Tell me about it. Hawaii has its own obstacles with various things on a regular basis.
I need a replacement laptop battery that costs $50.
But you cannot get an individual battery not already inside a laptop shipped to you by the usual options, because hazmat shipping restrictions make it prohibited or too expensive for the seller to pay the fees.
I can have it delivered to a freight company and have them forward it to me via sea for $270+, or have it delivered to a friend on the mainland, and have them send it by USPS Ground (also comes by sea in a few weeks) for about $15.
I ordered a portable power station from Amazon from the one and only company that would deliver here, and while I did get it for the usual free shipping to everywhere else in the US, I looked later in the day after making the order, and they had changed their allowed shipping areas to exclude Hawaii like everyone else.
Im sure trying to smuggle a dozen lithium based batteries onto a passenger plane would go over super well with the TSA. They would probably even pull you into the nice private Polite Conversation Room.
I’m pretty sure the phrase the TSA would use to describe a dozen laptop batteries in a suitcase is “an incendiary device”.
It’s maddening. Just figuring out how to get something here without extortion.
I needed a specialized patch cable that I could only find at one company. It could be dropped into a flat rate usps box and sent for less than $8, but the only option they would do is FedEx for a little over $90.
That is very dumb logic. USPS Flat Rate boxes are free. USPS will pick those up like every other company. Sometimes if not often it is the cheapest option, and doing labels etc is no more complicated or involved than for UPS or FedEx. Many companies do offer that as a shipping option, and others don’t even when it makes no sense. It makes no sense to only offer overnight Fedex at a cost of over $90 for a $14 5ft long patch cable that could be put in a free box and sent for less than $8-10, and it still has free tracking included and will get there in 2-3 days. It’s just companies insisting on everything being fast shipping with tracking and signature confirmation etc etc, and they just don’t want to make options available that will take longer if you’re willing to wait for it.
Obviously you have all the answers while none of the companies that ship products around the world everyday have any clue at all what they’re doing or how much it costs to send packages to an island in the middle of the ocean.
I mean, seriously, how could entire industries have so little idea? You’re the next Bill Gates, my friend.
Can you solve world hunger next?
I love Armchair Logistics.
You live on an island in the middle of the ocean. It took thousands of years for people to even get there in the first place. But sure. There’s magic teleporters that can send any package you want to you, of any size, at any time, that only you want. In the middle of the ocean.
It’s not that those companies know more or less that that guy. It’s that the companies are too lazy to arrange a different shipping company to deal with the small percent of destinations where it’s advantageous. It’s outside their normal process, so it’s inherently more expensive even if the monetary cost is lower.
I mean, I’ve provided two different examples of things that can be shipped for normal costs despite us living out here in the middle of the ocean but if you want to ignore that and act like you know everything in return, it’s just stupidity on your part.
None of us living on the islands expect anything to be shipped here fast for cheap, but there are cheap options if you’re willing to wait for it to come via USPS by sea, and it’s anti-consumer to force those of us living here to only use the most expensive methods that come via air.
And despite your ignorance, usually we can get free or cheap shipping even though we live all the way out here. It’s not like there have been zero improvements in shipping transportation. I’ve been talking about having things shipped over that are smaller than a loaf of bread, and you act like people moving here don’t pay to have cars and the contents of whole houses shipped over on a regular basis. We’re not THAT isolated.
As someone who lives here and am fully aware of the shipping situations, your arguments are entirely dumb.
edit:
further, if your shortsighted perspective were actually true, then I wouldn’t be able to use a company’s free shipping option to send it to someone on the mainland, and then have them forward it to me through USPS for a normal, non-outrageous rate. If our position in a large body of water actually meant as much for us as you seem to think it does, it would be just as expensive for that friend to forward it. It would be just as cheap for the company to send it directly to me via the same method for the same price, instead of me having to use a middle man. And if they sent it directly to me by that same method and charged me the reasonable cost, they wouldn’t have to eat the cost of sending it for free somewhere else.
If you don’t understand this, you’re too dumb to be part of the conversation, which is already evident because I’m talking about using reasonably pricing shipping methods that already exist for us and do work, and you’re being a moron talking about “magic” things.
Tell me about it. Hawaii has its own obstacles with various things on a regular basis.
I need a replacement laptop battery that costs $50.
But you cannot get an individual battery not already inside a laptop shipped to you by the usual options, because hazmat shipping restrictions make it prohibited or too expensive for the seller to pay the fees.
