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[Steve Yasick]

Originally Posted by Cory

Our team and others have had nothing but trouble with MCS. Account for an extra $200-$400 in your budget if you have to use them, cuz they hit us for being "overweight" big time, even when FedEx weighed our crate (with nothing but the robot in it, with batteries and controls) at 280 lbs.

Maybe we just have terrible luck... this is the second year they've done it to us though, and I've heard of other teams having problems too

We plan on $800.00 in our budget because of past experience with MCS. Most of the time when you have a problem with MCS they do try to resolve it at the event. The problem is that your weight and MSC's weight are usually very different.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Steve Yasick

We plan on $800.00 in our budget because of past experience with MCS. Most of the time when you have a problem with MCS they do try to resolve it at the event. The problem is that your weight and MSC's weight are usually very different.

"Resolve" involved charging us $600 and threatening not to send the crate to our next regional.

I could see having an issue if I went and weighed my crate on some random scale, and then it came out that they weighed it as more. That's fine.

Something tells me that FedEx is going to weigh your crate fairly accurately though... I mean, they've been doing this for how many years?

280 and 400+ lbs is a MASSIVE difference. Im not sure I would go as far as to say that they're purposely trying to screw people out of their money, but the amount of fees we got hit with was ridiculous