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UPS will do it for 169 uninsured, FED-EX is at 800, the ROADWAY freight service is at 429.94.Any other Ideas?
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Around 4 years ago I did ship through UPS (2 guys picked up) a Pair of Mirage M3si from Boston to Texas without incident. Insured the hell out of them. At 160lbs. each packed and I do mean packed Mirage had some damn good shipping material.
I reinforced with 1/4 " wood. They made it fine. I use Fed Ex for all shipping now although nothing as big as the Mirages. Internationally, I heard DHL is good. We all have horror stories.
The best thing about Fed Ex is they pay claims fast .
Delta Air Cargo gets my vote.A little over a year ago, I shipped a pair of Snell A-III speakers (for those not familiar, these break down into four boxes each the size of a very large doghouse) all the way to Rome (Italy....not Georgia). Don't recall what the cost was...but I think it was barely over $100 or so. They arrived at the time promised (4 days if I remember) and by all accounts in perfect condition.
Compared to all the problems I have had with UPS and FedEx (just today did I have yet more trouble with FedEx, by the way)....these people are princes! I have shipped roughly a half dozen very large items through them and have yet to EVER have trouble. Indeed, twice things arrived 24-48 hours BEFORE they were promised.
As with all things, I'm sure your mileage my vary. But. myself, unless something changes drastically I doubt I'll ever take my business elsewhere.
And so it goes.....
...sT
I called BAX last week to find out about shipping. The only way you can ship through them is if you have an account, and I don't know if you can do it for a one time thing. I am shipping my Maggie 3.5 speakers 150lbs and a large box from Washington state to Oklahoma using Midwest Motor Carriers, their fee is $140.93 including a residential drop-off at the delivery end!
BAX also trashed a mint pair of Dunlavy IV's gorilla coffins I shipped from Ohio to California COD. They actually threw the speakers in the dudes front yard (trashed) and DIDN"T collect the COD ney!!Luckily the buyer was pissed off enough at the speakers condition he called me and said they were damaged. He then told me he never paid for them --- I thought GREAT not only are they trashed and across the country, I'm out some serious play money. BAX actually tore half the box off of one of them. They got slammed so hard the damn wires came loose off the drivers. I spent a few hours on the phone with numerous BAX supervisors to try and get them to pick them up. Two days later the BAX truck pulled up and DUMPED them in my driveway!!
I filed a claim with them after fighting with Dunlavy for an estimate to rebuild the cabinets and retune the speakers. Dunlavy didn't want to give the estimate without seeing the speakers (like I was going to ship them again) Finally Dunlavy gave me an estimate and BAX paid me the full ($5000.00) insured amount for the speakers. They also let me keep them so I guess I ended up doing OK. Just a few more gray hairs....... I still will never use them ever again.
Mike Bates
They are also the least expensive.Thanks for the heads up on BAX!
I've had pretty good luck with them.Bobby Palkovic at Merlin ships with them and, in case you haven't heard, that guy is pretty picky...
Jim
dunno - maybe BAX? check :http://www.baxworld.com/ got a pair of large altec horns for ~$60 airfreight - box was ~30" on each side
Check with Dawes freight. Avoid Consolidated, the UPS of freight companies, like the plague!
Bax should work very professional.
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