Amp Shipping: Who are the best?

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Amp Shipping: Who are the best?

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Right, we've all shipped crap around the countryside.
Who had the best prices and care?

I used mainfreight to ship a bass amp down to Dunedin...they charged me $130 and didn't pick it up for two days until I'd bugged them a couple of times.

I shipped a big bass cab to a guy who used his work to ship it up to auckland and that was painless.

What's the best? If I had to ship an amp that weighs around 40kg and is about the size of an ac30 or mesa 2x12 combo, who would be the best?

I tried to search on this but it seems a bit silent
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Mainfreight's always been good to me, whether it's depot-to-depot or door-to-door.

McDowalls is another option, if you can take it to their depot I'd bet it'll be cheaper than Mainfreight.

I've also used Castle Parcels once, with no issues.
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Ive also used mainfreight to move a 115 bass cab from the south island to welly. About a hundred dollars, and about 4-5 working days door to door. No issues, they gave me a call to make sure it was alright to drop off. Would use them again. Im sure theres a quicker/cheaper/better courier though.

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Yeah, I feel there should be better/cheaper options out there than them, but I'd still be happy to use them again.
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various artists wrote:Mainfreight
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tonymcbony wrote:Yeah, I feel there should be better/cheaper options out there than them, but I'd still be happy to use them again.
Christchurch specific - Post Haste, out in Sockburn from memory. Or somewhere near that landfill/dump area. They have the best prices for 2-day courier service. Shipping a guitar of average size used to cost about $24 bucks. I've shipped amps with them before as well. Never had a single complaint. Sent dozens of things.
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I had my AC30 shipped from auckland to ashburton via nz couriers bascily overnight, was pretty good no damage just complaints from the driver about F*&@en heavy it was haha not sure how much it cost though

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Mainfreight's been great for me 5 times

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slash-ed wrote:Post Haste
I've used them a couple of times for guitars and been impressed. Relatively good price and both times the items have turned up at their destination the next day (pretty long distances too).

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Shipped my Boogie cab (from Dayl, now Slash-Ed's) from Auckland to the Wellington depot (Mainfreight) didn't have an account so I had to go and pick it up in Seaview but it only cost $54 bucks which was a killer deal I thought.
slash-ed wrote:Shipping a guitar of average size used to cost about $24 bucks.
:shock:

This hurts, especially after my $124 courier bill 2 weeks ago to courier a guitar from my place to Dunedin. Courierpost = Fail.

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robnobcorncob wrote:Shipped my Boogie cab (from Dayl, now Slash-Ed's) from Auckland to the Wellington depot (Mainfreight) didn't have an account so I had to go and pick it up in Seaview but it only cost $54 bucks which was a killer deal I thought.
slash-ed wrote:Shipping a guitar of average size used to cost about $24 bucks.
:shock:

This hurts, especially after my $124 courier bill 2 weeks ago to courier a guitar from my place to Dunedin. Courierpost = Fail.
Christ, how much profit did the guy take on shipping? The last time I used courier post it was $52 to send a guitar across NZ

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Well it normally costs about 60 bucks to Auckland if it's a gig bag in a cardboard box. This was my Ibanez semi-hollow in a molded hardshell case wrapped in cardboard, so about as heavy as your average hardshell case with a solidbody inside. It was too big for parcel post I said 'I know I want to courier it' Teller says 'Ok that'll be $124 dollars thankyou, EFTPOS?.... ' I kinda stood there stunned. Thinking I better just bit the bullet and send i'd been slack getting it sent out to the buyer and I didn't have any other postage options at my immediate disposal.

I'll shop elsewhere next time.

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Errgh.

Estimate (w/insurance) = 167.91 for mainfreight precision, 113.91 w/out insurance

That's going from central aucks to chch and something that's 35kg

Would I be a sucker for taking that? I just want to be safe
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Hang on, just have to set my watch...

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