MesquiteMan
Retired Head Moderator
12/11...Ok, most everyone's blades have been shipped. I still have 2 orders to pack and they will go out tomorrow. One order is still awaiting a blade that we were shorted and that person is aware of the problem. All in all, it was fine. I don't think I will do this one again since it is really a pain with all the variables. Also, the vendor was a little overwhelmed by the size of our order to say the least. It took them over a month to get all the blades to me. Anyway, thaks everyone for participating!
12/6...I have received 97 blades and have gone through and sorted them all out. What a real pain in the butt! They messed up 3 of the orders but everything else checked off just fine. I will be contacting the folks with messed up orders privately. I am working on packing all the orders and getting them shipped out. I shipped 6 or so yesterday. I should have everything shipped out in the next few days.
11/27...I received another box of blades last Friday and have them all sorted. I have about 4 orders complete and ready to ship. They should go out in the next day or so. I also spoke with Suffolk today to see what I could expect for the rest of them. They informed me that the balance of the order was packed and would ship out today. They were apologetic for taking so long but did say this was one of the largest single ordrs of so many different blades they had ever done. I will update you again as information becomes available. Thank you for you patience
11/20...I unpacked the first box and there were maybe 15 blades in it out of 97 ordered. I figured that the rest would be trickling in based on my conversations with Suffolk. As of today, no more boxes have shown up. I had planned to give them until today before I call again. I will be calling tomorrow and will let you know the status as I know more.
11/15 update...I received the first box of blades late yesterday as I was leaving for a business dinnner. I will sort out what I have received so far and ship any complete orders.
11/10--Quick update...I spoke with Suffolk today and they are working on the blade order. They said this was a large singe order and will take some time. Heck, we ordered over 750 feet of blades! Anyway, they hoped to ship some, if not all, of the blades this next week. I will update you guys again as soon as I know more.
Update 10/31 The order for the blades was placed Tuesday evening without any problems. Man was there A BUNCH OF BLADES! We ended up with 97 blades total. The gross savings to the group was $506.81. I will update again as information becomes available.
Update 10/29 The response was a lot more than I anticipated! As a result, the payment deadline has been extended. What I am doing is getting actual shipping costs for your order rather than just charging the $8.10 flat rate box. Blades are light and shipping, in most cases, is coming out around $5.50 instead. No need to give the USPS more money then they deserve! I will be contacted each of you as soon as I get the shipping cost for your order. Once everyone has been contacted I will post a new message with the payment deadline. Thanks!
Update 10/27 Wow! We have 70 blades already! I thought we might have a hard time getting the 30 required! Anyway, I have sent everyone an e-mail who has placed an order as of midnight central time Friday night. If you did not get an e-mail, please let me know. I will be sending everyone a message tomorrow with your total, including shipping and paypal. Please paypal me ASAP as soon as you get your total so I can get the order placed.
Update 10/27 we are currently at 50 blades so the minimum has been met to get the best discount! In light of that fact, the group buy will close as planned on Saturday at noon, central time!
I spoke to the nice people at Timberwolf today and they said mix and match on sizes, lengths, and series is no problem so the Group Buy is a go. Here are the terms:
We get a 30% discount with 30 or more blades!! This is for the Timberwolf AS and PC series blades only. The maximum discount on 1/8" blades is 25% but they do count towards the 30 so please keep that in mind if you really need a small blade. We also get free shipping on orders over $75 which we will easily meet.
I will keep this open to at least Saturday noon, central time(10/28) or until we have at least 30 blades. Based on the interest shown in the original thread, we should already be there. I really really prefer Paypal but if you just absolutely do not use Paypal, contact me and we will see what we can do. Payment must be received by me no later than Saturday at noon central time unless I extend it to meet the 30 blade mark.
I checked and it looks like I can get 5 0r 6 105" blades in a flat rate USPS box so shipping should be $8.05 plus insurance but I do reserve the right to adjust the shipping up or down at the time I actually package the blanks to ship to you. If they will not fit in the flat rate box, you agree to submit any additional postage to me as necessary before your blades will be shipped. Once the order is placed there will be absolutely no refunds!
I don't think this has ever been done before and it is something that has a lot of variables in size, series, and length. Hopefully things will go off without a hitch. If you have suggestions to make things easier, please let me know! I plan to build a database with the order information so we will have it for future GBs if this one works out.
Anyway, here are the directions I have come up with to try to make this easier. You are going to have to go to their website to get the information and pricing that I will need. Here is what to do:
Go to this page http://www.ebandsawblades.com/custom.aspx?id=2 to learn more about the different series of blades they offer. They are described towards the bottom of the page.
Once you know more about the different series of blades, go to this page http://www.ebandsawblades.com/category.aspx?categoryid=1&openid=1 to choose your width. Choose your series and width from the navigation pane at the left. It looks like this:
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Now find the length you need from the chart that comes up. BE SURE TO READ THE PARAGRAPH AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE ABOUT BANDSAW BLADE SELECTION!
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Click on the blade you want. If you are choosing PC series blades, you will need to determine the number of TPI you want from the page that comes up. Make a note of the required information, including tpi, and come back here to enter your order in a message on this thread only. PLEASE DO NOT PM ME WITH YOUR ORDER! Use the following format:
Quantity-series-width-length-tpi-listed price
Example using the information below:
If I want 1 104" PC 1/2" 6 tpi I would enter it like this:
1-PC-1/2-104-6-$19.02
I will then enter the information into my database and calculate your total with shipping, insurance, and Paypal fees and send you the total via e-mail. Remember, we get 30% off the listed price and the shipping from them to me is free with a minimum $75 order! In other words, on the example above, my total for that blade is $13.97 plus shipping!
