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Author Topic: My New HH bow is Trash!  (Read 8043 times)

Offline John Nail

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My New HH bow is Trash!
« on: July 26, 2006, 03:37:00 PM »
Thanks to our Postal Service!!
Beautiful bow, sorely treated.
Now I have to start filling out forms.....8^(
   

   

 
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Offline Voodoofire1

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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2006, 03:44:00 PM »
Wow that's awful, sent a just finished bow to so. Indiana today,glad I bought the insurance just in case....................Steve
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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2006, 03:46:00 PM »
Dude sorry to hear that... I feel your pain...
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Offline SteveL

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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2006, 03:47:00 PM »
Man, I really feel for you. The P.O. did the same thing to a nice Sley longbow I bought. I did all the paper work stuff - 6 months ago and nothing. And I mean nothing from those jokers except the run around. I've finally given up.

By the way John, I got to shoot the Kadiak this passed weekend. She handles and feels pretty good. A keeper I think, especially for a recurve.

Good Luck on your claim.

Steve
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Offline ber643

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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2006, 03:50:00 PM »
Ugly, just plain ugly. So sorry for you, John. Just ruins all the fun of getting a new bow - even if it gets replaced in the long run.
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Offline TexMex

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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2006, 03:52:00 PM »
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Offline Brian Krebs

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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2006, 03:55:00 PM »
AGH!! I wonder how much force it took to do that?
 I bet the replacement bow did it: because it wants YOU to shoot IT instead !!  :archer:
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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2006, 03:58:00 PM »
John....
    I feel your pain....I have had at least 3 bows broke by the USPS....
    Did you get the bow direct from Howard Hill Archery....
    If so they will probaly replace it and wait for the USPS....
    And thats why when I sent my Saxon to Dano to refinish I put it in PVC....
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Offline Traxx

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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2006, 04:08:00 PM »
Makes a guy,wanna go postal,don't it?
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Offline Glenn29

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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2006, 04:34:00 PM »
Man that is a bummer  :mad:
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Offline SCATTERSHOT

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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2006, 04:47:00 PM »
Man, they must have run over that thing with a truck! Good luck with your claim.
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Offline John Nail

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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2006, 05:07:00 PM »
Yes, it is a brand new bow. Stillborn.
I called Craig, and he said he'd start on another one right away.
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Offline the Ferret

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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2006, 05:19:00 PM »
Dang that's a shame. I've not had one of the 50 something bows I've mailed USPS broken but I have my fingers crossed figuring it's only a matter of time.

BTW for a self bow there is no sense insuring it, if you are in trade deal or giving it away. The Post Office told me you have to have a reciept for selling it for the price or a reciept for materials for making it. On a selfbow it's mostly labor and they don't reimburse an individual for their labor, unless they are a business man and can provide proof of what their bows sell for. It would still be an uphill battle..
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Offline freeman

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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2006, 05:44:00 PM »
When my new bow arrived earlier this month via the usps, the top 1/4 of the box was bent at about a 20 degree angle. Luckily the bow was fine.
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Offline Pat B.

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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2006, 05:55:00 PM »
Fellas, I sent a match rifle barrel to a friend via UPS about a month ago. I had insured the package for it's value, about $400. My buddy didn't get it and called me. I started tracking it as it should have been a one day delivery. With many calls and many excuses the package arrived about 10 days late. Fine except for one thing, the box was torn open and empty. My friend and the driver both noted the empty box.
Here's the good part, after about a month of haggling with UPS they finally refused to pay ANYTHING on the insured package... All I got was the run around from them. They are theives and dishonorable liars. I won't use them again.
                       Pat
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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2006, 06:07:00 PM »
Sorry to hear about yer HH woes, John.

I've owned 3 new HH longbows over the years and with each arrival I marveled at how lucky I'd been because each was shipped in a long, slender not-so-stiff cardboard box, with very little padding.  The bare minimum for shipping a stickbow is a PVC tube.  Then all ya gotta worry about, is it getting "lost".      :rolleyes:
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Offline John Nail

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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #16 on: July 26, 2006, 07:18:00 PM »
yep, it was in a little, flimsy box. Tips were padded good, and I suppose they really had to work at it to break it.
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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #17 on: July 26, 2006, 07:26:00 PM »
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Originally posted by John Nail:
yep, it was in a little, flimsy box. Tips were padded good, and I suppose they really had to work at it to break it.
You might be surprised at how easy it is to bust up a bow that's boxed in *paper* (cardboard).  The way shipping vendors store and throw around our goods, it's no wonder that they don't have 100% safe and sound shipments.  Grrr.
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Offline Ray Hammond

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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #18 on: July 26, 2006, 07:33:00 PM »
The thing you have to remember about UPS especially, is that ground shipments and third day select are loaded BY CONVEYOR BELTS into a 45 foot trailer with an aluminum deck floor.

That's right...your bow rides up a conveyor belt and falls from eight feet to the bottom of the trailer...and right behind it could be a 50 lb five gallon pail of paint, or quick cement, or a box with axes in it, or whatever. That lands ON TOP OF YOUR BOW.

The only way to responsibly ship bows is PVC if its a longbow, or package your TD bow in an arrow box, then put the arrow box inside a bigger box with lots of peanuts around it. Make sure the box INSIDE is marked to destination as well, in case they tear up your outer container.
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Re: My New HH bow is Trash!
« Reply #19 on: July 26, 2006, 07:53:00 PM »
Ray's got it dead RIGHT.
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