smenkveld
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posted on October 17, 2002 09:50:46 PM
Any ideas on how I would ship a old Wurlitzer Jukebox to France.I have a person from France that wants to bid on a jukebox that I have on ebay but I don't know how to go about shipping it.It weighs 500 pounds and I live in Minnesota.
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sparkz
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posted on October 17, 2002 10:13:18 PM
I would venture to say that you are looking at close to a grand or more to get it there unless you are willing to work for nothing trying to chase down cheaper options. I would call a household goods carrier and get a quote and give it to him and let him decide whether he still wants to bid. Otherwise, you run a very large risk of having a high dollar NPB. If, after the auction you can find a cheaper method of shipping, fine, but I would prepare him for the worst.
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
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sapington
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posted on October 17, 2002 10:15:05 PM
You could send it by fedex if they wanted to pay about $1200 for shipping.
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smenkveld
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posted on October 17, 2002 10:45:04 PM
Does Fedex ship heavy crated items overseas? The person knows that it will cost atleast $1000.00 to ship.Old Wurlitzer jukeboxs are very popular in Europe nice old jukeboxs bring 3 to 4 times more than what they do here.
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bear1949
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posted on October 18, 2002 01:55:05 PM
Look in your local phone book under freight forwarders that handle international shipments.
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micmic66
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posted on October 18, 2002 02:04:31 PM
How Bout a 150hp Evinrude and a keg of Sam Adams....
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computerboy
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posted on October 18, 2002 02:21:17 PM
Your most economial means to ship the Jukebox will be LCL ocean freight and you'll be able to receive a quote, but will need to palletized the shiment and will need to provide the gross weight and cube to the forwarder. This will cut the freight expense more than in half, as compared to air freight shipping costs. The drawback to this is that delivery time will be about a month and your customer will need broker assistance on their end to clear the goods and arrange for dock to door delivery.
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aintrichyet
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posted on October 18, 2002 05:28:06 PM
these are the kinds of "items" i have trouble even attempting to list on ebay ... i see a lot of furniture or 'big-heavy-things' sellers say, "you pick it up" and/or "you arrange the pick up service and delivery" ....... we inherited an antique-shop-ful last year, and we are just getting into some of the 'big things' to get them out of the way .. for now we just take 6 or 10 things per week to local antique mall to sell, but i would really like to try listing some of the big things on ebay with a 'you pick it up' arrangement. ... i wonder what percentage of those 'sales' go without much red tape.
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dadofstickboy
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posted on October 18, 2002 06:28:06 PM
aintrichyet:
I sell: Customer P/U quite often.
Items usually sell very well, never had any real problems!
One time I sold a 600 lb. Big screen TV with customer P/U.
The item was located in N.J. the winner was in London,England.
I simply filed FVF, Neg'ed him, relisted, and it sold the next week to a guy 3 states away for twice as much and he picked it up the next morning!
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sapington
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posted on October 18, 2002 07:28:35 PM
Yes, fedex does ship crated items I think upto 2200 lbs. You would need to use Fedex international freight.
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aintrichyet
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posted on October 19, 2002 03:22:15 AM
Dadofstickboy: Thanks for your input ... maybe I'll finally get up the courage to give U-pick-up a try ... another reason i can't imagine us [OR our potential buyers] approaching a freight carrier on some of our huge and/or heavy things, is because there's no easy way for us to weigh these things. ... and the freight co's would need to know that to give a rate quote. ... ... taking the item TO a freight place to weigh, counters the reason i just want to 'list it and u pick it up' ... i would like to sell some of these big ol' things from point-A where it's sitting, to point-B, help a buyer load it onto their truck or van.
aintrichyet in ohio
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