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Shipping a guitar X-country
Bobafett:
Just wanted some input. I want to get my Custom Strat sent out to me from MS to Idaho. I have looked at a few guitar forums, and most suggest Fed-Ex. The guitar is in a hard case with a lock on it. Most say it should cost about $50. Has anyone here ever done this? Also, how much insurance should i pay for. The guitar is in the $1200 range. Thanks for any reply.
Benji
khalpin:
--- Quote from: Bobafett on June 26, 2012, 11:55:19 AM ---Just wanted some input. I want to get my Custom Strat sent out to me from MS to Idaho. I have looked at a few guitar forums, and most suggest Fed-Ex. The guitar is in a hard case with a lock on it. Most say it should cost about $50. Has anyone here ever done this? Also, how much insurance should i pay for. The guitar is in the $1200 range. Thanks for any reply.
Benji
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It's not a bad idea to insure your guitar(s) as you would an engagement ring. Much cheaper, too. I have a Martin insured for $4,000 and it only costs $22/year. Looking at the contract, I don't see any exclusion for being lost in the mail, but I don't know if I'd mention that you're planning on mailing it if you go that route. The underwriter would probably deny the application.
[takes off insurance hat]
kellerb:
--- Quote from: Bobafett on June 26, 2012, 11:55:19 AM ---Just wanted some input. I want to get my Custom Strat sent out to me from MS to Idaho. I have looked at a few guitar forums, and most suggest Fed-Ex. The guitar is in a hard case with a lock on it. Most say it should cost about $50. Has anyone here ever done this? Also, how much insurance should i pay for. The guitar is in the $1200 range. Thanks for any reply.
Benji
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With UPS, everything is auto-insured to a value of $100. Anything worth more than $100, you have to pay for the extra insurance by whatever you declare the value of the contents is. I believe Fedex is similar. I'd recommend insuring for the full price, or at least whatever you think the cost of replacement would be. My assumption is that it's in a regular hardshell guitar case and not one of the SKB flight cases. I don't have any knowledge about long-term insurance, so I'll defer to Khalpin's thoughts on that.
I'd suspect that for a large object, weighing maybe 30 lbs?, with insurance, it might be closer to $100 for a MS->ID shipment, especially considering you're not in a large metropolis with a UPS/Fedex hub there.
EDIT: If you give me the approximate weight and the approximate addresses, I can get you a couple estimates at work tomorrow
mbw:
--- Quote from: kellerb on June 26, 2012, 09:25:19 PM ---
--- Quote from: Bobafett on June 26, 2012, 11:55:19 AM ---Just wanted some input. I want to get my Custom Strat sent out to me from MS to Idaho. I have looked at a few guitar forums, and most suggest Fed-Ex. The guitar is in a hard case with a lock on it. Most say it should cost about $50. Has anyone here ever done this? Also, how much insurance should i pay for. The guitar is in the $1200 range. Thanks for any reply.
Benji
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With UPS, everything is auto-insured to a value of $100. Anything worth more than $100, you have to pay for the extra insurance by whatever you declare the value of the contents is. I believe Fedex is similar. I'd recommend insuring for the full price, or at least whatever you think the cost of replacement would be. My assumption is that it's in a regular hardshell guitar case and not one of the SKB flight cases. I don't have any knowledge about long-term insurance, so I'll defer to Khalpin's thoughts on that.
I'd suspect that for a large object, weighing maybe 30 lbs?, with insurance, it might be closer to $100 for a MS->ID shipment, especially considering you're not in a large metropolis with a UPS/Fedex hub there.
EDIT: If you give me the approximate weight and the approximate addresses, I can get you a couple estimates at work tomorrow
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the dimensions will over rule the weight in this case. a standard guitar box is 20x8x50
i can tell you exactly tomorrow, but it will be somewhere in between those two numbers, 50-100
kellerb:
--- Quote from: mirthbeatenworker on June 26, 2012, 09:34:09 PM ---
--- Quote from: kellerb on June 26, 2012, 09:25:19 PM ---
--- Quote from: Bobafett on June 26, 2012, 11:55:19 AM ---Just wanted some input. I want to get my Custom Strat sent out to me from MS to Idaho. I have looked at a few guitar forums, and most suggest Fed-Ex. The guitar is in a hard case with a lock on it. Most say it should cost about $50. Has anyone here ever done this? Also, how much insurance should i pay for. The guitar is in the $1200 range. Thanks for any reply.
Benji
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With UPS, everything is auto-insured to a value of $100. Anything worth more than $100, you have to pay for the extra insurance by whatever you declare the value of the contents is. I believe Fedex is similar. I'd recommend insuring for the full price, or at least whatever you think the cost of replacement would be. My assumption is that it's in a regular hardshell guitar case and not one of the SKB flight cases. I don't have any knowledge about long-term insurance, so I'll defer to Khalpin's thoughts on that.
I'd suspect that for a large object, weighing maybe 30 lbs?, with insurance, it might be closer to $100 for a MS->ID shipment, especially considering you're not in a large metropolis with a UPS/Fedex hub there.
EDIT: If you give me the approximate weight and the approximate addresses, I can get you a couple estimates at work tomorrow
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the dimensions will over rule the weight in this case. a standard guitar box is 20x8x50
i can tell you exactly tomorrow, but it will be somewhere in between those two numbers, 50-100
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Yes. "Dimensional weight" is factored in on larger packages. Forgot to mention that.
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