**** Fed-ex, anyone have problems with authorized ship centers?

[njaykaplan 10+ year member]

I mailed an alternator yesterday, and i look at the receipt today, thinking i was charged for the 3 feet of bubblewrap, and i see they charged me 27 dollars to ship an 18 lb package to NC from Florida.. I call Fedex, remembering it cost me under 25 dollars to ship a mojo to Memphis (50 lbs), and they say i should've payed 13.** + a small service charge, which turned out to be not so much of a small charge from some places. Because its a more expensive area, i ended up paying double what it actually cost, and I was told it's "corporate" rates, by a franchise business.. Anyone have similar issues? Last time I used Fed-ex, i paid 35 dollars to ship to Canada before a vacation, only to come back to Fed-ex taking another 100 out of my overdrawn account, which i assume might have been bullshit at customs or something, but without any notificication at all.

PS. Thanks ScottS for sending me a shipping label so the stress was passed to you with fed-ex, although you never seem to have any problems with them //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif. Lucky bastard.

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[Bass Addict 10+ year member]

i know if you ship something to canada and you dont mark it as a used gift,customs will charge the hell out of it

 

[njaykaplan 10+ year member]

They can't notify someone about the charges though, they just use my debit card?.. **** Fed-ex, actually i don't know who to be mad at, because the actual Fed-ex customer service PEOPLE were very helpful, agreed that they'd be pissed and it was a ripoff, and offered to try and find out if i was ripped off intentionally or if they have incredibly high mark-ups compared to the other local stores (which all happen to have more of a hood-location, so no suprise there).

 

[Bass Addict 10+ year member]

fed-ex charging on ur card without permission seems a little fishy but idk how that actually works,what i stated above isnt just for fed-ex,it's for all shipping methods.maybe there was something in the small print you may have over looked

 

[njaykaplan 10+ year member]

Lesson learned, nothing left to be shipped, that wasn't even the reason why i avoided shipping before but now i definitely will.

 

[Bass Addict 10+ year member]

i've shipped things to canada before and the peeps specifically told me to mark it as a used gift so they wouldnt have to pay out the *** in custom charges.i definately wouldnt be giving any shipping company my card #'s.maybe investigate a little further and see if you can get some monies back.thats what i would do

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

I don't see how they charged your debit card without your permission. I had a situation with eghey and they had my info and they could have just as easily charged it, but they didn't. Strange.

Maybe I just was lucky, or it hasn't hit my bank yet, lol! Good luck!

 

[njaykaplan 10+ year member]

To mail to Canada, they told me i had to make a international ground account, and had to keep a card on file. I did not realize they could just charge as they did, as plenty of companys have a habit of keeping a card on file.

 

[Bass Addict 10+ year member]

if you would have shipped item by usps,you would'nt have had to give any #'s.simply mark as used gift and pay according to weight while your there.in my case,i shipped a big car part and it only cost me $13.00.how ever if the item was refused or couldnt be delivered,than usps would charge you to bring it back via return address