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Oct 26, 2013 14:13:04 GMT
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I'm looking to buy a front valance for my car from a forum member located in Sussex, and I'm located in Croatia.
Can anyone recommend any sort of package courier that won't charge me an arm and a leg to do it?
Tried with Royal Mail's calculator (assumed the thing doesn't weigh more than 5kg, waiting on the seller to weigh it), it gave me a charge of 50 quid which isn't TOO bad, but still it's almost double of what the valance will cost.
Fed Ex wants 130 dollars.
Can anyone reccomend?
EDIT: I'm prepared to have the thing cut in half to avoid any "big package" (heh heh!) surcharges
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Last Edit: Oct 26, 2013 14:13:49 GMT by wheeler
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Oct 26, 2013 14:29:40 GMT
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50 quid sounds a good price to be honest. Try www.speedshift.co.uk. I use these for all my pallet deliveries UK and abroad, and they`ve just started doing parcels abroad too. They generally use TNT and are very good. |
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Oct 26, 2013 16:10:36 GMT
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Be careful about length as well as weight. I sold a new Land Rover rear tub threshold panel that was 4' long and carriage was horrendous despite being light (alloy part). Royal Mail were worse price. In the end buyer dropped out of the sale due to carriage costs. Next time sold as "buyer collects only due to size ". In the past I've successfully sent things like sills via Parcel2Go even though there were additional costs for length. What about seeing if you can find a lorry or coach driver who will slip it in their vehicle for a few quid to at least get it in the country ? I once sent a pair of Sunbeam Alpine seats to Scotland via a school trip coach that was visiting Alton Towers (near to me). There is also Shipley and similar courier quote sites - www.shiply.com . I had a Midget roll bar collected from south cost and delivered to me for a fraction of what even the fuel to collect in person would have cost. Paul H |
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Oct 27, 2013 14:54:50 GMT
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Thank you for the speedy answers!
speedshift gave me an error on their calculator, Parcel2Go gave me around 45 quid using TNT and I'm waiting for quotes from shiply.
Unless my assumptions about the weight and size of the valance are way off, looks like that will be the price for it... not sure if I'm prepared to pay that much.
I'll try to look into the "slipping it in a lorry" solution.
Anybody else have some cheaper solutions?
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Oct 28, 2013 12:05:32 GMT
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Fifty quid doesn't seem too bad, to be honest. Make sure that doesn't have a limit on the dimensions. I've used ParcelMonkey and Interparcel for shipping very heavy, sometimes quite bit bits of computer and network equipment to Europe and beyond (some routers to Croatia a few years ago, actually) and it always arrives safely. Cost loads more than £50 though. www.interparcel.com/www.interparcel.com/As above, keep an eye on the dimensions. I usually over-state the dimensions a bit when I'm getting quotes to see how it affects the price. |
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