPS box.
I only ship Fed ex, but I now have a current problem with them.
Had a cell phone problem this last week. next day air new phone. says "left on porch" -
Well, not my porch. I even checked the "porsh" just incase they meant on the 928 sitting in the driveway. So now a second phone, at no charge to me, must be sent.
UPS once lost a box of cams for me. Lied about it, found it destroyed, reboxed it, and I got it then. Destoyed cams put back in a new UPS box.
I only ship Fed ex, but I now have a current problem with them.
