So a thousand bucks. It comes from China all packaged up, in styrofoam, with tissue paper carefully taped on.
Are you willing to pay another hundred bucks for a US worker, who gets an average salary and benefits, to unpack, test, examine, and then repack? Come to think of it, it might take more than an hour, so you are looking at $200 extra?
I am guessing no, considering how easily replaced a simple bushing is.
If I need a bushing or fairlead, I machine them out of Teflon. I have no idea what this particular bushing looks like, but I bet it could be replaced with a stack of washers.
A thousand bucks is no longer a great deal of money. In 2-rail scale, freight cars are approaching half that, without couplers!
Speak for yourself, I would gladly pay extra money, even a $100 if I received a product that was in the shape intended when I took it out of the box. The pain of getting repairs done and the time involved is much more than $100.
Steve, Lady and Tex
I agree Steve!
It cost the poor dealer money that sold me 3 MTH LIRR MU's and had to be exchanged in shipping costs.
I would rather employ some poor guy from the inner city who is an american citizen who will always care more than a person from another country....or in the case of China a heartless country.
