I think the problem with shipping costs are that most vendors show shipping charges that are obviously two to ten times higher than actual. The next time you receive a package that you paid shipping on, take it to the post office and ask how much it would cost to ship it back to where it came from. You will see the cost is no where near what you paid. Vendors are just marking up shipping cost to increase their profits. When I see a shipping charge for an item that is obviously way more than actual, I refuse to buy from them. I feel that if they are going to cheat me on the shipping, then they may be cheating me on the product also, by misrepresenting themselves. That's my two cents worth.
From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Lee A. Stone Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:50 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] New toy. may I suggest that if you are going to buy something do not stop now because of shipping as the prices will continue to climb. I do not see it in my lifetime of shipping charges coming down. we have a brother who is a long distance hauler and it costs plenty to run a big rig. also I note when I bought something from sears, like the replacement water filter. again the cost of shipping is wait out of line. so when in albany at sears we stop at their large appliance department. all hooks which shuld have those filters ae empty and we are told we wasted the gas. so buy now if you have the money as shipping costs, again will not reduce. Lee On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 04:51:32PM -0500, wstep...@everestkc.net <mailto:wstephan%40everestkc.net> wrote: > Speaking of new toys.... > > I recently bought the talking level and the tactile tape measure from Blindmicemart.com, and though I haven't had time to play with them yet, they look OK. I also bought the talking tire pressure gauge I mentioned, and that is really handy, since the pressure in my garden cart tires was way way lower than it should have been. I got the multimeter we talked about here as well, and after I scan the little bit of documentation there is, I'll doubtless have questions for the luminarians on this great List. > > I've been having trouble finding Schrader valves, though they do have them on Amazon.com if you're willing to pay four times the value of the valve for shipping. > I was told that the reason these are more scarce than in the past is that unless you have a license, you can't buy refrigerant any longer, and that was why say lumber yards used to have them but tend not to unless they trade with a lot of refrigeration contractors. > I have a friend at work who's a good guy and pretty handy and tomorrow at lunch we're going to go to an industrial hardware store on the north side of the Missouri River where I know I can get them. > Enjoy your sawdust Dan, it's always great to get new tools etc. > > > Bill Stephan > Kansas Citty MO > Email: wstep...@everestkc.net <mailto:wstephan%40everestkc.net> > Phone: (816)803-2469 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan Rossi <d...@andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:dr25%40andrew.cmu.edu> > > Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:12 pm > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] New toy. > > I just ordered one of those spiffy sounding Bosch Colt Palm > > routers, along > > with the edge guide and a set of seven templates. The router and > > edge > > guide were $109 bucks from amazon with free shipping. The > > templates and a > > round subbase for threaded template guides was another 40 bucks. > > Probably > > didn't need the rest, but threw it in there for the hell of it. > > > > The 109 bucks for the router and edge guide was the best I found > > other > > than a refurb unit on CPO Bosch. > > > > Can't wait to make some saw dust with it. > > > > -- > > Blue skies. > > Dan Rossi > > Carnegie Mellon University. > > E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:dr25%40andrew.cmu.edu> > > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > -- Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. -- Winston Churchill . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
