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How To Ship Heavy Speakers With Insurance?

The seller of a pair of B&W N802 speakers and I are having the most difficult time finding a shipper for his set of N802's to me. It is from Georgia to Colorado.

We cannot ship via regular Fedex or UPS as each speaker in its box is around 195lbs. Fedex and UPS limit their shipments to 150lbs per parcel.

When you move up to their freight services they only insure their packages for a vlaue of $0.10/pound, meaning if you ship 195lb speakers, you could get a maximum payout of $19.50 if something goes wrong. As we know these speakers are worth much more than that.

Just wondering what people have used in the past to ship and insure very heavy speakers?

Thanks,

Josh
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blindjim
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I've used Pilot Air a couple of times and have had no problems.

I also like the idea of palletting the freight too AND banding it to the pallatte. A good std sized oak 4 way, 40W x 48L. A sheet of 1/4 solid material between them and the skid will help too.

Good luck.
blindjim
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Pilot Air merely brokers freight or cargo. Initially I was told something similar to the non private sector item previously listed here…. But if you can get the product to their nearest depot (usually near the Airport) they’ll ship it for you. Reasonably. I recall them also having a $250 deductible on declared value.

Do let us know how things turned out and how consumer friendly they are… p/u, packing, delivery, insurance, etc.

It never ever hurts to have alternatives for shipping as some sort of carrier is involved in nearly every deal here.
blindjim
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sometimes the office personael at the shipping locale isn't always up to snuff on ALL the in's and out's of liabilities and such.... so to make sure I'd advise people to check with the corporate offices first hand.

If you want to find out for sure then call Pilot Corporate office - 610 891 8100 ..... if the # hasn't changed.
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