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Shipping Expensive Speakers? WATCH OUT

Be very careful if you have to ship expensive & heavy speakers these days.
BAX Global now only insures up to only for $500 for damage.
UPS freight will insure for up to $50K, but speakers must be new & crated & only with a "managers approval".
Moving companies will insure @ $10 per $1K value, but must be crated (if you put your trust in them).
Unless you have "your" speakers on your home owners policy (& you had better check with them first), it could get very hairy.
Just a heads up as I was about to ship 550 lbs. @ $25K value last week & ran into this situation.
Most companies will insure for full value if lost, but not for the damage (that they themselves do).
To be forewarned is to be forearmed.
All the best
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mariasplunge
174 posts
 
Thanks Donaudio for the advice. I'll take it!
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chadnliz
3,737 posts
 
Like I said as a consumer buy speakers from a dealer, it is the dealer and vendors concern...and at any rate buying from a dealer is the right thing to do and when you can, you should.
mariasplunge
174 posts
 
Tvad, are you west coast? Where?
pbb
1,140 posts
 
Yes, that is one of the possibilities I considered, but with the mileage fees it makes the radius for my search all that smaller. BTW I laugh when I see U-Haul vans with the advert on the side saying $19.95 to rent it. You go there and realize that there are a load of additional fees and a minimum number of hours you have to rent it for. Nobody gets out of there spending only $19.95. The best I did was the one from Home Depot that wound up costing me only $27.00 or so for 90 minutes. Just enough time to get that Durock to my house and bring back the van!
fatparrot
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If you have home owner's or renter's insurance, check with your agent about a policy to cover damage in transit. There's always Lloyd's of London, but they ain't cheap.

Finally, if the party who is shipping doesn't have the ORIGINAL boxes or crates, spend some money to have a crate made for large speakers. One per box, and both strapped to one pallet if they'll fit, separate pallets if not.
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