Thread: Shipping Rant

Ha- Look at it this way - they gave you some comic relief for Christmas......

Maybe they were going to send it piece by piece??

I just cheked the Fastway web site to see what normal price is, and they have a weight limit of 25Kg, and Aus Post limit is 20Kg, so maybe that's the problem, it's not within normal limits?

Russell.

I recently purchased a lawn mower off Ebay and it is quite large and heavy form memory it was $30. There are a lot of places making money on shipping always get a quote.

did you question the postage, i got my lathe from them and the frieght was only $40-$50

MIK

I just purchased a gyprock sheet lifter from melbourne weighed about 50 kg or there abouts '',two man lift ''cost $70 .

Just organise your own freight.

Here is the link to the company we use for a quote: Couriers Please - EzySend

Better still......find a better disc sander......

I have that model - the table isn't flat, and the crude adjustment mechanism makes it almost impossible to lock the table accurately perpedicular to the disc. Very poorly made.

I've already made several modifications, but a job for next year might be to take the table off, throw it out, and build my own with a threaded adjuster to set the table accurately relative to the disc.

I believe the yellow Woodfast one is better made - might be worth a look.

With regards to the postage I bought a mini lathe from carbatec and the postage was only around 40 bucks but what I think the problem was is the address (tennant creek) they sure have a fair way to send it. Thats just my opinion


Cheers Ian

Originally Posted by Dorno

With regards to the postage I bought a mini lathe from carbatec and the postage was only around 40 bucks but what I think the problem was is the address (tennant creek) they sure have a fair way to send it. Thats just my opinion


Cheers Ian

I agree but $200 is a bit extreme my whole midi lathe shipment with chucks and bench was only 125 to Gravesend from Melbourne because Sydney didn't have what I wanted

Not woodworking but recently I purchased a rotary hoe
from Perth on eBay which weighed 86kgs.

The freight from Perth to any Melbourne suburb was $60.00
and only an extra $30.00 to Wallan (about 55 kms Nth of Melb).
It was delivered by a courier.

It arrived within a welded steel frame and bolted to the frame
for safe handling.

I would be asking Carbatec to review their charge/s.

Allan

Originally Posted by Dorno

With regards to the postage I bought a mini lathe from carbatec and the postage was only around 40 bucks but what I think the problem was is the address (tennant creek) they sure have a fair way to send it. Thats just my opinion


Cheers Ian

we always get comments like that but we do have a strong freight system set up here and to charge $255 for a parcel weighing 37kg to anywhere in Oz is a bit rough
One would hope it was a typo and was meant to say $25.50.
If it was me I would send an email back saying that they have just lost a customer due to there over inflated freight prices and see what they have to say

Originally Posted by Mr Brush

Better still......find a better disc sander......

I have that model - the table isn't flat, and the crude adjustment mechanism makes it almost impossible to lock the table accurately perpedicular to the disc. Very poorly made.

I've already made several modifications, but a job for next year might be to take the table off, throw it out, and build my own with a threaded adjuster to set the table accurately relative to the disc.

I believe the yellow Woodfast one is better made - might be worth a look.

That freight does look very expensive, but I have no ideas on how to reduce it.

I can only second what Mr Bush said - I looked at these two side by side in carbatec and thought of getting the carbatec one. Then the salesman showed me the adjustment mechanism, the better table, etc and believe me, it's worth the extra $100. Twice over.

Cheers,
Dave

Dave - tragically (as it turns out) they were out of stock of the Woodfast one when I was there. I've seen it since, and kicked myself for not holding off until they had it. Of course, with the benefit of hindsight, I should have wondered why they had sold all their stock EXCEPT the Carbatec-branded one.....

Having driven 150km to get to Carbatec, I was going to buy a sander that day no matter what. The Carbatec one was cheap, I thought "surely the Chinese couldn't stuff up something as simple as that", and I bought one. Turns out they COULD stuff it up, in ways I hadn't even considered......

I'd just hate the OP to go through all the hassle to arrange freight to a remote location, at consideable cost, then find that the sander was barely usable.

Trust me....it is NOT worth the saving. Wait and get something of better quality IMHO.

It cost me $277 for the M910 + a lot of accessories, somewhere around the 300Kg mark from Adelaide to Wollongong. If you want a Woodfast, why not order direct from Woodfast?