Full Story: http://www.davecarrollmusic.com/story/united-breaks-guitars - In the spring of 2008, Sons of Maxwell were traveling to Nebraska for a one-week tour and Dave Carroll’s Taylor guitar was witnessed being thrown by United Airlines baggage handlers in Chicago. Dave Carroll discovered later that the $3500 guitar was severely damaged.
While Nel and me were walking home from dinner a few weeks back we decided to stop in at our local Tim Hortons (Yonge & Sheppard vicinity). When we looked inside it was busy with a long line and we happened to notice two of Toronto’s finest standing in line. So having decided not to get anything we walked on and as we reached the next street intersection (less than 2 to 3 minutes away) we noticed the Police cruised un-manned (in the picture below) parked in a Fire Access Route with a NO Parking sign and a STOP sign right next to it. I wonder where the Cops were at? : )
So I was sent a link to the Wii sale on Bestbuy.ca yesterday (may 5th, 2008) and decided to order a second Wii Wheel for MarioKart that my brother bought me (So that we can go head to head in some MarioKart racing – hell yeah!!!). I filled out the required information and then decided to look for local pick-up but unfortunately all the stores near me were sold out. So I move on to the shipping option – The first shipping option from BestBuy is “Ground” and costs me $1.99 CAD. But if I wanted a faster service I could always opt for the “Expedited” service @ $126.41 CAD!!!
I nearly fell off my chair reading that shipping cost. Ever wonder why online shopping has never caught on in Canada-eh? Because we have some of the most exaggerated shipping costs ever (I should also add in there the lack of big box stores and low population volumes) CPC just does not get it any more.