Selling stuff.

[glondor]

Well I just spent a nice day in Orillia Ontario with Ralph and Pete from EDI gold. Wrecker 45 (Jim )was in the house as well trading his goods. What a classy and well run operation. Ralph and his brother Pete were very attentive and very good to deal with. Their weights were spot on for my material, their prices were the best around and selling some boards and a little half ounce gold button and buying some silver. For some reason I do like junk silver and they had just what I needed.
Pete was with in 5 cents of my prediction for my little gold button! He guestimated it to be 99.5% gold. Needless to say I was pleased.

Finished up at EDI and spent some time over lunch with Jim as he told me stories of life in the northern part of southern Ontario. Great guy with stories to tell. Hope you did OK at the Casino Jim !

Had to dash off to see my incinerator guy and all is well there. Got a call about a larger and better work space for less money, seen it and may make a deal on it. All in all a really great day, meeting all kinds of great people. It was good to meet all of you.

One sour note on the day, My new glassware arrived and the 5 liter vac flask was in a thousand pieces and a 2.5 liter vac flask had a broken neck. Oh yeah and UPS added 200 bucks to the shipping. You win some, you loose some.

 

[Anonymous]

Glad to hear your trip was such a success.That is always a welcome post and helps Peter and Ralph get more locals in to do business with them.
Terribly sorry to hear about your flask,I had the saem thing happen a month or so ago.I had some glassware shipped to me,and barren....his arrived ok, but mine got dropped kicked onto the truck.Thankfully the seller gave me a full refund.
What was the deal with UPS?

 

[glondor]

Hey Mic, I would certainly recommend EDI Gold to any one who is able to do business with them. I don't know how cross border deals would work, but if I were down south I would try to take advantage of the strong Canadian dollar and get paid in Canadian money.I don't know what the deal is with UPS. The driver told me it was shipped C.O.D. for delivery. $196 bucks, I thought it was a bit high but there were 2 large boxes so I paid the man. When I got home and opened everything up I see that I also paid $150 for shipping thru the glass company.

The shipping cost twice as much as the glassware. I am too stunned about it to even be angry. It will sink in tomorrow. It seems shipping has turned into a scam. Everyone overcharges. Not going to let it get me down, After all it is Easter weekend! Happy Easter everyone.

 

[Barren Realms 007]

I would cry for a few minutes like I did with mic over his containers and then I would be hitting the roof and the blood pressure would peak the scale. Shipping charges like that and to get a broken container. Shipping charges were way out of line IMHO.

 

[shyknee]

Canadians can not order anything from US by UPS (their charges for customs and fees are just stupid)

Just use regular post USPS even express is cheaper in the end. I will never use UPS again :x

 

[jimdoc]

I had friends that worked for UPS, and they told me guys would use packages marked fragile to play football with. With some of the beat up boxes I have had delivered to me, I believe him. It may be safer to not mark something fragile when shipping UPS.

Jim

 

[joem]

I do my best not to do ups cross border into canada. I have paid 50% the cost of the item at times, now I just convince the seller to ship my way or loose the deal.
One day I would like to meet the the other Ontario Members in the forum. It would be great to put a face to the names. (eh?)

 

[shyknee]

Tim Horton's anyone . :?: put a day and a place (that everyone can agree on) together 8)

 

[wrecker45]

sounds good .lets do it.eh
:mrgreen:

 

[glondor]

Is Bancroft the closest for everyone???? It is a day trip for everyone for sure.

 

[seawolf]

Have you tried EBAY Canada. I checked for flasks and beakers and found several. shipping 9.51 Can. most will combine shipping.
Mark

 

[Noxx]

How come nobody ever comes here in Qc ? :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

How come nobody ever comes here in Qc ?

How come you are hardly on the forum anymore nick?!?!?!
Maybe we would come up and see you if you would take some time out of your busy life to be with us downtrodden folks......... :mrgreen:
You know I am just kidding with you.I can't make it up there because of the distance,wife,2 kids,3 dogs,and cat.Not to mention my vehicle is 3/4 chevy suburban......ummmm NO!

 

[EDI Refining]

glondor

thanks for the kind words - We appreciate it!

 

[skippy]

I was just in QC last weekend visiting my sister in Montreal and I must say I really liked the city and the people. Is there much to do in Sherbrooke, Noxx?

 

[glondor]

Hey Noxx. I would love to come up to QC. It is one of the places on my list to see. Maybe someday.

 

[shyknee]

Bancroft is good for me I used to winter rally up their between Minden to Bancroft I was the navigator.
hummm....Younger times .

Oh ! or any other place that is convenient for most to show

 

[wrecker45]

i was talking to joem. he suggested edi in orrilia...Jim

 

[Noxx]

Skippy,

Personally, I don't really like Montreal. Well, I like it because of the Hockey team, but I wouldn't live there. Way too much people and traffic for my taste.

Where I live, there is no traffic and only 10 min away you can be deep in the forest with nothing but trees. There are some nice curvy roads too when I want to have some fun with the old BMW.

But the old Quebec beats everything in my books. It's very rustic and beautiful. 400 years of history. Afterall, it's an UNESCO world heritage site...

 

[Harold_V]

Skippy,

Personally, I don't really like Montreal. Well, I like it because of the Hockey team,

I'm cheering for the Canucks :!: 8)

Aside from curling, hockey is the only sport that holds my interest.

Harold