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Honestly I'm not sure. I worked at a bike shop and we would box and ship a bike for $50. I sold and shipped probably 4 bikes when I worked there and they all we
by at-fates-hands 10y ago
Honestly I'm not sure. I worked at a bike shop and we would box and ship a bike for $50. I sold and shipped probably 4 bikes when I worked there and they all were received without so much as a scratch.
I'd lay this one on the bike company. I'm guessing they didn't have big enough boxes for cardboard to sit between the bike and the outer box, or didn't add enough padding around the tubes or some combination of both.
- taeric 10y agoYou are also working on a much smaller sample size than the bike company. :) I see the story says a 70% to 80% drop in damages. I don't see the total numbers. My guess is that it it was still a low percentage, but that this was still worth the change. And, it would have been immeasurable at the scale you were talking about.
- whorleater 10y agoIf there's a breaking rate of 10% for all bike shipments, the bikes you shipped would've had a 66% chance of not seeing any bikes broken. I'm pretty sure a large scale bike company would see more issues.
- brianwawok 10y agoI smoked 1 cigar and didn't have cancer. This whole smoking causes cancer is such a fad.