Re: Screw JEGS
Tooky said:
Especially compared to Race Proven Motors, who despite their stated company policy of charging "actual shipping charges", charged me $30 to return an aluminum intake manifold when it cost me only $11.55 to send it to them the exact same distance, via the exact same UPS Ground service. Mike Lee refused to justify this nearly triple charge to me, or explain the discrepency between "his" cost and mine. :roll: :tdown:
I gotta say for someone who spends so much time developing some pretty nice and informative tech articles you really are a complete retard. Just because it cost you $11.55 does not mean it costs us the same. I told you before to look up the price at UPS.COM if you have a problem with our shipping cost. Maybe you lack a college education but there is more to an actual cost, then what is printed out on your computer screen. So for anyone out there who has not been around long enough to know Dooky is a total retard maybe this will help explain it:
Did you think the new box, the shipping tape, the peanuts, and the bubble wrap is free? Do you think the person processing your label / boxing the intake according to UPS standards works for free? Call it a handling cost, call it an actual cost.. whatever you want, it is a cost that comes out of my pocket.
Ok, so we can all agree that doesn't cost the difference of $19. Well to start you shipped to a business. We shipped to your residence. That fee is cost of over $2. Just because point "A" and "B" are the same doesn't mean the cost is the same. Our shop is in a heavily populated commercial area. Your house is not. So there is an additional surcharge right there. It varies, but in your case it was enough to boost the "actual cost" We added insurance for replacement costs, and to cover our time invested modifying your intake. I don't know if you insured the package or not, but you definitely didn't insure the work you were anticipating having done. According you, your intake should have been insured for $1,000,000 with its special build date /serial number and whatever crap was so important to you. However we insured it for roughly $900. I don't know the exact amount but it costs a few dollars extra.. Lastly, because of retarded customers like you we are forced to ship adult signature confirmation to prevent bogus charge backs from people claiming they never received their product. So that's a couple bucks right there.
So just like i told you last time, if you want to compare apples to apples go to UPS.COM and type in all the information. The shipping cost they calculate is nowhere near $11.55.
As for you other guys complaining about a $10 handling fee, you can't beat the shipping prices for Jegs/Summit.. Do you realize when i ship a sway bar direct from Belltech to a customer it costs over $35!!!! Summit will ship it for free (well with a $10 handling charge) I don't know how they do it, but they do. Yeh it seems ridiculous to spend $10 to ship a $2 part but they aren't trying to process 1000 $5 orders all day. They wouldn't be in business.
FYI, the published rate on a 1 lb box from Ca to a residence on the East Coast via UPS Ground without signature confirmation is over $7. It doesn't matter if you have 100 paperclips or 1, it is still a lb. The same guys complaining about these shipping prices are the same guys who will drive 3 hours to pick up a part we quoted $10 to ship. With todays gas prices @ $4.50/gal. it probably cost them double in gas, not to mention they wasted 3 hours of their time sitting in traffic. Most successful people know that time = money. But there is a small percentage of retards like Tooky who don't understand that and will ride the shortbus for the rest of their life..
