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I need shipping advice

I have a very heavy item to ship to CA. The item is only selling for $150.00. The item weighs in at about 100Lbs packed. UPS is the least expensive shipper. From the east it will cost about $80.00 to ship COD per the buyers request. We have talked and I have good references on him. The item is crated well enough to survive, I hope. The problem is how can I insure this package to protect me from loss of the item plus shipping? Can I insure for more than a COD amount on an item? I'm guessing that I would need to cover the cost of the item plus shipping both ways. That's $310 of insurance on a $230.00 COD. Or is the easiest way around this to just insist on prepayment and insure to cover my butt? Or does UPS pay for the return?
mrderrick

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gpalmer
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I would recommend ANYONE other than UPS. The last shipment I had 110 pound speakers sent to me through them. One has a hole in the speaker cloth and four impact marks in the side. On the other they destroyed the speaker grill and actually managed to grind the grill into the front of the speaker hard enough to leave marks. With complete pictures before and after shipment, they have been dragging their sorry butts for weeks over it, and are trying to deny damaging one. This was a Legacy speaker in a brand new container purchased just for this shipment. I started a thread in the best of lists "Best shipper for large packages" because of it and got a lot of excellant feedback. I would really recomend you try someone else, I wish I had known enough to before.

Greg
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