23 Feb
2002
23 Feb
'02
1:11 p.m.
I've had to pay $10 shipping on a couple of DIMMs, though the postage was only
$1.53 at the time. Still, it was enough of a savings to make me tolerate it.
A 9GB SCSI (SCA-80) drive arrived today with $4.53 in postage, and the entire
cost, shipped, was $24.85. The thing works VERY well, so far, and its heads
haven't stopped moving for 5 hours.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doc" <doc(a)mdrconsult.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: This is funny (ebay)
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> If you ship via USPS Priority Mail, they'll give you a box for free and
lend
> you the pen to write the address on it. Since a
cable isn't easy to
break,
> you won't be needing Sunday's paper for
padding. Unfortunately, they
don't
pick up, but
they're both cheaper and faster than UPS.
Yup. For small items, USPS is my choice. But even with a free box &
label, if you count bookkeeping and trip time, actual shipping plus
$5.10 handling ain't even close to minimum wage.
And on the buyers' side, $9 shipping is about what it would cost me in
time & gas to drive around and get one.
Unless the seller is obviously a business, I just don't see total S&H
of under $10 as being excessive if the item is bigger than a couple of
SIMMs....
Doc