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Per shipping, we need to be straight on what kind of service one's talking about. I've never sent other than two or three day rate, usually Fed Ex Ground, and never had a problem. If one wants it tomorrow, maybe $68 is not bad. But I don't think that's what the guy's offering for $68.

You're probably correct as to what the guy's offering, but as to using Fed Ex, it is the WORST here in SF. Besides the bad delivery service, I often had to wait up to ONE HOUR in line to drop off a package locally.

And they used to be the best, too...

When a company's bottom line starts to dive, usually due to a buildup and magnification of inefficiencies that finally bites them, they usually compromise by cutting back, making them even more inefficient. I believe this to be the case with FedEx. In SF, they are using contract drivers to deliver packages. This means we have no regular FedEx guy on a route; it's random and most of the drivers know nothing about the area.

This is, sadly, the norm in SF--it is a city where service-type business are quite anti-service, and many things are as difficult to find as they would be in Minden, North Dakota. This is as opposed to other places where I've owned businesses, where stuff was easy to find and get (and ship).

BTW, it's $68 plus an additional $15 for insurance, so realistically you're looking at $83, unless you would feel confident nothing would happen to it in route.
The price for the 360 WB is more than reasonable, if it's in as good as condition as the seller says.

Interesting insights as to the biggest shippers. I work for a company that does work for one of their competitors. Considering the domestic US shipping business is more competitive than ever, I don't see how Fed Ex or anyone else can afford to slip any further. If anything, you'd think they would be better. Far as the price on this particular guitar, it could be reasonable for today's prices. Could be cheap compared to next year's prices. And it could be expensive compared to 2008 prices, whatever they may be. So, I'm still sticking to my theory that used guitar prices, like prices of most all things, fall significantly in a down economy. And that's fall, not stagnate. And that goes even moreso for the kind of prices you see today (bubble city.) As far as "vibe" goes, if John Lennon could speak to us from the great beyond, as history's most significant player of Rics, I bet he'd have a thing or two to say about anything made in 1980, and it would not be good.