I helped a friend ship a house of boxes from San Francisco to Boston. They used Fix Price Move.
Here’s what my friend said who was taking delivery:
Fixed Price arrived today. After several maddening delays and an additional $600.00 (plus the $923 already due) they delivered. They have been a pain in the ass from the get go. Interestingly, the truck broke down in TX and the truck it was transferred to broke down after unloading in front of my house. Every thing seems to have survived the journey…
When Fixed Price arrived they had 3 boxes from somebody else’s load mixed into ours. The boxes were filled with old canned food and ugly flower pots and before I could tell that they were not ours I had some colorful words for you about sending us … out of date canned food. So far all’s well though.
$1.30lb delivered coast to coast. A bit of a PITA. At least everything didn’t disappear and get sold on eBay.
And all things being even, that’s about as good a moving experience as I’ve seen at a very good price. Specifically, it was a 2 bedroom house. I had packed up everything in boxes except 4 or 5 large pieces that they wrapped and hauled, 1,100 pounds total.
Update: Be sure to see the comment from Ben of Fix Price Move below. Be sure to read for yourself but I’d say they’re a reasonably good choice for a moving company.
Here’s an article about the Power Tool Drag Races. Written by Jessica Bruder. It’s a good article. Click the photo to see the whole thing.
It starts…
My Belt Sander Can Beat Your Circular Saw
By JESSICA BRUDER
Published: August 6, 2008
TEN feet short of the finish line, Barbie Airplane was stranded.
The cheerful contraption – a Craftsman belt sander crowned with a powder-blue toy plane – had been careening down the 75-foot racetrack moments earlier. Then the sander’s rotating belt came undone, stopping it dead.
In the neighboring lane, Heavy Metal Waste, a circular saw souped up with skateboard wheels and flaming antennas, had already rocketed past. Cheers of victory rang from the bleachers.
“Time waits for no one!” heckled the announcer. So Randy Lisbona, a 47-year-old air-conditioning engineer from Dallas, hauled his broken-down belt sander off the track to make way for the next heat.
That’s how it goes at power tool drag races. The premise is simple: Take a hand-held power tool. Rebuild it into a racing machine.
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Charlie Gadeken, who started the haphazard sport with a co-conspirator, Jim Mason, saw the races as a way to get more people involved in creating – and not just watching – mechanical art.
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All this was at the (very good) suggestion of this post.
When I was a kid, this was one of the most “oo ahh”-able things in the world. They cost like $600. Now they have them at Weird Stuff for… essentially… free. It was a hoot holding one.
This is a followup to my first posting of Fully Legal AR-15 in California. It’s gotten so many comments that it’s hard to sort through them.
Please make followup comments here. And don’t forget to read the original post!
Thank you.
I saw a converter box at Radio Shack yesterday for $60. With the $40 coupon, switching to digital will be easy.
https://www.dtv2009.gov/
See some reviews of converter boxes
I want my always-on camera, my black box flight recorder.
The technology is available to inexpensively produce a small device that records audio and video all day on it’s own battery power. This would be a boon to holding people accountable for what they say and do.
The device would have just 1 button on it. The user would push this button and speak to make a voice-note of a notable event that just happened. Once a day, the user plugs it in to charge and upload the last 24 hours of audio & video recording.
Imagine having this device the next time…
- you are in a car accident
- someone gives you directions to an address
- you are assaulted
- you are in a he-said/she-said discussion
- …
It’s really a very simple device. Now if someone would just manufacture it. And that someone could be you!
