Shipping Damage

admin · Post by **admin** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:31 am

Andrew: A very good idea. No "dints" for wints.

ratso · Post by **ratso** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:30 am

Thanks Andrew for your suggestion it's a Great way to box up a fragile piece of history and at the same time, give me some piece of mind!

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:34 pm

I got a real surprise when I tried to ship a guitar by FedEx Ground earlier today: they would not insure it for more than $100. To get higher insurance coverage, I would have had to ship it by one of the Express services, at minimally double the price. Needless to say, I will not deal with FedEx at all in the future.

Now, I need to check the definition of "extortion" in my dictionary ...

rick_ovic · Post by **rick_ovic** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:13 pm

Gary, I've circumvented the whole insurance issue by purchasing my own stand-alone marine cargo policy, which covers any guitar I buy or sell up to a value of $5000 whilst it is in transit anywhere in the world. The annual premium is around $250.

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:25 pm

Thanks for that info, Darren, I was wondering whether such a policy was available - now I know it is!

leftybass · Post by **leftybass** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:54 pm

Interesting...thanks for that Darren.

harvey49 · Post by **harvey49** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:22 pm

Another good tip - well done Darren! The next time we meet I think I'd better bring a tape recorder and we'll do an interview on "how to save money shipping guitars"

karl_teten · Post by **karl_teten** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:18 pm

The lightshow/UPS ordeal is in the middle of being taken care of. The guitar was fully insured. Hopefully no litigations will pursue.

I understand Dale Fortune will be the luthier to put the guitar back together soon.

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:59 pm

either way-no company has an exclusive on morons hired.

OOOOPS left my LK in the rain, in the driveway. Only the double RIC boxing saved it.

FedUp delivered a V63 with a beautiful size 10 footprint on the box-broken p'up mount. 6 weeks to refund.

USPOS delived an Ampeg V4-BH with a trapezoidal enclosure.

can say that FedUp settled the quickest, funny how a emailable digital image w/time stamp can help expedite the process.

jsm610 · Post by **jsm610** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:45 pm

"I got a real surprise when I tried to ship a guitar by FedEx Ground earlier today: they would not insure it for more than $100. To get higher insurance coverage, I would have had to ship it by one of the Express services, at minimally double the price. Needless to say, I will not deal with FedEx at all in the future. "

Same thing happened to me today. $100 max on FedEx ground, $500 max on air...