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Shipping options are sometimes pure chaos
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this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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I want to hear the story behind people who click the massively expensive shipping
Guess either rich or its for a company, most expensive shipping I have had to chose at work was $5000 same day air freight and I know that easily gets dwarfed by other companies when they really need something fast.
Ford once made my company pay 100k usd for same day international air freight of about four pallets. The reason was a mistake of theirs, in the end I managed to recover the money but yeah, there's companies out there that can an do spend crazy amounts of money to not stop a production line. Especially if it's not their money.
With that price I imagine it's freight. Thursday is probably a dedicated truck and Friday-Wednesday is probably on one with several other orders.
If this is some piece of equipment that's replacing a broken one the $700 is probably worth it when the lack of this is possibly costing you thousands of dollars each day that you don't have it, or even worse losing a customer, especially if it doesn't get there 'till Wednesday, since installation could take a couple and then you're out a whole other week.