fs: mint conditions!!! SGI PS/2 keyboard and mouse! - Page 1
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author: legacy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 28, 2019, 09:10:36 pm
content: mint conditions!!! SGI PS/2 keyboard and mouse!Compatible withIndyO2Indigo2OctaneOctane2FuelTezromouse SGI P/N 063-0009-001, 5V, 15mAkeyboard SGINO: 062-0002-001,model NO: RT6856TP/N: 1Z147Z-101BIt's located in Italy, at my brother's house.Make an offer in private (send me a PM).Thanks

author: rhodges
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 29, 2019, 12:38:05 am
content: If anyone in the US feels left out because legacy's keyboard and mouse are in Italy...I will send an SGI keyboard and mouse to anyone in the US.

author: legacy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 29, 2019, 02:51:47 pm
content: Shipping to the US and Canda, and importing from there, is very very expensive due to the recent new taxes and added costs. I won't suggest it.I need to ship via UPS because they have the best ration between quality/cost. During 2019 I have shipped something like ~ five hundred parcels with ZERO problems. Hence the failure-rate with UPS is very low(1). But they are not exactly cheap. Cheaper than FeDex, anyway.Accidents happen. During the last four years, I had two accidents.In the first accident, the UPS truck overturned on the highway. The driver was fine, but ... some of the transported goods got seriously damaged. I was shipping fragile equipment, and I did the mistake to not use a box filled with foam, hence I declared "damaged goods" and refund the customer. It was a fragile SGI O2, whose plastic and electronics are notorious to be fragile, and, in fact, it got seriously damaged due to the shock, even if the computer was wrapped around five layers of Pluriball.The second accident was an internal mistake, which caused the goods to be dispatched abroad to the wrong area. It got then fixed by a couple of phone calls, but it caused three weeks of delay, hence it's counted as a failure (2) (especially for the eBay standard of quality).(1) Considering 2016-2017-2018-and-2019, I shipped 2421 parcels (331 via eBay), with only two failures.Calculating the failure-rate, it's ~ <<2/2421(2) five weeks to receive your goods is a failure IF you pay to have a "quick" service. Talking about Europe and the US, UPS usually guarantees the goods delivered in 2 weeks.

author: legacy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 29, 2019, 02:57:55 pm
content: The most incredible place to which I have ever shipped is Bhutan. It was very very expensive and a bit complex due to the documentation you have to provide, but seriously, I am honored to have their sticker on my shipping book.Anyway, with Ecoparcel ... (one of the cheapest shipping solution) the failure-rate was 5 over 14 shipped itemsAnd I do no more use it.

author: kd3pc
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: December 29, 2019, 05:40:59 pm
content: As an ex-SiiconGraphics employee, I have probably installed, moved or replaced thousands of those. Hundreds of machines at one location. Server farms and our units sitting next to a red, round Cray machineThanks for the memory, one of the best places I ever worked, at their pinnacle of success. I left before the slide, my boss could never understand the "clearance" thing or that the Fed Gov't was not going to change the GSA account number to fit his spreadsheet. We lost millions on that one action, as the service just went to an 8A set-aside and we still did the work, but now for 35% less $$$$.Oh those were the days.

author: stevelup
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2019, 01:37:25 pm
content: Quote from: legacy on December 29, 2019, 02:51:47 pmUPS between the UK and US takes a couple of days, not a couple of weeks.

author: legacy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2019, 02:10:54 pm
content: Quote from: stevelup on December 30, 2019, 01:37:25 pmYup, "within" two weeks, if you prefer, meaning that two weeks is the time limit beyond which some your customer or eBay gives you some negative points.

author: legacy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2019, 02:29:25 pm
content: The psychology of expectation. If you declare two days because it usually takes two days, when the worst case happens and it takes about two weeks, then it's perceived as negative, even if it's within the tolerance of the service you are using. If you really consider the item delivered in two weeks, then it's perceived as extremely positive when it takes just two days.Human psychology.I also need to consider it due to the cost. Tickets at UPS are a bit expensive. I am using special care to acquire my last minute tickets. It means I don't usually ask my customers to pay the full price, because I am willing to actively look for a hole in the cargo. It's like tickets for an airline traveling. You might pay less then 50% if the airline company is willing to give you a discount to have the cargo fully loaded, rather than taking off with a partially loaded one.This system works, but it's not perfect, and since finding a good last-minute ticket is an aleatory process ... well, it might introduce more delay, since last-minutes tickers usually happen only on Friday.