I agree with Patrick Moore. Unless somebody is made of money, I see absolutely no point in making a tiny online order with Rivendell Bicycle Works. You are wasting your money and wasting Rivendell's money. Rivendell tells me that $150 is a good break-even dollar amount. The communication method they use to tell me that is by paying me to place a $150 order (aka free shipping). Offer to pay me to do something and I'll think hard about doing that. Sometimes I'll stock up on some consumable item like handlebar tape or a chain, or a cassette, to make it to $150. If all I needed was a $1 set of Silver Shifter washers, I would not pay the $9 it would cost to ship them. I get it that it's frustrating when all you need is that one little thing and only Rivendell has it, like crochet gloves or Nitto struts, or brass ferrules. Stock up on the stuff that only Rivendell sells, get it to $150, and get paid to do it. Then everybody is happy.
On Friday, June 24, 2016 at 10:58:02 AM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: > > I think this justifies the cost: > > > "In some companies, I imagine that the shippers are entry-level and often > the lowest compensated. It's not that way here. We have two shippers and we > treat, and they treat, their jobs as career jobs. Their pay is 45 to 50 > percent of mine, and even so, there's no fluff--them or me. In return, you > get a package packed better than any other company in the world, I believe." > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
