Thread: Kuiu shipping prices

Done any bulk orders for strangers before? Ultimately the cost will negate the benefit.

The answer with this model is to make shipping as reliable and inexpensive as possible. The answer is to make the customer/manufacturerer the primary relationship, not to introduce additional 3rd parties that reduce speed of delivery for an indeterminate and undefined cost benefit in shipping. I am not interested in placing an order when I don't know when it will be delivered and how much the the shipping cost will actually be up front. All you are doing is increasing uncertainty and consumers like uncertainty even less than sightly expensive shipping costs. If I want that I can deal with any existing Hunting shop that might place an order for me and it should turn up in a "couple of weeks" every week for the foreseeable future.

The current system is designed for simplicity for Kuiu... that don't even have to weigh the packages.... but with a developing business and increased levels of supply to markets like us, they have to look again at their shipping systems to maintain their competitive advantage. If they fail to do so, and start down the same road as Sitka, then you will see the same enhanced prices over the US retail prices, that we see when those products are hanging on racks and being supplied by 3rd parties... the cost of individual shipping isn't the issue...

Kuiu also has to improve its stocking levels and get a whole lot better at meeting order expectations. If they do that and improve the shipping options that would be the best outcome for consumers.

You can wait for the next shipment that will be happening "I'm not quite sure when" if you want to...