Shipped my new Spyder from Mo to California...
I recently bought a 2nd Spyder and had it shipped from Missouri (Where it resided with it's former owner) to California. Prior to shipping, I inquired on this site about a good bike shipper. I went with the recommended Haulbikes.com (Daily Direct). The Spyder was due to be picked up from the former owner Oct 7-9 but was delayed until Oct 11th, where it was picked up and sent to a warehouse in Wisconsin to be routed on a truck for California. It arrived in Wisconsin on October 14th and sat in the warehouse until October 30th (which was the day it was supposed to arrive at my house in California). The day it was due to arrive to me, I get an e-mail saying the delivery was delayed until November 9-11th. Like any guy/gal who get's a new toy, I was excited to have my Spyder delivered, but this shipping experience has me wanting to NEVER buy a big-ticket item out of state ever again!!! Throughout the whole ordeal, I had to call for updates and progress checks, even though I kept being reassured with words like "I will let you know as soon as the status changes". Each time I got "I was about to call you and let you know..."
I will be the 1st to admit that my experience may not be the average one...but I struck a deal to buy a bike on September 12th...and here on October 31st I still don't have my 2nd Spyder (And am a thousand dollars lighter to boot). Had I known the pickup was going to be delayed, then the bike would sit in a warehouse for 2 weeks, THEN the agreed delivery date of 10/30/ would be pushed back to 11/9-11/11, I might've just drained the fluids and gone with one of the other shippers. At the time, draining all the fluids from the Spyder to ship her seemed like a pain, but in retrospect maybe I should've gone that route.
One of the members on this forum offered to go get the bike & drive it back to be for a fee. In retrospect, I wish I had taken him up on the offer!
The only reason I didn't drive down myself was because there were severe storms in the Midwest at the time and I didn't want to be caught on the Spyder in a torrential downpour.
I have a feeling all of these sour grapes will be forgotten fairly quickly once Charlotte is finally delivered...but in the meantime, i'm a slightly bitter owner of 2 Spyders who is only in physical possession of one of them:banghead:
Similar experiance with Haulbikes
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Spyder Tony
I recently bought a 2nd Spyder and had it shipped from Missouri (Where it resided with it's former owner) to California. Prior to shipping, I inquired on this site about a good bike shipper. I went with the recommended Haulbikes.com (Daily Direct). The Spyder was due to be picked up from the former owner Oct 7-9 but was delayed until Oct 11th, where it was picked up and sent to a warehouse in Wisconsin to be routed on a truck for California. It arrived in Wisconsin on October 14th and sat in the warehouse until October 30th (which was the day it was supposed to arrive at my house in California). The day it was due to arrive to me, I get an e-mail saying the delivery was delayed until November 9-11th. Like any guy/gal who get's a new toy, I was excited to have my Spyder delivered, but this shipping experience has me wanting to NEVER buy a big-ticket item out of state ever again!!! Throughout the whole ordeal, I had to call for updates and progress checks, even though I kept being reassured with words like "I will let you know as soon as the status changes". Each time I got "I was about to call you and let you know..."
I will be the 1st to admit that my experience may not be the average one...but I struck a deal to buy a bike on September 12th...and here on October 31st I still don't have my 2nd Spyder (And am a thousand dollars lighter to boot). Had I known the pickup was going to be delayed, then the bike would sit in a warehouse for 2 weeks, THEN the agreed delivery date of 10/30/ would be pushed back to 11/9-11/11, I might've just drained the fluids and gone with one of the other shippers. At the time, draining all the fluids from the Spyder to ship her seemed like a pain, but in retrospect maybe I should've gone that route.
One of the members on this forum offered to go get the bike & drive it back to be for a fee. In retrospect, I wish I had taken him up on the offer!
The only reason I didn't drive down myself was because there were severe storms in the Midwest at the time and I didn't want to be caught on the Spyder in a torrential downpour.
I have a feeling all of these sour grapes will be forgotten fairly quickly once Charlotte is finally delivered...but in the meantime, i'm a slightly bitter owner of 2 Spyders who is only in physical possession of one of them:banghead:
Wow, I shipped my spyder with them from California to South Carolina. No updates as promised and my bike arrived 3 weeks later than
it was suppose to. I will never use them again. Since they broke agreed contract i felt like they should have refund some of my money back
but they didn't, All they did was kept apologizing . I definitely feel your pain bro !