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  1. 12-21-2007, 02:00 #21
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    Yeah......DHL is starting to piss me off. They have one of my units "on hold" somewhere in China. It was scheduled for delivery today. I am about to be so dusgusted with this hobby. It has been enjoyable, but the hastles of actually getting a product has become more trouble than it is worth. And the sad thing it is the shipping industry...or lack of...that has me turned off. I have 2 lasers here that was dropped by a shipper. Both lasers are now broken. I have a lot of money in each package and would really like to shoot the idiot that dropped or threw the parcel in the foot. The money I have in this hobby would have baught me a new Lycoming 0-235-C aircraft engine for my other hobby. I need to do some soul searching about this. Something needs to be done in the States. Honda,Toyota,and Nissan have sub-manu facilities here......why not others??? I feel the market would support it and shipping would'nt be such a pain in the {insert shipper bashing of your choice}.
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  2. 12-27-2007, 09:06 #22
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    Got this today:
    12/27/2007 8:39 am Arrived at DHL facility. Milwaukee, WI

    12/16/2007 5:13 pm Depart Facility Wilmington - Clinton Field, OH
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  3. 12-27-2007, 09:16 #23
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    In the UK we have a saying - and I think it applies here.
    They dont seem to know their arse from their elbow.
    And I bet ya cant get to speak to anyone or if you can they have less brains than a goldfish.

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    Yeah I think they finally got their **ahem** finger out of their elbow.

    There was some riot or something that I heard about at DHL, not sure where that happened though. Maybe that had an impact on the situation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mliptack View Post
    Got this today:
    12/27/2007 8:39 am Arrived at DHL facility. Milwaukee, WI

    12/16/2007 5:13 pm Depart Facility Wilmington - Clinton Field, OH
    May have to request a partial refund on that express shipping...
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    12/27/2007 8:39 am Arrived at DHL facility. Milwaukee, WI

    well guess whoever he gave it to for christmas couldn't make it work or didn't like the color.
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    Well I FINALLY GOT IT! But have some more ranting to do.

    Today, well first of all I was hungover (32oz German Micro brews for $5, you would be hungover too)... so I had no real motivation to do anything this morning (well yesterday now). Well I was up and around for a while, and received an email at about 8am saying that it was out for delivery...

    Well I was around, it was snowing outside so I was in the house the entire morning and decided to check outside... sure enough. Under about an inch or 2 of snow there lies my package that I waited ~3 weeks for. International Express my ass... Please excuse the language

    Well thats my DHL rant... I will be posting a full review of this laser in another thread. Enjoy! Lets put it this way... I am really happy

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    May have to request a partial refund on that express shipping...
    Yeah Bridge is working on that, since it was on his account he has to go through the work of getting the refund... believe me, I tried already

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    well guess whoever he gave it to for christmas couldn't make it work or didn't like the color.
    Ha funny, I was thinking the same thing!


    Ok well here's a bit of a tease Camera flash is on ..... The diffraction grating is there (also from bridge) so that I dont start the wall on fire
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  8. 12-29-2007, 09:04 #28
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    Glad yuo finally managed to get it mate - as time went on I was geeting more and more to the point of hearing a nasty tale.

    look forward to the review

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    I love that you're using a jigger as a mount for the diffraction grating! Now if only it was filled with rum... (Then again, that might pose a fire risk...)

    Glad you got your laser Max!

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  10. 12-31-2007, 01:44 #30
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    Quote Originally Posted by stanwax View Post
    Glad yuo finally managed to get it mate - as time went on I was geeting more and more to the point of hearing a nasty tale.

    look forward to the review

    Rob
    Rob, I was bracing myself for the worst. After I realized how crazy I went when they told me they lost it, I had to tame myself... it is what it is... luckily this was a decent ending to my fairytale

    **dream sequence** Max and the laser lived happily ever after ....

    ok, I'm done with that

    Quote Originally Posted by Buffo View Post
    I love that you're using a jigger as a mount for the diffraction grating! Now if only it was filled with rum... (Then again, that might pose a fire risk...)

    Glad you got your laser Max!

    Adam
    HAHAHAHAHAHA!! I am glad someone noticed that. My Edmunds mount for a 50mm grating didn't come in yet and well that was the first thing that I saw that made sense

    Speaking of the grating has anyone heard from Mark (Fluff) lately? I wanted to buy two actuators from him, however, I have lost all contact with him for about 2 weeks... hmmm hope he's alright
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