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View Poll Results: Survival rate on shipped frags
100% made it 19 38.78%
more than half, but not all 18 36.73%
less than half survived. 12 24.49%
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Old 02-02-2009, 02:25 AM
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that's a really good guarentee
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Old 02-02-2009, 02:29 AM
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You know I have ordered a lot online, only had a problem once.... With that vendor that this group buy was for. I just don't think the buyer should have to pay for shipping on the new frags that replace the dead ones. It's not the buyers fault, why should they have to pay.

And I paid a lot more than 10 bux a piece when I ordered a while back!
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Old 02-02-2009, 02:30 AM
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SAY WHAT?? I am not paying shipping.... if that's the case I'll take my money back.. not my fault they died.
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Old 02-02-2009, 02:31 AM
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I've ordered from Calgary and Toronto and had no major problems. I have had frags come off their bases and had frags broken, but no losses.
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Old 02-02-2009, 02:45 AM
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I recently did two frag orders, one from Coral Master, out of 23 frags I had two Blue Sky Acros rtn within days of arrival, everything else is doing good, the second frag order was from Fragalot, 25 frags, lost 3 on arrival (bags broke in shipping) and 3 the next day, there are two looking questionable and the rest look good. I guess you get what you pay for, the Coral master order was well packaged and still warm on arrival (Purolator), the Fragalot order showed up cold and leaking (Fed-ex) (almost the exact same shipping time) I don't think I will be doing anymore mail orders, I can appreciate the fact there are people selling reasonably priced frags, but that is over $100.00 in losses in just two orders.
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Old 02-02-2009, 03:00 AM
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I get everything from ocean aquatics (livestock and dry goods). I can phone in the morning and have the stuff in my tank that day. It gets put on a pacific coastal airlines. what more could you want. And im pretty sure wendell has a 10 or 7 day guarantee. I wouldnt know Ive never lost anything from them!
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Old 02-02-2009, 03:07 AM
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I get everything from ocean aquatics (livestock and dry goods). I can phone in the morning and have the stuff in my tank that day. It gets put on a pacific coastal airlines. what more could you want. And im pretty sure wendell has a 10 or 7 day guarantee. I wouldnt know Ive never lost anything from them!
thats great if you live near the airport LOL. BTW, what time does it usually come in? Thats good to know they get flown same day.
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Old 02-02-2009, 03:23 AM
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thats great if you live near the airport LOL. BTW, what time does it usually come in? Thats good to know they get flown same day.
I dont know what time. Its kinda all over the place. The crappy thing is that the house that my family lives in 75% of the time, and the home to my "favourite" tank, is an hour from town, so I do have to coincide any orders with a "town" day! No delivery in the sticks! Being any more in the sticks than williams lake to start with is saying alot.( My wife and I pulled a very unhappy bull moose out of the ice yesterday with two very trustung horses,and lost two good ropes in the process! I seen that danm moose trying to cross again this afternoon. hes on his own this time! That shows how in the sticks we are at times!) Your probably closer to the airport than I am Dan! Wow that went way off topic. (superbowl whiskeys are the culprit!)
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Old 02-02-2009, 04:28 AM
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LOL, Ya thats gettin in the sticks. Im about 20 minutes out of 100 Mile. I woulda tied the rope to the moose's neck and...oops, look, we got Moose roasts now HAHAHAHA but really, thats cool, pullin him out. Dumb arse moose LOL
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When it comes to Purolator, Fedex UPS etc. Live packages are not treated much different then any other package is, they don't generally take any extra care for a box that says live, so its possible it can sit outside in an unheated container at an airport waiting for a plane to load it on.

Also once onto the truck for delivery, the truck is only heated to the comfort of the driver and in summer may or may not have a/c.

Airlines typically leave anything living in a heated area until the plane is there and typically loaded close to departure so time spent outside is limited.

I've worked for Fedex and the boxes came too fast to read any labels on them.

I worked at an airport handling West Jet flights and we did take extra care for live animals, making sure they were never exposed to the elements more then needed to get them to/from the plane.
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