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[Y-me]

Originally Posted by GOLDCYLON

Have the UPS store pack it and insure it if it breaks its on them. That cost is past onto your buyer. Just an idea. GC

Did that once. It showed up broken, the buyer called the ups store and the A-hole that packed it/owned the place told the customer I packed it.

[WVZR-1]

I had a Melrose box that I used I think 4 times to ship a top and part of the sale was that the top be returned. The fifth sale was going to the left coast and the return of the empty box was a little more than I had anticipated and I just let it go with the sale. I had "no issues" with any top I shipped. I've sent one other top and it "arrived alive" also. The Melrose packaging isn't hard to duplicate.

I've always used FEDEX and only once I had to open a box for their inspection before they would apply the amount of insurance that I requested. I don't use UPS for anything of value. Yes there's problems with all of them and this isn't the time of year to be considering the ship of valuables or anything of value.

[GOLDCYLON]

Originally Posted by vilant

I tried that already at one of their stores. They won't do it because the top doesn't fit in any of their "standard" boxes (the largest one they have is a bicycle box), which means they can't pack it and won't insure it. You can pack it yourself but they won't insure it. I remember someone said he built a custom wood crate to ship tops or windshields? Not sure who he used to deliver.

Hmm they have wised up I guess. How in the hell does Melrose do it ?

[GOLDCYLON]

Originally Posted by Y-me

Did that once. It showed up broken, the buyer called the ups store and the A-hole that packed it/owned the place told the customer I packed it.

That would be an easy battle to win. however your right he is an A-hole

[WVZR-1]

Originally Posted by GOLDCYLON

That would be an easy battle to win. however your right he is an A-hole

There's no easy "battle" to win when UPS is involved. There's a post on the CF that involved a top and the shipper was several months getting a resolution. I believe they actually trashed his broken top. It was a pack and ship also. I had a differential claim with UPS and was best I recall better than 6 months getting resolved and paid. That was my last UPS "ship" of valuables.

I've had two issues with deliveries of UPS packages - one I found in the middle of the yard. Several months later another and the shipper replaced the order no questions asked. 90 days or so later UPS wanted to investigate and after a conversation they said they could check the package by GPS and it was delivered and they pinpointed the drop spot. It was a very light piece of software, less than I'm sure 6 - 8 ounces and I'm sure it blew away. It was well beyond "breezy". I had checked the yard and a couple adjacent properties before calling the vendor. I asked the gal "you can confirm the drop" -she said "yes"! I had the original box from the "middle of the yard incident" and gave her the package tracking. The scan was done nowhere near my house. She didn't say how many feet but it wasn't at my door-step. Theirs and I'm sure others are very sophisticated tracking.

The package was about this time of year and I arrived home from work way past darkness every weekday from my work. I looked out the window on a Saturday morning and spotted the box while talking on the phone. Tracking said it had been there a couple of days. It was a CF buy and I had no idea of when to expect it.

[mike100]

Melrose has a special heavy duty box with a sort of framework cardboard skeleton top holder which adds both strength and provides a gap to allow the corners and ends of the outer box to crush and never touch the top. I have considered buying just the box from that guy as i had an $800 misadventure with a C6 top that got hammered when it knife-edged right through the end of a box that the seller thought was going to work out.

The seller was a lawyer in Texas and convinced FedEx to pay the insurance.

[GOLDCYLON]

Originally Posted by WVZR-1

There's no easy "battle" to win when UPS is involved. There's a post on the CF that involved a top and the shipper was several months getting a resolution. I believe they actually trashed his broken top. It was a pack and ship also. I had a differential claim with UPS and was best I recall better than 6 months getting resolved and paid. That was my last UPS "ship" of valuables.

I've had two issues with deliveries of UPS packages - one I found in the middle of the yard. Several months later another and the shipper replaced the order no questions asked. 90 days or so later UPS wanted to investigate and after a conversation they said they could check the package by GPS and it was delivered and they pinpointed the drop spot. It was a very light piece of software, less than I'm sure 6 - 8 ounces and I'm sure it blew away. It was well beyond "breezy". I had checked the yard and a couple adjacent properties before calling the vendor. I asked the gal "you can confirm the drop" -she said "yes"! I had the original box from the "middle of the yard incident" and gave her the package tracking. The scan was done nowhere near my house. She didn't say how many feet but it wasn't at my door-step. Theirs and I'm sure others are very sophisticated tracking.

The package was about this time of year and I arrived home from work way past darkness every weekday from my work. I looked out the window on a Saturday morning and spotted the box while talking on the phone. Tracking said it had been there a couple of days. It was a CF buy and I had no idea of when to expect it.

I was refering to the "LIE" aspect by the UPS Pack and ship story. Dont get me wrong I dont trust either UPS or FEDEX however, they are your only option sometimes or large heavy items like tires. I have great success with the USPS.

[GOLDCYLON]

Originally Posted by mike100

Melrose has a special heavy duty box with a sort of framework cardboard skeleton top holder which adds both strength and provides a gap to allow the corners and ends of the outer box to crush and never touch the top. I have considered buying just the box from that guy as i had an $800 misadventure with a C6 top that got hammered when it knife-edged right through the end of a box that the seller thought was going to work out.

The seller was a lawyer in Texas and convinced FedEx to pay the insurance.

Yikes

[Y-me]

Originally Posted by GOLDCYLON

That would be an easy battle to win. however your right he is an A-hole

Oh no I definitely got that straightened, the fact that he tried just put a bad taste in my mouth.

[GOLDCYLON]

Originally Posted by Y-me

Oh no I definitely got that straightened, the fact that he tried just put a bad taste in my mouth.

I agree and I would vote with my feet as well. Again a total ahole