USPS has the advantage of working weekends, and I'm suspecting you're ordering across the country, which is a long way to truck a package on work days only. I don't begrudge Rivendell anything. They run very lean and do the best for their employees they can. Their agreement with UPS works for them. If you want really tedious, some of the larger warehouse and repackage vendors can really drive you crazy. I have my preferences, and don't do business with some of the warehouse vendors often praised on this forum because I don't like their tedious shipping. Even service at sierratradingpost has gone downhill since they changed hands a few years ago.
Last bike I built included orders from Rivendell, Modern Bike, Ahearne, Outside Outfitters, Ben's Cycle, Jenson, VeloFred, Velomine, Biketiresdirect, Alex in Japan, CRC in UK, Wiggle in UK - I did my homework. (Universal is also really good, but they didn't have my components in stock). This is kind of my hit list for service effort and price break. Yes, Rivendell has some great prices on many items. The slowest of the bunch is Outside Outfitters, including the offshore vendors. I'm also with Joe - I keep an active wish list at Rivendell (sierratradingpost and wiggle) and watch for suchadeals before I place orders. On Friday, June 24, 2016 at 2:13:00 AM UTC-5, Joe Bernard wrote: > > To me the $9 is a basic flat rate, and the trick is to wait until you have > a decent order together to make the shipping worth it, or bump it past $150 > for free shipping. > > Rivendell may look like a big operation online, but it's really just some > folks in a building selling eclectic bike stuff at prices/shipping they can > manage. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
