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IronFist
09-07-2006, 10:33 PM
Problem solved:

FedEx Furniture (http://www.fedexfurniture.com/)

Supposedly FedEx threatened to sue... and the guy's not even selling anything on his site!
Royal Dragon
09-08-2006, 01:43 PM
looks like he spent more in FedEx boxes than he would have for deacent second hand furniture.
lunghushan
09-08-2006, 01:54 PM
looks like he spent more in FedEx boxes than he would have for deacent second hand furniture.

That's the thing. Fedex boxes are free.
Royal Dragon
09-08-2006, 05:58 PM
even if you don't plan to ship anything?
SevenStar
09-08-2006, 06:00 PM
I work for FedEx... A lot of us think it's really cool. And as old as that site is, I don't think the allegations of a lawsuit are true. the last time we threatened to sue someone, their website was taken down within days. Of course, they pretty much stole our website design and used it for their own - even used our pics, which still had FedEx logos...
lunghushan
09-08-2006, 06:02 PM
even if you don't plan to ship anything?

Well if you have an account, they will drop off boxes and materials, or you can go there and pick up boxes and materials.

They assume you will use that to ship things, I guess, but they never asked for payment up front. They have a lot of drop boxes around with materials as well, outside of their stores or whatever (or at least they used to).

I mean, theoretically, I think (Sevenstar correct me if I'm wrong), you could open an account on the web, fill out all the info, have them ship you basically any materials you want. You wouldn't even have to leave your house or pay them anything.
SevenStar
09-08-2006, 06:04 PM
ROFL, maybe it is true. I just looked at one of the letters - that is our letterhead, and I actually know the guy who wrote one of the letters. We're not friends or anything, but I've dealt with projects before that he took part of.
bung bo
09-08-2006, 06:12 PM
That's pretty awesome. I helped a friend get some furniture for his new place once. We got it from abandoned houses. I admit this isn't as safe as the FedEx box method, but I did get an SNES and Nintemdo 64 from this one house. Trust, this place was abandoned....so I wasn't taking any kids' toys from them
lunghushan
09-08-2006, 06:14 PM
That's pretty awesome. I helped a friend get some furniture for his new place once. We got it from abandoned houses. I admit this isn't as safe as the FedEx box method, but I did get an SNES and Nintemdo 64 from this one house. Trust, this place was abandoned....so I wasn't taking any kids' toys from them

Picking up stuff that isn't tied down is the first step to being an actual criminal. It's hard to explain to cops sometimes why you're in some house taking stuff.