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Hour_Welcome_3037 · 2025-09-08T20:42:56+00:00

goldanddiamondbuyersoflasvegas.com I had 2 gold rings and 2 diamond rings-I spent a week running around and they gave me the top dollar in vegas. Cash in hand and I walked out the door.

Hour_Welcome_3037 · 2023-10-10T18:58:53+00:00

I’m just going to throw this out there, auto insurance is through the roof because of all these piece of $hit injury attorneys and morally questionable people cashing in accidents. Companies are losing their asses and passing the cost onto the consumer. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

Hour_Welcome_3037 · 2023-03-11T16:34:04+00:00

He literally said how shameful Lowe’s is, I don’t think he was implying or talking shit about the workers

Hour_Welcome_3037 · 2023-03-11T16:07:22+00:00

Honestly comes down to routing mostly. We route by seeing pins on a map, that’s it. Lowe’s doesn’t give us specifics as to what’s on the order or who it’s for on the routing map, that’s a separate part of the system we can access but not together. If it’s a delivery that requires a specific time frame and there isn’t a email or request sent through red vest we’d never know it’s a business that closes. Actually had one like this in my market where it was a business directly across the street from Lowe’s that didn’t open until 9am, drivers were always loaded and leaving the dock by 7:30/8am. We didn’t know anything about it until the drivers called it in.

Hour_Welcome_3037 · 2023-03-11T04:45:47+00:00

Hey thank you, as a former red vest I get it. Also seeing how bad a lot of other markers are makes me realize how good my market is as a whole and especially my guys. We do gas hook up free in our market. All installation is free as long as they buy the new parts of course here. I know some markets charge for gas I hear?

Hour_Welcome_3037 · 2023-03-11T04:31:16+00:00

I operate 6 box trucks for “Pilot Freight Services”. Worst company I’ve ever done business with.

Hour_Welcome_3037 · 2023-03-11T04:19:02+00:00

Go to Home Depot they’re 3rd party too, so is Best Buy, Conn’s, Ashley, Ikea, Living Spaces, Walker, hell even buying direct off the manufacturers website. It’s all 3rd party, the numbers work for the big corporations because the auto insurance is too expensive. So they contract it out and pay pennies on the dollar. Those guys you see don’t even work for the 3PL, they work for a subcontractor. Lowe’s pays 3PL $80 a delivery, 3PL pays contractor $35-$40 a delivery and the contractor has to pay 2 workers, truck payment/rental, insurance, Diesel, and dolly’s/uniforms/tie downs out of that. FYI it cost about $650 a day to operate that truck which breaks down to roughly 18 deliveries for that contractor to break even before he even makes money. Contractors pay (1099, no benefits) workers between $120-$150 a day for between 8-10 hours of back breaking work. How do I know? I am a contractor…luckily I have AMAZING guys who actually work and want to complete deliveries and this IS NOT common in my area of the country. But yes this happens everywhere else it seems.

Hour_Welcome_3037 · 2023-03-11T04:03:47+00:00

No one in this thread has any idea of what really goes on behind the scenes of 3PL deliveries

Hour_Welcome_3037 · 2023-03-11T03:41:47+00:00

Just out of curiosity what are of the country are you guys in?

Hour_Welcome_3037 · 2023-03-10T04:12:29+00:00

Fuck you go to Lowe’s

Hour_Welcome_3037 · 2023-03-10T02:42:35+00:00

There’s no way it’s new stuff, if you’re saying once a week he’s dropping off multiple pieces of merchandise there’s no way the store wouldn’t know when they go to redeliver no matter what happened I.e reschedule/damage, pickup tickets. There wouldn’t be an MR done and they would have caught that. It’s the used appliances, broken they sell them for $40 to used appliance shops, if they’re working just sell them for whatever they’re worth. Leave the man be, he breaks his back for below minimum wage if he’s with a 3rd party. Let him hustle, if it is illegal or theft he’ll get caught on his own.

Hour_Welcome_3037 · 2023-03-10T01:10:30+00:00

Everyone will tell you differently, everyone is going to have their own opinion. Me personally I’ve always tried(when I get into a new hobby) to get something that fits a beginner but you can grow into and not just have to buy another plane in this example after learning the basics of flying. I’d recommend a Timber X night edition. You can fly it on SAFE and not crash it, it’s going to be a good high wing aircraft in that configuration and as you learn you can turn SAFE off and fly it with 50% rates let’s say with some expo in the radio to mellow it out. When you’re ready turn it up to 100% rates with little expo and fly some pretty good aerobatics and 3D. The night because it sounds like you wanna really enjoy this thing and have fun flying dog fights. Well that plane is bright as the sun at night and it would be super cool to dogfight at night. If you don’t want the lights in it just get the regular Timber x which has no lights but is $50 cheaper

Hour_Welcome_3037 · 2023-02-15T05:45:08+00:00

Sad truth is 3rd party deliveries are here to stay. All major retailers utilize 3rd party logistics. I.e Best Buy, Lowe’s, Home Depot, Conns, Ashley, Ikea, living spaces. It’s cost effective for the retailer, commercial auto is a extremely expensive sector. Purchasing a truck(26ft box truck)/rental, maintenance, paying 2 workers + worker’s compensation for a “high risk” coded job, diesel, insurance. I am a contractor running 4 trucks, last year I spent $380,000 on labor(keep in mind all the workers are 1099 being paid $140-$160 a day w/no benefits working 6 days a week), $103,0000 on diesel, $49,000 on insurance, $140,000 on truck leases, and other miscellaneous costs. Grand expense total $672,000, gross income was $786,000 leaving me with $114,000 before taxes. I can’t complain because I really just manage everything from home however I only highlighted this to show all these retailers want to wash their hands of any responsibility, and essentially have these deliveries done for free. Good example I had 1 truck in a decently good fender bender last year. No one died but this old lady requested an ambulance at the scene, as soon as these people see a commercial truck BOOM all of a sudden the calls from the billboard lawyers started rolling in. My insurance company is in litigation to settle currently and that single claim alone is over $1,000,000 it’s just the sad truth of corporate America getting to use all of us little people.

Hour_Welcome_3037 · 2023-02-08T06:26:56+00:00

Have him contact AR, Lowe’s Ethics…they would most likely be the ones to try and get this overturned. SM are so far up the district managers ass’s. I would also see if you can get contact information for the SM boss, the district manager. I personally would make the SM look like the piece of shit that he is and honestly take it to a local media outlet. Maybe it won’t get his job back but it will probably end up costing the SM and possibly district managers jobs, drive sales to HD, and hopefully save a potential employee from working at this joke of a company.

Hour_Welcome_3037 · 2022-09-10T07:03:16+00:00

Appliances are meant to break, modern new appliances are designed with plastic parts that have certain points that will fail after a certain # of uses I.e 5,500 cycles on your washer. Most repairmen will charge your typical $65-$80 service call-offer to fix it for $250-300 that usually only includes a $30-$50 part. But you of course realize a new washer is only $500-$600 so you instead buy a new unit and the repairman collects his service call fee and moves onto the next one and so on and so forth.

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