Packing & Shipping Large/Heavy Speakers


I have a pair of Legacy Whisper XDS's I'm wanting to sell. They measure 63x17x13 and probably weigh about 200lbs (or more), so extremely large. Most of the advice I've read is simply to crate them on a pallet and then ship freight; but how to go about that? I know for freight shipping there are websites to get quotes, but it's really the packing aspect I'm concerned about having never tried to pack anything this large. 

no1willfan

Showing 2 responses by mitch2

Those speakers are huge.  Good suggestions here to use professional Craters and Freighters. 

Another option would be to draw a circle on a map corresponding to the miles away you are willing to travel to hand deliver them.  Double that circle and you would have the distance that you could meet a buyer half-way.  I am currently looking for a very heavy subwoofer and there are several that have been for sale for the past 3-6 months, but the sellers simply will not ship them and the distances to me are in the range of 12-30 hours by car, which is too far.  Based on this thread, I am going to get a quote from Craters and Freighters and, if I am ok with the amount, then I will reconnect the sellers to see if we can work it out.

This all gets back to doing whatever you can to prevent shipping damage in the first place, because once it gets damaged you have lost, insurance or not.

There is a reason Vladimir Lamm packaged all of his electronics in wooden crates and would only ship by FedEx air.