, wow, that's, amazing.... you should be a senior engineer for these guys, now THAT'S thinking! thinking beyond the first degree....
wow 
what are you doing with brown..
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, wow, that's, amazing.... you should be a senior engineer for these guys, now THAT'S thinking! thinking beyond the first degree....
wow what are you doing with brown..Well, of course, to think that we're entitled to a discount of one of our client's is just insulting. We provide a service to them. Go to Asia where the customer is number one and nothing else. Then you learn what customer service really is.
PS: please, sell letters. An overnight letter makes more money than a 100 lb box of ball-bearings. That's why FX is dominating the express market.
UPS employee discounts do not just help out the brownies, the Companies still make a profit and everyone is happy. Think about it 230,000(or more) potential new customers
Shipping discounts are not made to make profit, they're made as a benefit to employees. At FX, you get 90% off shipping, so you can overnight a letter to Qatar or somewhere for $10. Not made to make profit by any stretch of the imagination, you may as well fill up open space on the aircraft (resulting in an extra pound in weight), and have a happy employee that's proud of the product that they deliver (we'd be a bit prouder of our company if we could ship xmas presents to our family via ups for cheap)
Brown Sales Machine
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Hoser--Go to UPSers.com and see all the customer's discounts on that site. How do you think they got there.....negotiation!! This is not a black and white business as to much of the discussion I read on this site.
If I were giving tens and thousands of dollars a day to a shipping company to move my product, the last thing I would want discussed is selling my product for cheap to the employees of the company that I'm paying good money to. If that shipping company wants to use a product discount to its employees instead of cash to get my business, I'd go to the next company because this company is obviously not very smart.
If I were a small company moving 50 boxes a day, maybe it would be smart of me to offer a discount. I get massive exposure that way, and UPS gets my business. This could be suggested, but I think it's insulting to use it as a bargaining chip.
Now if I have been a client for 10 years and I'm not only satisfied, but I'm buddy buddy with VP sales and we share a love for cigars, I wouldn't mind offering a xx% discount of my product as an act of good will.
I'll probably get flamed for this, but whatever. To suggest that we're entitled, or even a gifted a discount is really off-balance. We're owed nothing but the money that we get for good service.
rushfan
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Thank goodness my wife doesn't buy from P.B.
Same thing happens here-the "150" lb carpet roll (actual weight 175), big boxes full of chairs (2 days later I get call tags to pick them up), and the lady who remodels her kid's bedroom-ordering the stuff before the work has begun. She asks me if we warehouse the stuff.
Please, no discounts.
Same thing happens here-the "150" lb carpet roll (actual weight 175), big boxes full of chairs (2 days later I get call tags to pick them up), and the lady who remodels her kid's bedroom-ordering the stuff before the work has begun. She asks me if we warehouse the stuff.
Please, no discounts.
SmithBarney
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Go to upsers and see all the "FAKE" discounts... there are some that are good, but take omaha steaks for example... follow the link... then go actually open the omaha site, from a new window... many of the "discounts" are more expensive than regular pricing.
