(edited to add:)Turner Coates wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:28 pm WHOA!
I ordered a guitar on eBay from a seller in Japan, Thursday night at around 11:00 pm.
It was supposedly "Economy Shipping" from Japan to New Mexico.
I just checked the tracking, and it arrived here in town today at 5:30 pm.
That's frggin AMAZING speed for "Economy."
It flew FedEx, Japan to Anchorage, to Memphis, to Albuquerque in less than three days.
It will now be given to a FedEX Ground crew. I hope it's delivered tomorrow, but I wouldn't be surprised if it takes the local ground people as long or longer to get it to me as the trip from Japan took.
It's not anything fancy, just a dirt cheap ($240 w/free shipping) Vox Phantom 3/4 scale mini. It uses heavy gauge strings and regular tuning.
It got here yesterday afternoon. Three and a half days from Japan to Albuquerque. YOWZER!!!! That's some fine "FREE ECONOMY SHIPPING."