Shipping your Luggage Ahead.

I think it's an incredible Idea SD. I love living in a Democracy, where a bad situation turns into a good situation for somebody else

If you can really follow through on this, and the bags are delivered directly to my desitnation, I can easily see you being the next Bill Gates :up:

as long as my stuff doesn't end up in jersey and your kids wearing my clothes...............

good idea though.

"azfinfanmang wrote:

I think it's an incredible Idea SD. I love living in a Democracy, where a bad situation turns into a good situation for somebody else

If you can really follow through on this, and the bags are delivered directly to my desitnation, I can easily see you being the next Bill Gates :up:

thanks for the nice feedback. my family has been in the transportation business for amost fifty years. needless to say, we have many connections and contacts thoughout the industry. we do have an amazing opportunity to help the public and help ourselves.

Incredible idea. Everybody would use this, especially if the price is better.

I'm sure you've probably already thought of this, but it would be great if you could schedule it and pay for it online ahead of time.

Make sure you let us know if/when you get this off the ground. I'm sure a lot of us have contacts we could refer to your service.

"Muck wrote:

Incredible idea. Everybody would use this, especially if the price is better.

I'm sure you've probably already thought of this, but it would be great if you could schedule it and pay for it online ahead of time.

Make sure you let us know if/when you get this off the ground. I'm sure a lot of us have contacts we could refer to your service.

Thank you my friend. And absolutely, its a call ahead, or book on-line service. We'd recover your bags a few days prior to your departure, and have them waiting for you at your destination.

How about shipping my apartment ahead when I move? :lol:

But great idea man.

I've been doing it for years. It was well worth it, even when there were no check in fees. Good luck with it. I'm confident it will catch on.

Awesome idea Seth. I would use something like that if I wasnt a ridiculously light packer. Anyway if it gets going Ill be happy to refer you business. :hi5:

Thanks for all the positive feedback everybody. I do appreciate it. We hope to be running by 2009. I'll certainly keep you all posted.

With crappy service, numerous lost bags, and now charging not only for second bags, but FIRST bags, at quite high prices, the airlines are shooting themselves in the foot. There is definately a window of opportunity for a convenience company to come and do what your proposing. How nice that you dont need to lug your bags all over the airport, stand in endless lines to check them, recover them, pay increasingly high amounts of money just to be the last person at the carousel watching the last sad bags go round and round wondering what the hell city yours ended up in.
Now you just get on your plane, fly off, and poof, there they are! Question ... by destination, do you mean at a destination airport, or do you take them right to the hotel/house/business of your customer. Either way, if its not very expensive, it could become quite popular.

"texanphinatic wrote:

With crappy service, numerous lost bags, and now charging not only for second bags, but FIRST bags, at quite high prices, the airlines are shooting themselves in the foot. There is definately a window of opportunity for a convenience company to come and do what your proposing. How nice that you dont need to lug your bags all over the airport, stand in endless lines to check them, recover them, pay increasingly high amounts of money just to be the last person at the carousel watching the last sad bags go round and round wondering what the hell city yours ended up in.
Now you just get on your plane, fly off, and poof, there they are! Question ... by destination, do you mean at a destination airport, or do you take them right to the hotel/house/business of your customer. Either way, if its not very expensive, it could become quite popular.

The bags will deliver directly to your home, hotel(waiting with concierge), office, villa, wherever the consumer desires. Tracking and accountability is another plus too.
Right now its a very high end luxury. A typical single 45 lb suitcase from NY to LA costs in the $300 to $500 range, depending on the level of service you choose, 2 day, economy, overnight. That's what existing companies charge. We're looking to blow these rates out of the water, at least by 30-50%. This would obviously make it more accessible to the average person.

"Sethdaddy8 wrote:

The bags will deliver directly to your home, hotel(waiting with concierge), office, villa, wherever the consumer desires. Tracking and accountability is another plus too.
Right now its a very high end luxury. A typical single 45 lb suitcase from NY to LA costs in the $300 to $500 range, depending on the level of service you choose, 2 day, economy, overnight. That's what existing companies charge. We're looking to blow these rates out of the water, at least by 30-50%. This would obviously make it more accessible to the average person.

