[R-390] Free for Shipping Cost Stuff

[Pete Lancashire]

I had a similar situation not with shipping but making something available
for local pickup in exchange for selling it at about 1/4th it's value. It
was a stack of equipment about 3 ft tall that comprised of a Unix server
still being manufactured by IBM.

I don't know how many calls I got wanting me to break it up and let people
cherry pick it apart.

I was asking $500 or make offer not a lot of money considering its value.
Eventually the last person to come look at it spent over 2 hours checking
it out while I sat there pretty much in pain due to my medical condition.
And at the very end offers my son who has been helping me $400. Part of me
wanted to tell him to get lost but I took the $400 told my son not to help
him load it.

The guy split so fast he didn't even come back and clean up the mess it
made with power cords network cables Etc. And to this day has never thanked
me.

And people wonder why it times I just want to call a scrap metal dealer and
toss it all in a 15 yarder.

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018, 11:27 PM Perry Sandeen via R-390 <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> Learned gentlemen,
>
> I will be offering some more stuff to the list.
>
> But please help me out.
>
> First send an original email off list as a reply. Using the reflector list
> will stack all the replies into one long mess
>
>  Please don't ask what the cost of shipping will be.  I don't know and I
> can't easily find out.  Count on FedEx being about $2 a pound. Shipping B/A
> type stuff is heavy and then I have to buy boxes as packing material. A
> minimum cross country package shipping will be $30 to $125. I then have to
> make a 25 mile round trip to the FedEx office and by the time I get back
> usually two hours are gone.
>
> A pesonal thought.   When the stuff is free and you have to ask the
> shipping cost, it indicates you really can't afford it.  Either make a
> commitment or don't.  When I get 10 to 20 emails about free stuff I don't
> have time for a long extended email exchange.
>
> If you respond, on your email to me please send your real name and full
> addderess plus zip code. This is what I need for fedex. A call sign with a
> nickname makes me have to go to the Arrl site to get the FCC address and
> then I have to go back to the email and mate the two.  It is a time
> consuming pain.
>
> So please help me out.
>
> Regards,
> Perrier
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