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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: Bicpug on February 28, 2013, 05:06:18 PM
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Hello,
Does anyone have experience with sending Amigas to Europe? I'm trying to find a sensible price, the PO quoted £122 to send an a1200 magic pack to Europe which seems ridiculous to me. (tracked with £200 value)
Anyone got a cheaper service they've used and had no problems with?
Thanks
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Try http://www.parcel2go.com service. For example quote for Parcelforce Euro Priority is around £30.
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Try http://www.parcel2go.com service. For example quote for Parcelforce Euro Priority is around £30.
Only thing with that is they sometimes employ MyHermes as the end courier. MyHermes is simply THE WORST courier for negligence/damage and not caring afterwords. I speak from multiple bad experiences. I wouldn't use them if they where the last courier on earth.
Wondering why? example - my current A4000 was shipped by them from Germany to the Uk. It was rejected in the tracking information on 3 occasions (days) by the local delivery officer (person in a car) for being too big !?!
On the fourth attempt, it changed to the status of 'Delivered'. Not so, I had not received it.
No possibility to get in contact with them, no telephone number, no email address, no nothing. I eventually got quite irrate and called the only number I could find on the internet for them which was for the head office type place.
Spoke to a receptionist who hung up on me while I tried to explain. Called back and spoke to 'someone' who would only say contact the seller. Spoke to a manager who wasn't interested and told me 'it's not my place to complain, it's the sellers'.
A day later an old lady knocks at my door to say that she thought she had something of mine, so I went with her back to her place to find that my A4k had been dumped at her front door, in the rain, nicely open to theft. (Thank you for your honesty old lady)
However, despite being well packed in 2 boxes the A4k had had it's plastic front smashed in and was wet.
I contacted the seller who basically said 'send it back for a refund' (yeah right), I also sent MYHermes a letter which was never replied to.
Shower of Tw*ats! top to bottom.
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Only thing with that is they sometimes employ MyHermes as the end courier. MyHermes is simply THE WORST courier for negligence/damage and not caring afterwords. I speak from multiple bad experiences. I wouldn't use them if they where the last courier on earth.
parcel2go is just a comparison site, they'll only use myhermes if you select them. I usually use parce2go but select someone like parcelforce/fedex/tnt/city link/ups as it's usually cheaper than going to them direct. All the couriers make mistakes, but I tend to go for the ones I've heard of. I wouldn't use yodel either. I have also used collect+ for sending within the UK and that actually went ok and was cheaper than royalmail.
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I use Parcel2Go.com for all my courier postings in my business and I've had very very few problems with them. I had trouble with Yodel so I don't use them any more.
For inland:
Next day I use TNT. Three day I use MyHermes.
For Europe:
I use UPS or TNT
For America:
I use UPS
For Australia:
I use FedEx.
I have very few problems these days; as long as you stick to known couriers you're usually fine. And for reference, to Europe from the UK would be about £30 by UPS I believe, and it's reliable.
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The sticking point seems to be the size of the package, not the weight. TNT quoted over £300 for 3 day delivery which is ludicrous.
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How big is your package? I've sent some very large boxes for less than £30...
Are you sure you put the measurements in cm and not inches? :)
I've just shipped an Amiga 1200 including PSU, mouse, manuals to the Czech Republic. It cost me £25 + £5 VAT via UPS for 3(ish) day service. If you're getting quoted £300 then you're doing something badly wrong!
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Its a standard a1200 magic pack box, in a slightly bigger amazon cardboard packing box.
No bigger or heavier than the average 24" tft monitor packed in its packaging.
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What's the dimensions and weight of the package, and which country are you sending it to?
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Hi,
66cm x 52cm x 22cm and just under 8kg.
to Belgrade, Serbia.
Spirantho: i saw the repair shop thingy in your sig for http://www.mutant-caterpillar.co.uk/shop/ ... do the pices include you working out whats actually wrong with a c64? or do we need to have worked that out before sending?
Thanks
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Hi,
66cm x 52cm x 22cm and just under 8kg.
to Belgrade, Serbia.
Spirantho: i saw the repair shop thingy in your sig for http://www.mutant-caterpillar.co.uk/shop/ ... do the pices include you working out whats actually wrong with a c64? or do we need to have worked that out before sending?
Thanks
Might have something to do with it going to Serbia.
I'm in Australia and getting stuff FROM the UK is cheap, sending stuff the other way can get expensive.
And whats with the ludicrous shipping costs of US ebay sellers to Australia?
A 8cmx8cmx8cm box that weighs about 100 gram=$60 Aus in USPS postage? Really?
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Quickly plugging those figures into Parcel2Go shows TNT will be £54.40, but that's from a business address. FedEx will do it for £60.
As for the C64 - It would be a bit silly to have a repair service where the customer needed to know what was wrong. :) The usual entire diagnosis I get when sent a C64 for repair "The screen's black"... therefore I have ways to find out what's actually wrong - some of which are even more technical than "put finger on RAM chip and see if it burns your finger off", which is always the place to start when diagnosing a C64.
So no, person sends me C64 which is kaput, and I send them same C64 which now works.
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@stefcep2
A lot of eBay sellers in the US insist on using priority mail, that's why they're so expensive. Some of them are ridiculous (buy one IC, and it costs $160 postage to the UK, that sort of thing).
USPS postage isn't actually that steep for small items, but it can get quite pricey quite quickly as the size goes up. Thank goodness for couriers. :)
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Hello,
Thanks all for help, still getting some freaky quotes but i got a few that actually make sense.
UK to Serbia is £65.11 with £150 value cover
UK to Hungary is £32.39 with £150 value cover
That's for estimated 2-4 day delivery.