What do you expect me to do as a shipper that dropped a wedding cake, bake a new one for the vendors customer? My business business is shipping not baking! Of course as shipper I might have some responsibility, or not (if the wedding cake was not properly packaged or labeled fragile etc.) but any reimbursement is between me and the vendor. When someone wants me to ship something they become my customer and in normal circumstances my contract with the customer will limit my liability for loss or damage incurred during shipping (for DHL, from memory, it used €50,- standard unless the customer paid for additional insurance). What ever shipping arrangements were made in this case it was between between IBKBIKE and FedEx, nothing to do with the end customer, even if the vendor passed on the shipping costs to the customer. The customer has a contract with IBKBIKE
not FedEX!