So what's going on with this buy? Is it happening?
Ehsan Pakistan Top
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Good question, whats's the good news SouthBoston? Is Ehsan on board, what's the time frame, are we shipping through his new supplier, direct to you, what?
Payment?????
Updates????
just anxious
Payment?????
Updates????
just anxious
Reedo311
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Sorry for the lack of activity, I am currently out of the country, so I might be in and out for the next week.
My thoughts are, air or sea i don't really care but i would rather have the top sooner and pay a little extra than opposed to waiting a long time and paying a little less. I am in no big hurry so whatever the group decides i guess works for me.
My thoughts are, air or sea i don't really care but i would rather have the top sooner and pay a little extra than opposed to waiting a long time and paying a little less. I am in no big hurry so whatever the group decides i guess works for me.
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Update??
Update??
The air price is much higher than the other group orders paid, $3,800-$4,500. Which works out to be more than $250 per top. Sea shipping is $2,500, or around $160 each. What does everyone want to do?
$90 to get it 4 weeks sooner......put me down for air freighting it...
if i am correct that doesn't include shipping from boston to wherever it needs to go after that... but anyways i'll do what ever the group wants. I don't have a truck to put it all on yet so it doesn't really matter to me...
Correct. It does not include shipping to you.
I gotta concur with the additional $90 bucks for a month sooner.
That makes two of us, how 'bout the rest of you?
That makes two of us, how 'bout the rest of you?
I will make it hard on you all. I'm the odd one out. I can wait but don't really care either way. Again I don't having a driving 40 yet so I'm not to worried.
How will that work out for those of us not getting complete tops? I want air freight, but it's not worth paying more for shipping than the parts I'm ordering.
shipping will be appropriated by weight I believe.. so for example if you just order a top with no bows.. shipping will $100 and if someone ordered a top with bows and a tailgate... their shipping will be $350.. something like that..
Let me know when/where to send the $$$ 
Thanks for you work putting this together!
Thanks for you work putting this together!
It looks like the 15 top + bows people will pay nearly all of the shipping. The math works out to about $167 for Sea and about $280 by Air. Difference of about $115.
Real world terms for a 7-window top + full bow set:
By Sea: $675 + $167 = $842 before shipping from Boston to you.
By Air: $675 + $280 = $955 before shipping from Boston to you.
I'm a skinflint by nature, and I'm in no hurry. But the difference isn't enough to make me feel strongly one way or the other. I'll do whatever the popular vote is.
Can I get a discount on shipping since I only have 5 windows?
Seriously, $115 extra is getting to be quite noticeable. A 13% increase in total price for a month sooner is not worth it (for me anyway). But then the possibility of damage by sea is greater. Is the increased shipping price the air freight companies increase or Ehsan's increse? I can't believe that the price has risen 50% in 6 months since the last buy...
Seriously, $115 extra is getting to be quite noticeable. A 13% increase in total price for a month sooner is not worth it (for me anyway). But then the possibility of damage by sea is greater. Is the increased shipping price the air freight companies increase or Ehsan's increse? I can't believe that the price has risen 50% in 6 months since the last buy...
Reedo311
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I am also interested in the price difference if someone is not getting the bows. Is shipping the same price for just a top?
I can see where you are coming from but the math just doesn't make sense logically... it is true that the tops make up the majority of the order; however, they do not make up the majority of the weight/shipping cost.
If you figure that a top alone is only about 30 pounds.. the bows are about 60 pounds and the doors are about 90 pounds (just guessing)... then the 18 tops in the order make up 34% of the shipping costs, the 13 bows make up 49%, and the 3 sets of doors make up 17%. If the shipping total is $2500 then that comes out to $42.37 per top, $94.34 per set of bows, and $141.51 per set of doors.
So if you bought just a top you would pay 42.37 for shipping.. if you bought a top and bows it would be about $136.71 for shipping.. a total of $811.
Using the same method.. and having shipping cost a total of 4k the total for a top and bows is about $900. ($75.47 for top, $150.94 for bows, $226.41 for doors).
It is still quite a big jump in price comparing sea to air.. but I just wanted to point out that the prices haven't gone up that much since the last shipment. (yes Ehsan has increased has prices and gas prices have increased) but if you calculate shipping by weight then it makes a little more sense.
Regarding the PM I sent out. Ehsan said "no".
I asked again and he said he'd take a look at the numbers when he gets back in town on Sunday.
I asked again and he said he'd take a look at the numbers when he gets back in town on Sunday.
When the last sea shipment was damaged, it set everything back almost a year, inlcuding the two orders following it. Keep that in mind. If this order gets destroyed, Ehsan doesn't have any excess inventory to replace it with. Not worth the risk in my opinion.
Very true, I'm up for air, that's the price of international business and ordering something like this. Break it out proprtionally by weight and call it good. Really I don't think the price is that bad, considering the product and the cost of alternatives here.
Doesn't a Bestop and such run about 6-800 dollars, plus shipping, say 80 bucks in the US and you are not far from this item in cost, but you have a crappy Jeep top.
It's just too bad the price doubled in the last couple of months.
Doesn't a Bestop and such run about 6-800 dollars, plus shipping, say 80 bucks in the US and you are not far from this item in cost, but you have a crappy Jeep top.
It's just too bad the price doubled in the last couple of months.
