cheapest way to ship a bumper?
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This one guy on ebay was selling bumpers and shipping via Greyhound shipping service. Only part that sucks is that you have to pick it up at the Greyhound station.
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From: Bowling Green, KY
2004 Oxford Green BMW 530i SMG
I purchased a front and rear bumper off Ebay two years ago and they were shipped from Las Vegas, NV to Bowling Green, KY via DHL. It took over 8 weeks to receive them. At first, they left Vegas and ended up in NC...Error on DHL's behalf, but for some reason they had to be shipped back to Vegas. After that, they somehow got lost in Cincinatti, OH. I used their tracking system, and it showed the box arrived and after two weeks, never left.
A VERY frustrated me called DHL and the compay I bought the bumpers from on a daily basis. The bumpers were each wrapped very well and placed into a box larger than the average refrigerator and somehow managed to get lost. I called the Cincinatti hub and spoke to the manager who said the box shows up on their computer as arriving, but never departing; however they're nowhere to be found.
I file a claim with the company which takes FOREVER to process, and almost 9 weeks to the day they were originally shipped, the tattered box shows up on my front steps looking like it fell out of the back of the truck going down the highway. The bumpers were scuffed a LITTLE bit, so I file another damage claim through DHL, but to this day I've never seen a cent.
I'd rather give myself a vasectomy than to send or receive ANYTHING via DHL.
Greyhound is probably the cheapest way to send a bumper, but like it has been mentioned, they only deliver to Greyhound terminals.
A VERY frustrated me called DHL and the compay I bought the bumpers from on a daily basis. The bumpers were each wrapped very well and placed into a box larger than the average refrigerator and somehow managed to get lost. I called the Cincinatti hub and spoke to the manager who said the box shows up on their computer as arriving, but never departing; however they're nowhere to be found.
I file a claim with the company which takes FOREVER to process, and almost 9 weeks to the day they were originally shipped, the tattered box shows up on my front steps looking like it fell out of the back of the truck going down the highway. The bumpers were scuffed a LITTLE bit, so I file another damage claim through DHL, but to this day I've never seen a cent.
I'd rather give myself a vasectomy than to send or receive ANYTHING via DHL.
Greyhound is probably the cheapest way to send a bumper, but like it has been mentioned, they only deliver to Greyhound terminals.
Last edited by severecaraddict; Nov 25, 2006 at 01:40 AM.
