Beware of UPS!!!

[LonesomeTriZ]

They really pissed me off. I went on line and shipping quotes from them before I took the item in for them to ship out. When I got there their prices was over one hundred dollars more. Finally after arguing with them they gave me a better price. It was $91 less but still $50 more than what was quoted on line. They told me on line quotes are not valid and I should not go by them. The one thing I had worked out in my favor is I was giving the part away that they shipped. If I had charged for it I would have been screwed. Even with the over sized fees, the Post Office would have been a better choice.

[RedRider_AK]

Well, I have never used FedEx or UPS, because living in a small village in Alaska, you end up paying more and the FedEx guy only gets packages once every two weeks or so... easier getting stuff Priority Mail, takes a week at the most. Much cheaper than "Second Day Air" too.

[LonesomeTriZ]

Yeah, I am just going to pay the over size fees for now on with the USPS.

[RideRed250R]

UPS and Fedex only work well for small packages, I use to be a shipping manager and ship over 1.5 million dollars worth of product a year. Fedex and UPS only work out when you get killer rates, they rape the average joe, USPS is awesome with the flat rate boxs,

[SYKO]

did you goto a UPS store? if so thats why! they are a franchised store so the owner can increase rates how they want! I take my UPS stuff straight to a terminal at times its over 75% cheaper there! same with fedex! never use a store take stuff straight to the terminal. In fact ive saved money taking stuff to the terminal then even the online shipping quote was!

[LonesomeTriZ]

I did not know there was a difference. Now that I know I will not allow this to happen again.

[SWIGIN]

yeah, my brother gets daily pick up at the house and it is WAY cheaper then those ups stores.

[racerxxx]

Set a UPS account up online, I think the UPS store you took your stuff to was blowing smoke up your you know what. If you enter the LBS correctly, and the dimensions of your box, it will spit out the rate. I have checked the rate online(without signing into my account) and checked the price with our UPS Worldship software on our work PC's and it matches penny to penny. If you have and online account you can even print you own shipping label and take it to the UPS store, drop it off and the UPS driver will pick it up there that night. I ship "online" and drop of at my father in laws shop or go directly to the UPS store and drop it off, you can even give it to a regular UPS driver if you see one. Sounds like you got burned.

[jason85atc250r]

yeah, my brother gets daily pick up at the house and it is WAY cheaper then those ups stores.

yes i have the daily (every day) pickup for selling my ebay goodies. if you set up a account they cant also do just a pickup for just one day during the week for around $5 or so. You just log in to your account and just type in what day you want them to come and they stop buy and grab it. Then they send you a bill in the mail.

[Erics350x]

i've had pretty good luck with DHL and USPS. UPS always brings me smashed boxes and broken stuff

[hadar]

/\/\ DHL is up on outta here though.

[factoryX]

how heavy was the item? I shipped a 75lb motor through them for $55.

[LonesomeTriZ]

I am starting to see that I did get burned. Well, I am not the one that git burned, the person paying for the shipping did. But still, I would not have gone there had I known they did things that way. If they have UPS on the door they should honor UPS quotes.

The item wighed a staggering ten pounds. Yep, the whole box wieghed ten freaking pounds. It was large, but not that damn big.

[The Goat]

ups distro center, and don't be afraid to flirt with the old black ladies working there.

all I'm saying.

Got my 350x frame across the country for 25 or 26 bucks...

[phreakboy]

Sorry to hear of your issues, but yes next time just set up an account and print the label yourself and run and drop it off anywhere that ships ups. There will be no questions asked so its super quick and easy, I do this anytime I ship ups, usps, or fedex.