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On Dec 9, 10:45 am, " Attila Iskander"
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On Dec 8, 6:12 pm, " Attila Iskander"
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On Dec 8, 12:58 pm, wrote:
On Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:56:45 -0500, George
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On 12/7/2012 6:17 PM, wrote:
On Dec 7, 5:43 pm, Oren wrote:
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:22:53 -0600, " Attila Iskander"
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Best country in the world - and goofs like you staying away
will
help
keep it that way.
Arguable point about "best country in the world"
And Canada has it's share of "goofs".
_$28 cabbage, $65 chicken, and other insane food prices in
Northern
Canada _
"...It’s not just food, either — necessary sundries like diapers
and
sanitary napkins are also outrageously expensive."
http://grist.org/list/28-cabbage-65-chicken-and-other-insane-food-pri...
Good find, my friend. Where's HomelessGuy when you need him?
According to him, why everything is peachy keen up there in
Canada
with a perfect economy and bad
stuff only happens in the USA. At least here peppers and cabbage
don't cost $15 a pound.
Not disputing troubled "home guy" but how much do you suppose it
adds
to
the cost of a crate of produce if you load it on an airplane with 5
other crates and fly it 1,000 miles into the most distant of the
Northwest territories?
Rom Northern Air Cargo
website:http://www.nacargo.com/shipping/rates.php
The formula to calculate total charges is weight x /lb. rate x
current
fuel surcharge x tax = total
For example: a 72 lb. widget from Anchorage to Bethel would be
charged
as follows;
72 lb. x .74 (rate) = $53.28
$53.28 x 12% (fuel*) = $59.67
$59.67 x 6.25% (tax) = $63.40 total charges
Effective Date: January 01, 2011
That is AMERICAN North on scheduled flights.
InnCanada, First Air, flying from Resolute to Arctic Bay,1-10KG is
$40/kg11-15Kg is $50/Kg, 16-20 is $67/kg, 21-25 is $83/kg, all the
way
up to 41-44KG at $141/kg.
So, you get a pallet of cabbage, weighing 35KG into Resolute and
want
to ship it to Arctic Bay, it will cost you $3990 to ship it. Say
each
cabbage weighs 1Kg (2.2 lbs) the cost per cabbage is $141.
#
# Are you so dumb that you really think it costs $141 to
# ship a head of cabbage?
#
# Per your shipping rates above, why would you put it onto
# a pallet. The heavier the weight, the more you're saying they
# charge you PER KG. So, send it one cabbage at a time
# and it will cost a lot less.
Yup
I can just see a grocer individually wrapping and shipping cabbages
separately
And you are foolish enough to imagine that the cargo service will not
start
charging a minimum ?
#
# A grocer doesn't wrap up cabbages, the produce
# supplier does.
Redirection noted and ignored
# It was Clare who came up with the silly
# number of $141 to ship a single cabbage 200 miles.
She also supplied the rate chart from which it was derived
# And I'm the foolish one?
Actually you are
# All I did was point out it's obviously BS
And obviously you were wrong
But then armchair Monday Morning quarterbacks usually are.
# and that he based it in part on shipping a pallet of cabbages.
# The shipping rate he posted is less for smaller loads.
# So, yes, the produce shipper would package them
# in smaller packages. The one head at a time was a
# sarcastic exageration, which was obviously too much
# for you to compute. You swallowed the $141 BS, quite
# nicely though.
#
The difference between you and people who have actually been up there is
that you are ignorant
#
# So, you're actually with Clare that it costs $141 to
# ship one head of cabbage 200 miles. Is that what you
# saw when you were there? That cabbage costs more
# than $141 a head? Boy, you really are stupid.
How could I be stupid after you have cornered the market for stupid ?
But to get back to your stupid post
The original info was:
++ InnCanada, First Air, flying from Resolute to Arctic Bay,1-10KG is
++ $40/kg11-15Kg is $50/Kg, 16-20 is $67/kg, 21-25 is $83/kg, all the
way
++ up to 41-44KG at $141/kg.
++
++ So, you get a pallet of cabbage, weighing 35KG into Resolute and want
++ to ship it to Arctic Bay, it will cost you $3990 to ship it. Say each
++ cabbage weighs 1Kg (2.2 lbs) the cost per cabbage is $141.
++
I notice that you have NEITHER challenged that shipping rates provided or
the calculations derived
That is THE ONLY WAY, you can prove that the estimate of $141 per cabbage
for 35 1kg cabbages would be $141 per cabbage
So, instead of just yammering like a stupid fool suffering from verbal
diarhea, feel free to demonstrate that the rate data provided is wrong.
That is what the transporter CHARGES to ship stuff up there
Notice also that you forget to include the costs of shipping to Resolute,
which by the way is NOT FREE eitther.
#
# Fool, even per the rate table, it would cost $40 to ship a
# cabbage just 200 miles, not the $141 that Clare came up with and you
# bought in to. I had to tell the both of you that IF those rates
# are real, then the obvious thing to do is ship them one
# cabbage at a time. One cabbage weighs 1kg. So, it
# costs $40. Are you that stupid?
I'm sorry that you can't follow a simple mathematical argument
Why don't you come back when you have learned how to do that instead of
just spouting ignorant drivel
#
# As for not including the shipping to Resolute, again fool,
# I didn't come up with the example. It was Clare that came up with
# the example and chose looking at the cost of that
And you have still to demonstrate it was false.
Come back when you can do that
shipment from Resolute to Arctic Bay.
But you know what
If everyone can shop their cabbage for $141 per and you figure out how to do
it for $40 per
YOu now have a potential profit of $100 per
Here's your chance to make a killing and become the Cabbage King of more
than Alt.home.repair
Good luck on your business venture.
But it is funny to see you spin and pontificate to cover for your
ignorance.
If as you claim the service could be provided cheaper, you would have
some
guy in a plane flying crates of cabbages up there and making a fortune
Well, obviously someone is, fool. Or do you still believe
that cabbages sell for $141+ due to shipping costs?
Moving of goalposts noted
No, just a good dose of reality. BTW, who says those shipping
costs are the costs that a volume shipper of goods actually pays?
That there are not substantial discounts? That those posted
rates are for the walk-in guy who sends one or two packages
a year? You and Clare have heard of volume discounts, right?
And on top of all that, the point of my jab at HomeLessGuy from
Canada was that if goods like a cabbage were selling for $16
anywhere in the USA, for whatever reason, he'd be bitching and
using it as an obvious defect and serious problem in the USA.
That part of the whole thing went right over your pointed little
head.