Whew! I hope I got everything! If not, please let me know any questions. Man did I choose a potentially hard one for my first GB!
12/6...I have received 97 blades and have gone through and sorted them all out. What a real pain in the butt! They messed up 3 of the orders but everything else checked off just fine. I will be contacting the folks with messed up orders privately. I am working on packing all the orders and getting them shipped out. I shipped 6 or so yesterday. I should have everything shipped out in the next few days.
11/27...I received another box of blades last Friday and have them all sorted. I have about 4 orders complete and ready to ship. They should go out in the next day or so. I also spoke with Suffolk today to see what I could expect for the rest of them. They informed me that the balance of the order was packed and would ship out today. They were apologetic for taking so long but did say this was one of the largest single ordrs of so many different blades they had ever done. I will update you again as information becomes available. Thank you for you patience
11/20...I unpacked the first box and there were maybe 15 blades in it out of 97 ordered. I figured that the rest would be trickling in based on my conversations with Suffolk. As of today, no more boxes have shown up. I had planned to give them until today before I call again. I will be calling tomorrow and will let you know the status as I know more.
11/15 update...I received the first box of blades late yesterday as I was leaving for a business dinnner. I will sort out what I have received so far and ship any complete orders.
11/10--Quick update...I spoke with Suffolk today and they are working on the blade order. They said this was a large singe order and will take some time. Heck, we ordered over 750 feet of blades! Anyway, they hoped to ship some, if not all, of the blades this next week. I will update you guys again as soon as I know more.
Update 10/31 The order for the blades was placed Tuesday evening without any problems. Man was there A BUNCH OF BLADES! We ended up with 97 blades total. The gross savings to the group was $506.81. I will update again as information becomes available.
Update 10/29 The response was a lot more than I anticipated! As a result, the payment deadline has been extended. What I am doing is getting actual shipping costs for your order rather than just charging the $8.10 flat rate box. Blades are light and shipping, in most cases, is coming out around $5.50 instead. No need to give the USPS more money then they deserve! I will be contacted each of you as soon as I get the shipping cost for your order. Once everyone has been contacted I will post a new message with the payment deadline. Thanks!
Update 10/27 Wow! We have 70 blades already! I thought we might have a hard time getting the 30 required! Anyway, I have sent everyone an e-mail who has placed an order as of midnight central time Friday night. If you did not get an e-mail, please let me know. I will be sending everyone a message tomorrow with your total, including shipping and paypal. Please paypal me ASAP as soon as you get your total so I can get the order placed.
Update 10/27 we are currently at 50 blades so the minimum has been met to get the best discount! In light of that fact, the group buy will close as planned on Saturday at noon, central time!
I spoke to the nice people at Timberwolf today and they said mix and match on sizes, lengths, and series is no problem so the Group Buy is a go. Here are the terms:
We get a 30% discount with 30 or more blades!! This is for the Timberwolf AS and PC series blades only. The maximum discount on 1/8" blades is 25% but they do count towards the 30 so please keep that in mind if you really need a small blade. We also get free shipping on orders over $75 which we will easily meet.
I will keep this open to at least Saturday noon, central time(10/28) or until we have at least 30 blades. Based on the interest shown in the original thread, we should already be there. I really really prefer Paypal but if you just absolutely do not use Paypal, contact me and we will see what we can do. Payment must be received by me no later than Saturday at noon central time unless I extend it to meet the 30 blade mark.
I checked and it looks like I can get 5 0r 6 105" blades in a flat rate USPS box so shipping should be $8.05 plus insurance but I do reserve the right to adjust the shipping up or down at the time I actually package the blanks to ship to you. If they will not fit in the flat rate box, you agree to submit any additional postage to me as necessary before your blades will be shipped. Once the order is placed there will be absolutely no refunds!
I don't think this has ever been done before and it is something that has a lot of variables in size, series, and length. Hopefully things will go off without a hitch. If you have suggestions to make things easier, please let me know! I plan to build a database with the order information so we will have it for future GBs if this one works out.
Anyway, here are the directions I have come up with to try to make this easier. You are going to have to go to their website to get the information and pricing that I will need. Here is what to do:
Go to this page http://www.ebandsawblades.com/custom.aspx?id=2 to learn more about the different series of blades they offer. They are described towards the bottom of the page.
Once you know more about the different series of blades, go to this page http://www.ebandsawblades.com/category.aspx?categoryid=1&openid=1 to choose your width. Choose your series and width from the navigation pane at the left. It looks like this:
Image Insert:
Now find the length you need from the chart that comes up. BE SURE TO READ THE PARAGRAPH AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE ABOUT BANDSAW BLADE SELECTION!
Image Insert:
Click on the blade you want. If you are choosing PC series blades, you will need to determine the number of TPI you want from the page that comes up. Make a note of the required information, including tpi, and come back here to enter your order in a message on this thread only. PLEASE DO NOT PM ME WITH YOUR ORDER! Use the following format:
Quantity-series-width-length-tpi-listed price
Example using the information below:
If I want 1 104" PC 1/2" 6 tpi I would enter it like this:
1-PC-1/2-104-6-$19.02
I will then enter the information into my database and calculate your total with shipping, insurance, and Paypal fees and send you the total via e-mail. Remember, we get 30% off the listed price and the shipping from them to me is free with a minimum $75 order! In other words, on the example above, my total for that blade is $13.97 plus shipping!
Whew! I hope I got everything! If not, please let me know any questions. Man did I choose a potentially hard one for my first GB!
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