[s-cars] Looking to order rear calipers at reasonable cost

[Lee Levitt]

You *can* call your credit card company and add a new shipping 
address to your account.

Lee



On Fri Aug 11 10:16:56 PDT 2006, Robert Rossato 
<r0ssat0_987 at att.net> wrote:

> If you're using a credit card a lot of places will not ship to 
> anywhere other than your CC billing address.  Places that will 
> ship anywhere you want are definitely in the minority.  It's done 
> to protect from CC fraud.  If someone stole your CC and ordered a 
> bunch of stuff and had it shipped to their address you'd probably 
> wish the stores had refused to ship to a different address.
> 
> If you want to order from them and have them shipped to the US 
> address you use I would suggest paying them in a different 
> manner, such as a money order.
> 
> As for the exhorbitant shipping charges, you can thank UPS for 
> that.  I refuse to use them for any international shipping.
> 
> Frankly I find AutohausAZ to be great and would definitely 
> recommend them.  Never had any problems with them.   
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Dave Ellis <UrS4 at sympatico.ca>
>> 
>> Does anyone have any recent experience finding a good place to 
>> order rear calipers from at a reasonable price?  I've tried a 
>> few of the usual, but so far most either don't carry them or 
>> have high prices.
>> 
>> I had found Autohaus AZ had good prices, but when I tried to 
>> place an order with them they refused to deal with Canadian 
>> customers who want shipping to anyplace other than the home 
>> address registered with the credit card company (I have all my 
>> US orders shipped to a UPS store just over the border from me - 
>> cuts shipping costs by 50%-90% and reduces the otherwise 
>> obscenely high brokerage fees to $0).
>> 
>> Really bad customer service (the worst I've encountered so far 
>> ordering parts for my S4), and I've had no problems with this 
>> anywhere else I've ordered from over the last ten years.  They 
>> wanted to ship directly to my home address in Canada and nowhere 
>> else (and I'm not home during the day anyways to receive a 
>> parcel anyways), but instead of the free shipping offered to US 
>> addresses, they wanted to charge me over two hundred dollars for 
>> the shipping and brokerage fees.  You can image where I told 
>> them they could stuff it.  :o)
>> 
>> Won't be recommending them to any one, that's for sure.
>> 
>> So now I need to find someplace else with decent prices on rear 
>> calipers.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> -Dave
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