Now this fee, is that solely based on actual weight or DIMM weight? Would there be a way to leverage size and weight to get the most of the packaging? Suitcase are quite bulky and also heavy when empty (I have a suitcase that is 15 pounds empty) would you offer packaging cases to clients? If the luggage is going door to door, then there wouldn't be the need for bulky suitcases.

"mnfinfan wrote:

Now this fee, is that solely based on actual weight or DIMM weight? Would there be a way to leverage size and weight to get the most of the packaging? Suitcase are quite bulky and also heavy when empty (I have a suitcase that is 15 pounds empty) would you offer packaging cases to clients? If the luggage is going door to door, then there wouldn't be the need for bulky suitcases.

suitcases don't normally dim out, so it'd be actual weight we'd be charging on(and actual weight these present companies are charging on). In instances of surfboards or guitars, that would probably be dim weight. We're going to develop a simple rate chart based on a variety of suitcase/golf bag/garment bag sizes. the goal is to make it as simple and fast as possible for the consumer.

you raise an interesting point about offering packaging solutions. Theoretically, people could go buy a $2.00 box at Staples, and throw all their stuff in there. At the same time, we want to keep our identity as a luggage shipping company. But that is a notion to be considered. Perhaps creating a lightweight travel case, throw some logos on there for advertising, available for purchase at a reasonable price. The type of thing where if you used it once, it'd pay for itself. thank you for the interest. id be happy to hear anymore suggestions or questions!

Dude I'm just waiting for this thing to get off the ground.

I have a high-end concierge client here locally I'd love to refer you to. :)

"Muck wrote:

Dude I'm just waiting for this thing to get off the ground.

I have a high-end concierge client here locally I'd love to refer you to. :)

I appreciate that man. I'll certainly keep you updated. The goal is still to have a tangible operation running by Jan. 09'.

"Sethdaddy8 wrote:

suitcases don't normally dim out, so it'd be actual weight we'd be charging on(and actual weight these present companies are charging on). In instances of surfboards or guitars, that would probably be dim weight. We're going to develop a simple rate chart based on a variety of suitcase/golf bag/garment bag sizes. the goal is to make it as simple and fast as possible for the consumer.

you raise an interesting point about offering packaging solutions. Theoretically, people could go buy a $2.00 box at Staples, and throw all their stuff in there. At the same time, we want to keep our identity as a luggage shipping company. But that is a notion to be considered. Perhaps creating a lightweight travel case, throw some logos on there for advertising, available for purchase at a reasonable price. The type of thing where if you used it once, it'd pay for itself. thank you for the interest. id be happy to hear anymore suggestions or questions!

You haven't seen my wife pack lol! Huge ****ing cases, filled with shoes and 20 change of clothes for a weekend trip.

No problems, hope it added a positive thought for how to separate yourself and also keep costs to you and client down. Down well I think it could add a different take. Plus at the hotel, you break the box down, store em under the bed and no more luggage clutter! :D

Awesome idea. I travel all the time ... this last trip it cost me $65 to check my bag ... and that was just one.

"Vengeful Odin wrote:

Awesome idea. I travel all the time ... this last trip it cost me $65 to check my bag ... and that was just one.

we're getting close. 6-8 more weeks and we should be open for business, helping make everyones lives a little bit easier.

"Sethdaddy8 wrote:

we're getting close. 6-8 more weeks and we should be open for business, helping make everyones lives a little bit easier.

Excellent, make sure you post your company link here. So we can get to it.

When you get a website I'll give you a link on mine, preferred vendor, alliance. I have about 6 sites that I can do that with.

"FinzFan wrote:

When you get a website I'll give you a link on mine, preferred vendor, alliance. I have about 6 sites that I can do that with.

Thanks a lot man. I appreciate that. We're hoping the site is up Dec. 1, and we're operating by mid Dec. trying to speed things along.:up:

Question is this domestic only?

"mnfinfan wrote:

Question is this domestic only?

no, international too, serving most countries in the world. however, our initial qoute system and web orders will only be domestic. international orders will need to be placed through our 888 number. thats how most of the other companies in this industry work.

the sites up! still have some tweaks and modifications to do, but for those interested, check it out!

http://www.luggageahead.com