We had been in the parts selling business, both point-of-purchase and shipping, for over 40 years, and our experience has shown us that some parts are not conducive to being shipped.
Don made the decision that we will not ship any of the fiberglass parts. When we received them as a unit on a pallet, they were not individually wrapped and we either sold them locally or installed. To now box up any fiberglass parts, whether it is flares, spoiler or sun visor, etc. is time/labor prohibitive. The odd shape of these fiberglass parts would require special boxing requirements, and neither UPS or FEDEX offer standard boxes that would fit without major reworking of the box...been there, done that.
We also have followed your payment plan of having the part prepaid, and the shipping paid by the customer, but if we have product that is not pre-boxed or doesn’t fit standard boxing, the price of the merchandise would have to include the amount of time/labor required to box it.
Thanks for your advice, but the time/labor cost doesn’t warrant us to offer close-out prices on the fiberglass pieces and box them up for shipping.
Don Shore