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anybody ever had a cab shipped overseas?
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coltchillin:

--- Quote from: Level42 on March 31, 2008, 04:58:28 pm ---
...I'll ask a friend who had a SW cockpit and also a SW upright shipped from US to Europe what he paid...

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that would be cool! thanks.
Level42:
Mmmm, well maybe Fozz wasn't that much off on the "one piece" shipping:

The price of shipping the cockpit is mentioned on his site:
Palletizing , Shipping , Handling and insurance : $1650.87

Found that info here: (lots of pics of how it was packed and crated):

http://www.gameroom.be/viewtopic.php?t=10&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

No price on the upright. That one came from Canada by the way.

Now, he won that cockpit on e-bay for about $1500,-(WG 6100 "installed" (read: smacked-in) if I remember correctly. Then that shipping costs. Then it arrives and works.
For one day.
And then dies.

I can only imagine how I would have felt.

I'm currently working on both machines to get them back to full glory again :)
AndyWarne:
With sea-freight shipping you need to be very careful. If you get a quote to ship, say, a 2 cubic metre crate from the US to UK, from a US shipper, they will likely quote the cost of getting it into a container and the actual shipping. This is relatively cheap. What they will not tell you is what happens when you receive the "notice of arrival" in the UK.
This will come with an itemised bill for approx 10 different charges, such as Customs Clearance, Duty Deferment, Port Security Levy (!) etc etc, many of which you will not understand. Some of these charges will be high because the agent will know you are not accustomed to importing and will double or triple the charge.
The total cost of all these charges will be higher than the original shipping cost.
As Fozzy mentioned, you get hit because most of these charges are the same for a crate as one full container.
I would agree with the costs Fozzy mentioned, as totals. It might be possible to save some of the cost by driving to the port at the right time rather than getting them to deliver it but the chances of a wasted journey are high as goods can mysteriously get lost for a couple of days or delayed for some reason. If they have to store stuff they will charge storage fees so you cant win.
Andy
knave:
I wonder how much UPS charges for a pallet. Or Fedex, Dhl or any of the common carriers.
Jotto:
I got an entire cabinet kit shipped for about 130$ from Mamerooms to Germany.. though I know its not the same thing :P.
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