I can have it delivered to a freight company and have them forward it to me via sea for $270+, or have it delivered to a friend on the mainland, and have them send it by USPS Ground (also comes by sea in a few weeks) for about $15.
I ordered a portable power station from Amazon from the one and only company that would deliver here, and while I did get it for the usual free shipping to everywhere else in the US, I looked later in the day after making the order, and they had changed their allowed shipping areas to exclude Hawaii like everyone else.
Someone fucked up… and a big mahalo to them!
So are you saying I could buy like, a dozen laptop batteries, take them on a trip to Hawaii with me, and then sell them to pay for my vacation?
Im sure trying to smuggle a dozen lithium based batteries onto a passenger plane would go over super well with the TSA. They would probably even pull you into the nice private Polite Conversation Room.
I’m pretty sure the phrase the TSA would use to describe a dozen laptop batteries in a suitcase is “an incendiary device”.
With the right connections maybe.
So… hey Mateo. What are you doing next July?
I hope my new battery gets here before then…
Nice battery related joke!
They don’t want that, for the same reasons
Alaska has the same issues.
It’s maddening. Just figuring out how to get something here without extortion.
I needed a specialized patch cable that I could only find at one company. It could be dropped into a flat rate usps box and sent for less than $8, but the only option they would do is FedEx for a little over $90.
You live in the middle of the ocean.
Read the part where we could still get things here cheaper if companies were willing to use basic USPS options.
If it was easier and cheaper then companies would be using it. But they don’t.
That is very dumb logic. USPS Flat Rate boxes are free. USPS will pick those up like every other company. Sometimes if not often it is the cheapest option, and doing labels etc is no more complicated or involved than for UPS or FedEx. Many companies do offer that as a shipping option, and others don’t even when it makes no sense. It makes no sense to only offer overnight Fedex at a cost of over $90 for a $14 5ft long patch cable that could be put in a free box and sent for less than $8-10, and it still has free tracking included and will get there in 2-3 days. It’s just companies insisting on everything being fast shipping with tracking and signature confirmation etc etc, and they just don’t want to make options available that will take longer if you’re willing to wait for it.
Oh I’m sorry. I misspoke.
Obviously you have all the answers while none of the companies that ship products around the world everyday have any clue at all what they’re doing or how much it costs to send packages to an island in the middle of the ocean.
I mean, seriously, how could entire industries have so little idea? You’re the next Bill Gates, my friend.
Can you solve world hunger next?
I love Armchair Logistics.
You live on an island in the middle of the ocean. It took thousands of years for people to even get there in the first place. But sure. There’s magic teleporters that can send any package you want to you, of any size, at any time, that only you want. In the middle of the ocean.
It’s not that those companies know more or less that that guy. It’s that the companies are too lazy to arrange a different shipping company to deal with the small percent of destinations where it’s advantageous. It’s outside their normal process, so it’s inherently more expensive even if the monetary cost is lower.
Your ignorant opinions have been noted.
I mean, I’ve provided two different examples of things that can be shipped for normal costs despite us living out here in the middle of the ocean but if you want to ignore that and act like you know everything in return, it’s just stupidity on your part.
None of us living on the islands expect anything to be shipped here fast for cheap, but there are cheap options if you’re willing to wait for it to come via USPS by sea, and it’s anti-consumer to force those of us living here to only use the most expensive methods that come via air.
And despite your ignorance, usually we can get free or cheap shipping even though we live all the way out here. It’s not like there have been zero improvements in shipping transportation. I’ve been talking about having things shipped over that are smaller than a loaf of bread, and you act like people moving here don’t pay to have cars and the contents of whole houses shipped over on a regular basis. We’re not THAT isolated.
As someone who lives here and am fully aware of the shipping situations, your arguments are entirely dumb.
edit:
further, if your shortsighted perspective were actually true, then I wouldn’t be able to use a company’s free shipping option to send it to someone on the mainland, and then have them forward it to me through USPS for a normal, non-outrageous rate. If our position in a large body of water actually meant as much for us as you seem to think it does, it would be just as expensive for that friend to forward it. It would be just as cheap for the company to send it directly to me via the same method for the same price, instead of me having to use a middle man. And if they sent it directly to me by that same method and charged me the reasonable cost, they wouldn’t have to eat the cost of sending it for free somewhere else.
If you don’t understand this, you’re too dumb to be part of the conversation, which is already evident because I’m talking about using reasonably pricing shipping methods that already exist for us and do work, and you’re being a moron talking about “magic” things.