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How To Ship Heavy Speakers With Insurance?

The seller of a pair of B&W N802 speakers and I are having the most difficult time finding a shipper for his set of N802's to me. It is from Georgia to Colorado.

We cannot ship via regular Fedex or UPS as each speaker in its box is around 195lbs. Fedex and UPS limit their shipments to 150lbs per parcel.

When you move up to their freight services they only insure their packages for a vlaue of $0.10/pound, meaning if you ship 195lb speakers, you could get a maximum payout of $19.50 if something goes wrong. As we know these speakers are worth much more than that.

Just wondering what people have used in the past to ship and insure very heavy speakers?

Thanks,

Josh
beatboy77
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grannyring
6,438 posts
 
Pilot Air does personal and has shipped 4 sets of speakers for me. I drop them off at the closest warehouse however.
texas42
98 posts
 
forwardair.com will ship on a pallet very inexpensively.
tholt
550 posts
 
I've mentioned this in another thread -- I had good luck going through uship.com -- personalized shipping at very reasonable cost since shippers are bidding on the job. Worked very well for me and price was hundreds lower than I could/would have paid.
beatboy77 OP
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We ended up going with Craters & Freighters. They gave a very reasonable price and even placed everything on the pallet.

Thanks for all the suggestions guys!

~Josh
blindjim
3,092 posts
 

Pilot Air merely brokers freight or cargo. Initially I was told something similar to the non private sector item previously listed here…. But if you can get the product to their nearest depot (usually near the Airport) they’ll ship it for you. Reasonably. I recall them also having a $250 deductible on declared value.

Do let us know how things turned out and how consumer friendly they are… p/u, packing, delivery, insurance, etc.

It never ever hurts to have alternatives for shipping as some sort of carrier is involved in nearly every deal here.
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