mailround segway

[gotseg]

After Zobra so kindly lent one of his segways to neelix, and is sending around a pair of his super ETT around, I started thinkin. Take the best of both ideas! Send around a segway from person to person! We could all pitch in some money to help buy it and then mail it to the first person on the list for 50$. That money can help repaying the people who helped buy it. That person uses it for a few days and then mails it to the next person, who in turn adds another 50$ to the fund. Then after it has been paid for (which would take around 90 persons) we could do one of a few things. Continue mailing it around and use the 50$ to go into a certin "person" fund or something like that. Get rid of the the 50$ and just mail it around. Or hold some sort of raffel in which the people who have paid the 50$ to use the HT get a chance to win it.

Now without looking at the concern of someone just taking off with the ht, what do yall think? Id love to put something like this together!

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[Dwarf84396]

It would work great, as long as someone doesn't abuse the rights to the machine. I would love to join that, so count me in!

Ben

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once
Ashleigh Brilliant

[SegwayUtah]

A Segway HT (i167) costs more than $50 to ship via UPS Ground. Maybe if the price was $100 or $150 or something like that.

Sounds fun! A little risky, but fun for a lot of people.

Chris

[gotseg]

I figured it would cost between 100-150$ total, but 50$ of that would go directly to paying off the segway 'loan', and the rest would go to shipping.

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[gotseg]

Plus lets say you know someone that lives near by who is willing to pay the 50$, you can just plan to meet somewhere and exchange it. No shipping fees. Now only problem with that is if there are alot of people in line waiting to receive the segway. So maybe the line gets baised on geograpical location. Or the segway stays in one area for so many weeks and then jumps to another. So many different options.

I guess im just looking for the intrest, if people would accualy go for this. Once I get a feel for what people wan't, I can start working out a loan/fundraiser of some sort.

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[stevew]

One issue is that you really want an experienced rider to give the new recipient their first training ride in the interest of safety, so this concept might work better over a smaller regional area where you pick up the seg after a training session rather than shipping -- just a thought.

[Zorba9]

Hi Gotseg! Saw your idea here the other night when you first thought of it. Not a bad idea at all except for the liability issues. Progressive insurance rates are different all over the country according to the area you live in. The same insurance coverage I have here in Misssissippi ($88 a year), may cost Itsi or Frank $350 a year in NYC. I got Neelix on my insurance policy with which that machine is covered (all by serial # of a particular Seg)by paying an extra premium. That would not be possible in the scenario you are describing here in this thread. If say yourself, or Zoli Honig were to be injured on my machine or hurt somebody else while it was in your possesion -- I would be liable. Progressive would never issue you guys 2 or 3 weeks insurance coverage on your own. If you figure a way around this obstacle that puts me on the spot -- you are my next recipient of the Neelix M model (if I can ever get it away from him again!) -:)

KOG

Zorba9.....

[gotseg]

quote:If you figure a way around this obstacle that puts me on the spot -- you are my next recipient of the Neelix M model (if I can ever get it away from him again!) -:)
Now before I get excited, does that mean I gota figure out a way around progressive? Or am I the next of the list *goosbumps*. "I pray for the later".

But on insurance. I guess I was thinking that you pay the regular insurance fee, and it doesn't matter who glides. Now that you bring it up however, your point makes since to me. *just thinking outloud* I guess you would need a 'rental' type of insurance. Or something that would not only cover you, but whoever is 'renting' it. Which im guessing would cost abit more. Ill contact the different insurance's and maybe send an email over to a few of the segway rental places around the country. My gut feeling is that it could be rather expensive to use the 'rental' route. Ill find a way tho!

Then onto stevew issue. I agree that the recipient will, in majority, know very little about how to accualy handle the machine. Now unless the person who previously had the segway is willing to train them, its going to much like the first time a segway would have arrived at current segway owners. I think we send around the segway as it was sent from LLC. Maybe include even more info to make sure they understand the limits and what it can do. All that we can realy do is warn the recipient to death of the machines limits. And hopefully they will stay within the limits. I guess that s the only thing we could realy do.

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[gotseg]

I got it, I got it! We could call it "bouncing gigner" like bouncing from one home to another and using its codename! Here, just created this:
http://www.giguphosting.com/glidegear/bglogo.gif

geez, I hope this can somehow end up working!

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[ZoliHonig]

Hey Zorba!
I'm a good rider!
When I rented one our tour guide person put me on the red key right away!
Anyways, that's a great idea, and I would definitely want in. Nice logo too.
Maybe if it works within SC we could extend it further, you know like make other people sign a liability thing and let them have it. It could be a great business, sort of like netflix, i guess.

[8]-Zoli[8]

[gotseg]

Ive had a few days to think and talk about this idea to a few people and so far the responce for 'renting' a segway for a few days has been great! Alot of people in my general area have allready said they would sign up. Which kinda leads me to my next point. If the segway is in an area where there are a few people who would like to rent it; It seems to make more since letting them try it out rather then mailing it across the country for 60$+. But this would mean changing the idea of siging up on a list, and when your name is next you get the segway. Instead it would be baised on geographical location. Personaly, atleast in early stages of this, I think doing a geographical list makes the most since. Then maybe once an area has had the segway to long, or intrest has died down, it 'bounces' across the country to another home and area, where it could stay for a while.

Im going to start talking to some local companies on monday in my area and see if I can get some funding to buy an ht. (any donations would also help). Ive also sent out a few emails to local State Farm Insurance Agents to find out what type of insurance I would need for the ht.

I would realy like to see this thing get off the ground. I know how much I enjoyed my first glide and wished I had it for a whole week. Id spend 50$+ in an instant for a few days!

over and out!

gotseg?

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en:
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

[dgbint]

This post makes me think of that old comic line.
"I want my wife/husband/boss to exercise and walk 10 miles a day".
"By the end of the month they would be 300 miles away !!! "

Now if there was a personal handover of Seg to the next person ( say within an easy drive of say 50 miles ) you could get:
1 Some training and intro.
2 No delivery problems.

Part of the deal might be ( say ) $50 rental + the willingness to travel up to 50 miles to pick it up ( or pass it on ).

Food for thought ?

Michael

[gotseg]

I like that idea. Also brings in a more personal aspect to the whole thing. I guess you could leave it like you said:
50$ rental + shipping charges /or willingness to travel x miles to pickup or pass on.

Nice idea, thx Michael.

gotseg?

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en:
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.