Tell the seller to send it FedEx, not USPS. The
problem with USPS is they have a cutoff size of 84 inches. After that they pop
you with surcharges out the wazoo. UPS does same and if oversize, like one of my
71-74 AMX/Jav front spoilers, even though box is only 10 pounds, you get hit
with a 70 pound rate. So a box that would cost me $39-$43 to ship in the US(I'm
using the abover spoiler as a example) suddenly blooms to $179 to ship to Canada
by USPS, or $167 by UPS or $165 by FedEx. Thats for the Canooks.
So get with your seller and tell him to please take
it over to FedEx, of which the shipping shuold be less than $20, depending on
how he boxed them. Some folks use a refrigirator or matress box to ship a
baseball for instance.
You also might be dealing with one of the problems
on ebay where people will get pissed off that no one bid on their stuff andsold
'for way less than THEY thought it was worth' so they wait until auction was
over then send you notice shipping is $1,364,980 for a $1 bolt. It don't take a
AMC brain surgeon to figure out if they are getting cornholed either. Nothing
justifies $48 in shipping for a set of doo rpanels, I have shipped 6 sets of
them in the past year, and the most expensive was $26 to NY. And I flatten them
out in boxes too. So my guess and that is all it is.....:~P is that the seller
is pissed he didn't get more for them and extorsion is a last attempt to make up
difference. Or...as mentioned before, he/she put them in a damned box so big it
WILL cost $48 to ship them. so the box will have to be resized and vut down, not
a big deal, takes minutes to do and retape. You have to get it under the 84
inches for USPS. If not, surcharges will apply and they are big in many cases.
So ask him to possibly cut box size down, and/or take it as is to the nearest
FedEx place, many are located in places like Kinko's, Office Depot, Office Max,
and many free standing buildings in his/her town. Good luck....hope this
helps....
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