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Are they creative ways to ship things from Sweden to the USA for reasonable prices? My son picked up a piccolo balalaika cheap at a thrift store and quotes to ship it back to the USA ranged from $590 to $900. At this point it may be cheapest to take it home as a checked bag on the flight home in a couple months. Do the Sigforum oracles have other shipping ideas? | ||
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thin skin can't win |
Well, now I've learned two things this week. Yes to the checked bag. With that much lead time he can buy a decent suitcase and packing material, pack it up securely and check it. Even with an extra bag or size fee that will come out ahead. A 30" or 32" bag should hold it easily I think and I wouldn't scrimp on the bubble wrap. I did this with a bunch of cookware on a trip back from Paris several years ago. You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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In Odin we trust |
Weird. Fedex charging private customers that much? I've purchased several items through Grimfrost over the years, which is a Sweden-based company, and have yet to be charged shipping. Maybe they're eating that cost, but I can't imagine they would if it was that expensive.... _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies" ~ C.S. Lewis | |||
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Check pirate ship with ups, have shipped things to Germany and was very reasonable. We used to to use DHL and pirate ship with ups was about half the cost. | |||
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Does he have an exit visa for that balalaika? When we were in Russia my wife was going to take her violin back to the US (whence it had come); she ended up having to take it to a museum in Moscow where some "appraiser" gave her an exit visa indicating it really wasn't a Stradivarius, despite the label inside. If one is not familiar with violins, it's very common for them to have a label inside that says, in Latin I think, "Made by Stradivarius, Cremona". We called the violin a refusednik. _________________________ “Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. –Daniel Webster (1782-1852)" | |||
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^^Thank you, sjtill. Relayed this to my son so he can check this out. | |||
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