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Re: It's a scam! (I know it..)

You said:
"Re: Driving 300 miles to pick something up - No way, unless there are other considerations. I rented a car and picked up the sub, but it was only 200 miles and I had been wanting to do some shopping in Orlando (about 50 miles from me along the way) anyway. Between the sub and base it was about 180 lb. It would have had to go freight and there were reasons that would have been a hassle for the seller, so I picked it up. 300 miles is at least 10 hours of my time, and at $0.30/mile to drive a car, that's $180. Since I've never had anything damaged in shipping I'm not about to spend 10 or more hours on the road and spend a wad of money on driving if I can get something shipped for a reasonable rate and just pick it up off the front porch. ;-) Besides, if you get 30mpg, 600 miles is 20 gallons of gas. I'm not going to use 20 gallons of a nonrenewable resource and pollute the air with it out of concern that something will get broken in shipping. That's why they have insurance. ;-)"

300 miles is about only around 4 hours of my actual driving time @ 75 to 80 mph using my trusty radar/laser combo detector plus my sprayed license plates to defeat those new nasty remote photo picture gadgets. Come on AL Gore wastes more energy offset carbon credits than that drive running his lights for a week in his home, or burning jet fuel in just one afternoon short city to city jet hop. BTW his new company sells carbon credits so he is not exactly paying what the average schmuck sucker does who pays those stupid carbon offsets willingly. Lets leave the tree hugging out of this forum. You started it. :) You would just love my non green Mustang with the illegal race only aluminum cylinder heads. Funny but it still passes annual emissions testing without the EGR and lots of the related smog gear. I drove to NJ to pick up my HK Citation ll with the tube cage. I also drove over 200 miles to pick up a pair of near mint JBL L300 speakers for $500. There are few people that can properly pack a turntable for safe shipping. I just had a bozo pack a Fisher 500c without wrapping it in bubble pack like he said he would. Not a big fix but it needs about $100 bucks of work to have it fixed properly. If I had driven to NYC to pick it up the gas and tolls would have been less than the cost to have the shipping damage fixed. John


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