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Can any fastlaners please give me advice about how to ship large items advertised on Ebay within Australia. I am interested in some wheels and tyres located in a remote small country town interstate and way too big for Australia Post to handle. The seller requires all arrangements for pickup and shipping to be made from my end.
What should I do now?
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
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Ask the seller if they have a local carrier they could recommend? Then get them to weigh the items also. Depending on the company they may need them to be strapped to a pallet for ease of handling (forklift) and any weight figure would need to incorpora |
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Then make sure you get a few quotes from the big freight companies, like; STAR TRACK EXPRESS, TNT, TOLL IPEC. Depending on where it's situated, it probably will not be cheap.
Good Luck!
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Just a thought came to me, give greyhound bus freight a go. Depending on where the wheels are their might be a service thats covers that area, and the prices are reasonable. Definatly get other prices from freight companies as leith said and co |
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Bus freight the go. I've shipped many wheels this way and usually around 60-80 bucks .
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Gday all. On the same topic of freight,ive been quoted $1174 to send a car from my home town{100 km south of cairns} to mildura.Sounds a tad expensive to me.this is naturally by car carrier{TOLL}.was wandering if anyone has any other suggestions.rail is o |
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Do you have a truck stop near by, try talking to some truckies as they are always looking for goods to backload on a return trip. I deal with interstaters at my work and its quite common, Ask around?
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Darren
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Yeah, thats not a bad idea at all!. there is a stop up the road.good on ya Darren.
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Bus freight used to be cheap but I enquired about moving a Corolla dash pad from Liverpool to Canberra & they wanted $70 depot to depot +$16 picckup to depot +$16 depot to home. I could drive to Liverpool for a lot less than that. I reckon I could catch |
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