I'm developing a Luggage Delivery business with a few partners. It now often costs $40 for the first bag and up to $125 to check your bags at the airport on your flight. Luggage Ahead will be a first class service where a major overnight carrier collects your bag before your trip, and has it waiting for you at your destination. There are currently luggage companies out there doing this same service, but at astronomical prices. We will be able to offer much more competitive pricing for the same services, truly making it more worthwhile to send your luggage ahead, rather than paying to wait and check it at the airport. We hope to be up and running by 2009


Thoughts?

Update: We are open for business! We have, by a rather large margin, the best rates among all luggage shipping companies. If we could just get our SEO and search results to be the best among all companies!
check us out.

http://www.luggageahead.com

 

thanks for the nice feedback. my family has been in the transportation business for amost fifty years. needless to say, we have many connections and contacts thoughout the industry. we do have an amazing opportunity to help the public and help ourselves.

 

Thank you my friend. And absolutely, its a call ahead, or book on-line service. We'd recover your bags a few days prior to your departure, and have them waiting for you at your destination.

 

Thanks for all the positive feedback everybody. I do appreciate it. We hope to be running by 2009. I'll certainly keep you all posted.

 

The bags will deliver directly to your home, hotel(waiting with concierge), office, villa, wherever the consumer desires. Tracking and accountability is another plus too.
Right now its a very high end luxury. A typical single 45 lb suitcase from NY to LA costs in the $300 to $500 range, depending on the level of service you choose, 2 day, economy, overnight. That's what existing companies charge. We're looking to blow these rates out of the water, at least by 30-50%. This would obviously make it more accessible to the average person.

 

suitcases don't normally dim out, so it'd be actual weight we'd be charging on(and actual weight these present companies are charging on). In instances of surfboards or guitars, that would probably be dim weight. We're going to develop a simple rate chart based on a variety of suitcase/golf bag/garment bag sizes. the goal is to make it as simple and fast as possible for the consumer.

you raise an interesting point about offering packaging solutions. Theoretically, people could go buy a $2.00 box at Staples, and throw all their stuff in there. At the same time, we want to keep our identity as a luggage shipping company. But that is a notion to be considered. Perhaps creating a lightweight travel case, throw some logos on there for advertising, available for purchase at a reasonable price. The type of thing where if you used it once, it'd pay for itself. thank you for the interest. id be happy to hear anymore suggestions or questions!

 

I appreciate that man. I'll certainly keep you updated. The goal is still to have a tangible operation running by Jan. 09'.

 

we're getting close. 6-8 more weeks and we should be open for business, helping make everyones lives a little bit easier.

 

Thanks a lot man. I appreciate that. We're hoping the site is up Dec. 1, and we're operating by mid Dec. trying to speed things along.:up:

 

no, international too, serving most countries in the world. however, our initial qoute system and web orders will only be domestic. international orders will need to be placed through our 888 number. thats how most of the other companies in this industry work.

 

the sites up! still have some tweaks and modifications to do, but for those interested, check it out!

http://www.luggageahead.com

 

yes sorry, we had it up for a few days, but had to close it for a another week or two to finalize content. thanks for the interest...we're almost there!

 

We should be up by the 3rd week in January.

 

for relatively young guys, im 31, my bro is 42 and our partner 42...we have well over 50 years combined experience in the transportation/shipping industry. so yeah, there will def. be some headaches ahead, but nothing any of us haven't seen before.

to quote Bruce Lee, we'll have to "Be like water", in the beginning and flow and contort to all needs and demands. But we should be so lucky to be scrambling to fill orders. I think we have a great company here, and have the rates and background to make a big splash in this not so well known service industry.

 

i had a dream you beat George St.Pierre in a UFC title fight, and your last name was Bellichek. I swear. freakin weird.


but lets keep this thread about luggage.

 

Luggage Ahead is open for business !

 

Thanks brother. We're currently fine tuning our affiliate program, where they'd, (or anyone in the cust. service/travel industry) get 10% of the gross for getting their customers to use us. There's also a referral program for typical consumers who get up to 5% or 50 bucks off their next order. like i said, we're still working on these things, but its all coming together nicely.

and if you google search luggage shipping, luggage shippers and a plethora of other scenerios describing what we do, we're already near the top of the sponsored links. now we're working on that organic search result ...which should take a few months. pay-per click is kinda pricey.

but you or her can contact me through our website with questions regarding anything site related, if you are indeed interested in pursuing a more intimate relationship with the company.

http://www.luggageahead.com

 

oh yea??? well we got ron howard as our spokesperson...

and can you say EXCLUSIVITY CLAUSE !?!!??!:tongue2: