Packing & Shipping Large/Heavy Speakers

Definitely use a freight company, not UPS or Fedex.

Currently in the process of filing a claim for damages from using UPS to ship a pair of speakers from Texas to Arizona. Both speakers were damaged.

Never again!

Those speakers are huge.  Good suggestions here to use professional Craters and Freighters. 

Another option would be to draw a circle on a map corresponding to the miles away you are willing to travel to hand deliver them.  Double that circle and you would have the distance that you could meet a buyer half-way.  I am currently looking for a very heavy subwoofer and there are several that have been for sale for the past 3-6 months, but the sellers simply will not ship them and the distances to me are in the range of 12-30 hours by car, which is too far.  Based on this thread, I am going to get a quote from Craters and Freighters and, if I am ok with the amount, then I will reconnect the sellers to see if we can work it out.

I shipped some 250lb each speaker (Von Schweiker VSR) a month ago, after a lot of looking the best option i found was a moving company trucking section. i used Day and Ross (not sure if they are in the USA) it was 1/2 the cost of all the usual curriers that included insurance. the company showed up, took the speakers (in their box's) put them on a palette and tied them down and drove away. halfway across the country they arrived delivered to the door in about two weeks. total weight was just over 500lbs insurance was for $4k total from Victoria BC to Toronto (about 3500km) was $467 Canadian, take 30% off for USD comparison. 

cheapest currier like UPS, Fed X was over a $1000. 

You will not likely sell them to anyone outside the US.

Get a quote from ABF of cost from LA to NY.

That can be your baseline figure.

Never use PSPS or UPS. They roll boxes.

Fed Ex ground has been good for me for under 100 lbs.

Many cities have professional resellers. They take audio gear from trade-ins from audio stores and evaluate and resell. They know how to pack and ship. Or look for local sellers. 

You may change your mind on shipping anywhere. I found buyers for a set of speakers only weighing 60 lbs and all told it would have been $500 or was it a $1,000… you need crates built… then what if there is no damage visible… but they don’t sound right? I finally gave up.

Admittedly, I don’t like dealing with this kind on nonsense.