• serratur@lemmy.wtf
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      9 months ago

      Guess either rich or its for a company, most expensive shipping I have had to chose at work was $5000 same day air freight and I know that easily gets dwarfed by other companies when they really need something fast.

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        Ford once made my company pay 100k usd for same day international air freight of about four pallets. The reason was a mistake of theirs, in the end I managed to recover the money but yeah, there’s companies out there that can an do spend crazy amounts of money to not stop a production line. Especially if it’s not their money.

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      9 months ago

      With that price I imagine it’s freight. Thursday is probably a dedicated truck and Friday-Wednesday is probably on one with several other orders.

      If this is some piece of equipment that’s replacing a broken one the $700 is probably worth it when the lack of this is possibly costing you thousands of dollars each day that you don’t have it, or even worse losing a customer, especially if it doesn’t get there 'till Wednesday, since installation could take a couple and then you’re out a whole other week.