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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
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shakeydeal
979 posts
 
I also highly recommend Pilot. I shipped 400 lbs of speakers from Virginia to Phoenix and it cost me only 390.00 including insurance.

Shakey
edorr
714 posts
 
Lot of good things about pilot and I have them shipping my speakers coast to coast as we speakers. However, they did mention they do NOT insure used speakers, so all riks is yours.
blindjim
3,092 posts
 
sometimes the office personael at the shipping locale isn't always up to snuff on ALL the in's and out's of liabilities and such.... so to make sure I'd advise people to check with the corporate offices first hand.

If you want to find out for sure then call Pilot Corporate office - 610 891 8100 ..... if the # hasn't changed.
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grannyring
6,479 posts
 
I had Pilot insure all 4 of the speakers I shipped by showing them the model number, price new and taking pictures of my speakers. It took a little selling but I got it done!
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