The Most You Have Paid For Shipping


A co-worker of mine frequently sells items on Ebay. He told me that he has recently been getting frequent inquiries as to whether he is willing to ship overseas. I was surprised when he told me that the cost to ship a single shirt overseas is about forty dollars. Wow! I immediately thought of the heavy audio equipment that many of you here on audiogon have shipped great distances. What is the most you have ever paid for shipping? Where did you ship from and to?
mordenmail
Oregon, You're right. The trap is that the cost of flying to Thailand (even getting tickets through a bucketshop) has skyrocketed.
I had a set of Piega C-40 speakers. The crossover circuits failed. My dealer charged me $6,000 to ship them to Europe and back to be fixed.

I was very happy when that dealer went out of business!
$500 to ship my humane society dog from the UK to here (BA the best)! $3000 to ship her back to the UK by 'CON'tinental (crap).
Twice!