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michelle

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flying with equipment...
« on: February 27, 2017, 01:06:27 PM »
Had to laugh as I was leaving LAS on Saturday...went to check my bags (was out there for a WSOP Circuit event) and there was some PBA guy in front of me at the counter whining about being hit with overweight bag fees.  He was trying to check a three-ball roller and kept complaining to the desk operator about how they had positioned the bag on the scale.  PBA dude had tried to manipulate the bag in a manner to shave a few pounds from the scale and get it to being 'just over' the 50 pound limit. 

How in the hell does someone actually believe that their three-ball roller ISN'T going to be over 50 pounds at that level?  Even 15lb equipment plus the other accoutrements that get stuffed in a bag (especially to check luggage) is going to be over 50lbs. 

Won't name the airline and won't name the company that dude appears to be repping (have no idea if he was a staffer, although it becomes even more appalling to have watched the behavior if he WAS a staffer). 

It really was the combination of the Millenial 'entitlement' mentality and the PBA "do you know who I AM" mentality colliding full force with an airline employee who was having none of it...

If your crap is over 50lbs, just pony up and pay the extra fee...quit being so damned cheap.  In the meantime, the laugh we got from it was NOT worth the extra wait before another employee came to deal with the back-up being created.
 

 

Dave81644

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Re: flying with equipment...
« Reply #16 on: March 05, 2017, 08:52:10 PM »
no issues with bowling ball express
have used them many times along with many other people I know
they tell you to ship 8-10 business days before you bowl team event
you wont see this guy dragging equipment through an airport ever again