How much to charge for delivery

58 Yeoman · July 22, 2015, 07:38:36 PM

I've got a rotisserie on ebay, and said that I would deliver it locally. Someone has asked me how much I would charge to deliver it about 100 miles one way. I would have to take the landscape trailer behind the Ranger, which gets around 18 mpg. Does $75 sound reasonable?

enjenjo · July 22, 2015, 07:44:27 PM

Well, you are talking 3 hours minimum, and 10 gallons of gas. It sounds reasonable to me.

58 Yeoman · July 22, 2015, 08:14:45 PM

Thanks Frank...that's what I was thinking too.

ragdol · July 22, 2015, 11:23:07 PM

That actually sounds cheap. I wouldn't think $.50 is too much to charge. That's charging for both ways.

Beck · July 23, 2015, 10:58:26 AM

That rate sound cheap to me also. I would have quoted $100.
I guess what really matters is how bad you want it gone, and what it sold for.

58 Yeoman · July 23, 2015, 12:32:26 PM

The auction still has two days to go. I don't mind road trips, and this thing is taking up space in the shop. I bought it for doing the Pontiac, but am now thinking I may not be able to finish the Poncho. If I do, it won't be to the extent that I was going to do before.

"Life is what happens when you're making other plans."

Crosley.In.AZ · July 24, 2015, 08:23:04 AM

Sounds fair. People tend to not understand that the trip is 2 ways for you.

I had an A** clown want me to deliver a Crosley car to him, in down town Phx, during rush hour, mid week, for 50 dollars. He acted stunned when I told him : "no" .. I had to take off work, load car onto trailer, deal with traffic, 34 miles one direction. LOL

58 Yeoman · July 24, 2015, 04:17:38 PM

He ended up buying the rotisserie and gave me $80, which was fine with me. I stopped at a couple sales along the way but didn't find anything. I did see one of the windmills in a windfarm missing one blade. I took pix, but my laptop won't recognize my floppy disk

I carry an old camera with me. I'll get it on the other laptop and post it.

I stopped in Streator on the way back to get gas, as it's 22 cents cheaper per gallon there. I stopped at a Marathon station, and it had double pumps. The right one was racing fuel with (GASP) tetraethyl lead in it. The nozzle wouldn't fit into the hole on my tank, so I had to go with the cheaper unleaded. BTW, the racing fuel was $6.99/9 per gallon. They must have some really hot cars over in that area...