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Location: NJ | Well, after talking numerous times with a real nice guy in Oregon named Nils that I sold a 1979 Pacemaker to that UPS had their way with, they finally paid off. Nearly 2 months to the day. They also had their way with a 1964 brazilian rosewood Guild D-50 that I shipped about 7-8 years ago. Same debackle, but they paid that one off too after about 2 months following constant harrassment by me. Anyway, hello Ovation fan club! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Glad to see you come in from the cold and welcome to the board!
I have a 67' Guild D50 with beautiful rosewood under the 35+ years of belt buckle scratches and dings. Very nice!
I'm glad Nils has some good news - he's been stayin up too late as of late and getting just a little bit scary! :eek:
good to have you! |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Ron,
Welcome aboard! Congrats on the great news.
I wonder if Fed-ex Ground has as much trouble as UPS is repotedly Having!!LOL :D |
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Location: Florida | I had UPS bust up a customers amp once. Make a mess of the cabinet and speaker.
Of course, it was fixable, and insured for $1500. It was also double boxed and had been inspected the UPS shipping counter.
Asked how much to repair - we got prices on cabinets and speaker (the frame was bent, no recone), and submitted a claim for $350. UPS agreed, and that was that.
Until they lost the amp on its way back to me for repair. Poof, gone, gonzo thats it. I put in a claim for the remainder, which UPS denied at first. They ended up paying but I had to have papers in hand ready to bring them to court in order to get the money. Now the funny thing is - The customer claimed the amp was worth $1200 so UPS wanted to pay THAT amount. I said No-Way-Jose since I had $300 of repair into the amp (total recap, all new pots and jacks, all new tubes AND sockets) and there was no way I ought to have to lose because UPS screwed up - and thats why the additional insurance was purchased.
Knowing UPS - I once sent a bunch of milk cans from NY (upstate) to my home in Florida, insured at $10,000 each, to be delivered overnight.
Hehe... it was a LOT of fun when UPS lost the entire lot of em (six cans) for two weeks. I demanded my sixty grand! They found em, and had the balls to refuse to refund my next day delivery charge that took two weeks. I got that back too.
At .35/$100 I think one could almost invest in the fact that say... for a $350 premium, you'd get at least one $10,000 payoff. Not bad. |
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Location: NJ | Thanks for the welcome!
I have found that believe it or not, the US postal service is very good for overseas shipping at about half the cost of UPS. They sort of suck within the US though....I bought a case for my '31 Triolian and they lost it. Not a small item.....tough to loose. I've shipped hundreds of guitars over the past 20 years and UPS only destroyed 2, not all that bad I guess, they did pay both claims but try to make you go away in the process. They should tell you that when they sell the insurance. "We will try not to pay you". |
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Location: Central Oregon | Wowee! Hi Ron! Great to see you on here :) I've been busy writing one of my book length posts about this very thing & didn't see your thread until after Tony emailed me about it just now. Welcome to the board! I think you'll fit right in & like it here.
If anyone here see's an auction item offered by "Refret" don't hesitate to bid on it! Solid Gold Seller!
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UPS insurance payoff