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Shipping quotes from USPS, UPS, and Fed-Ex to ship a golf bag from San Francisco, CA to Scranton, PA........ $100+

Not a full bag with clubs, just an empty golf bag... WOW

When the hell did this jacked up pricing happen?

Driver:    2021 Cobra Rad Speed Peacote 9* w Kuro Kage 60g Silver TiNi Dual-Core Shaft 

Fairway Woods: 2014 Adams Tight Lies 14° 3 Wood w Kuro Kage 65g Shaft tipped 1 inch

                           2015 Adams Tight Lies 22° 7 Wood w Kuro Kage 65g Shaft tipped 1 inch

Irons:  2016 Nike Vapor Fly 4-AW   

 Wedges:  2017 Cleveland CBX 56°& 60°wedge              
Shafts:  Matrix Ozik Program F15 85S Graphite Shafts 4i - 60°

Grips:   Superstroke S-Tech + 2 Wraps
Putter:  Gamer -  2020 Odyssey Stroke Lab 7s Black w Superstroke Claw 1.0 grip at 35in.

             Backup - Custom Built Bastain Milled Prototype w Px 6.0 shaft and Lamkin Deep Etched Cord Grip at 33in.

                           Ball:  Taylor Made 21' Rocketballz            Bag:  Ogio Fuse Whiskey            Glove: MG Dyna-Grip Elite             Current Shoes: True Linkswear Motion phx

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Retail shipping rates are a pet peeve of mine. Thankfully, there's ways to beat this - here's a couple of options:

1) Use a luggage shipping service. These companies negotiate bulk rates for their customers. E.g. lugless.com - Just choose 1-way (assuming the clubs aren't coming back to you), an arrival date, and I think you'll find a price under $50 (there's many competitors to this service, with similar pricing, but this is one I've used a few times to ship both golf clubs and skis.) E.g. I just did a quick search for your destination and found this: https://app.lugless.com/pricing/-/-/-/San%2520Francisco/CA/-/US/-/-/-/Scranton/PA/-/US/2020-07-31/-/0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0

2) Use PayPal's shipping service - also typically much better than retail shipping pricing. https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/shipping-center

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Golf bag shipping prices have been out of control for a long time. They were "jacked" up a long time ago. By all carriers. Early 2000's I shipped a stand bag from Western PA to Southern California and it was over $60.00 - Lots of dimensional shipping surcharges get added to non bulk shippers especially via USPS. Try some of the other shipping suggestions in this thread. There have been a couple of threads in the Deal/No Deal sub forum recently on shipping charges. And FWIW it's not just shipping golf bags that prices are more expensive on. The larger the package the longer the distance shipped and the heavier it is the more expensive it is.

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I looked at the lugless option... 42.99 which to me is a HUGE difference. I'm hoping the seller and I can get this worked out.

Driver:    2021 Cobra Rad Speed Peacote 9* w Kuro Kage 60g Silver TiNi Dual-Core Shaft 

Fairway Woods: 2014 Adams Tight Lies 14° 3 Wood w Kuro Kage 65g Shaft tipped 1 inch

                           2015 Adams Tight Lies 22° 7 Wood w Kuro Kage 65g Shaft tipped 1 inch

Irons:  2016 Nike Vapor Fly 4-AW   

 Wedges:  2017 Cleveland CBX 56°& 60°wedge              
Shafts:  Matrix Ozik Program F15 85S Graphite Shafts 4i - 60°

Grips:   Superstroke S-Tech + 2 Wraps
Putter:  Gamer -  2020 Odyssey Stroke Lab 7s Black w Superstroke Claw 1.0 grip at 35in.

             Backup - Custom Built Bastain Milled Prototype w Px 6.0 shaft and Lamkin Deep Etched Cord Grip at 33in.

                           Ball:  Taylor Made 21' Rocketballz            Bag:  Ogio Fuse Whiskey            Glove: MG Dyna-Grip Elite             Current Shoes: True Linkswear Motion phx

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Sun Mountain is absorbing part of the cost of shipping.

I used to work in sales for an OEM. We'd essentially subsidize the freight on golf bags, yet we'd still have customers upset over what it cost them. It was really only costing them a portion of the actual cost...

Bag 1                                                                                          Bag 2

Ping G425 Max 9* Ventus Black 7X                                         Taylor Made 300 Mini 13.5* Rogue Silver 70TX

Taylor Made 300 Mini 13.5* Rogue Silver 70TX                      Tour Edge Exotics CBX 20* Aldila Rip Alpha 105X

Titleist TSi3 16.5* Rogue Silver 80TX                                      Ben Hogan Ft Worth Hi 26* Recoil 110X

Titleist TS3 21* Rogue Black 95TX                                          Ben Hogan Ft Worth 32*, 38*, 44*, 50* Recoil 125X

Titleist T200 5 MCI Black 100X                                                Ben Hogan TK-15 58* Recoil Wedge Proto 125X

Titleist T100S 6-AW MCI Black 100X                                       Ping Vault Anser 2

Bettinardi HLX 3.0 56* MCI Mild 125                                        

Fourteen RM-22 60* Black Onyx S400

Cameron Special Select Squareback 2

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Long story short... after all of the shipping cost issues and different processes that would have had to happen, the sale fell thru. The seller did not want to have to do 15 different things to ship which I understand completely. It sucks because that was a beautiful reasonably priced Ping Hoofer bag

Driver:    2021 Cobra Rad Speed Peacote 9* w Kuro Kage 60g Silver TiNi Dual-Core Shaft 

Fairway Woods: 2014 Adams Tight Lies 14° 3 Wood w Kuro Kage 65g Shaft tipped 1 inch

                           2015 Adams Tight Lies 22° 7 Wood w Kuro Kage 65g Shaft tipped 1 inch

Irons:  2016 Nike Vapor Fly 4-AW   

 Wedges:  2017 Cleveland CBX 56°& 60°wedge              
Shafts:  Matrix Ozik Program F15 85S Graphite Shafts 4i - 60°

Grips:   Superstroke S-Tech + 2 Wraps
Putter:  Gamer -  2020 Odyssey Stroke Lab 7s Black w Superstroke Claw 1.0 grip at 35in.

             Backup - Custom Built Bastain Milled Prototype w Px 6.0 shaft and Lamkin Deep Etched Cord Grip at 33in.

                           Ball:  Taylor Made 21' Rocketballz            Bag:  Ogio Fuse Whiskey            Glove: MG Dyna-Grip Elite             Current Shoes: True Linkswear Motion phx

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If you trust USPS (I wouldn't) far cheaper than UPS or FedEx. UPS and FedEx take into account volume of box, which influences the shipping charge.

2021 Bag Update:

 

Epic Max LS - MMT 60S

Epic Flash 5 Wood

Epic 3/4 Hybrids

Apex '21 Irons 5-7  MMT95 TT

Apex Pro '21 Irons 8-A  MMT95 TT

PM Grind Slate Wedges 58/64

Odyssey Exo Mini 7s

B330 XS Yellow

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Too bad about the sale.

Honestly, price completely aside, I find Lugless far easier than either UPS or Fedex. Their site is just easier to use, and all you get at the end is a shipping label just like UPS or Fedex. Slap it on the box, and drop it off at your local Staples/OfficeMax or wherever they take UPS/Fedex packages.

In the end, it's just a shipping service that has decoration on their website that orients the services to make it look like it's for "luggage". But in the end, it's just a shipping service that resells UPS/Fedex at lower prices.

 

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