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March 29th, 2008

unixronin: Cartoon pirate (Piratical)
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 12:47 pm
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unixronin: Pissed-off avatar (Pissed off)
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 02:59 pm

I have a need for some Tetra Gun teflon grease.  (I have a tube somewhere; I just can't find it since we moved.  And actually, I don't even need it for firearms; I need it to carefully lubricate a few sticking spots in the load/unload mechanism of an LTO1 tape drive.)

Problem:  No-one locally seems to carry it.  I can find it online no problem, at around $4 for a one-ounce tube ... but then they want $12-$15 to ship it to me.  GROUND.  Hello?!?  WTF?  I could ship a one-ounce item across the US second-day air for that.  I could almost overnight it.  I shipped a HP calculator from California to Holland for less.

$15 domestic ground shipping for a $4 one-ounce item — that is neither fragile, perishable nor hazardous — goes beyond ludicrous into "How stupid are you trying to say I look?"

(Crossposted to [livejournal.com profile] guns)

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