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Shipping fatigue and your audio habits

Hello my audio brethren. Recently wrapped up some sales and purchases and the reality of shipping is hitting me hard. It’s rough! The insurance, packaging protection, and the very high cost these days to move packages over 50 pounds, and for gear over 100 pounds… yikes. 😬 It has put a serious damper on the buy/try/sell habit I have been operating in for years. It’s good in a way as it helps me squash the audio nervosa 🐛 , but man does it sting to really think about the extreme high cost to do business anymore. Curious how this has affected y’all. For us non-dealer audio nuts:are you finding dealers out there that used to offer really great deals offering less of a discount ? For dealers: when buying large orders from your suppliers, if you can share, what strategies have you had to adapt to to keep your operating margins? For us used audio sellers on a’gon and USAM have you adjusted your sales to NOT include free shipping? Local sales only?

The Amazon effect “I want my crap  and I want it tomorrow and I don’t want to pay for shipping” seems to be running out of steam. Somebody has to pay the bill. For me I have been much more strict on my sales on USAM. I’m not going to eat the cost of shipping all myself anymore, and more generally I’m pausing big ticket purchases. 

Good luck out there and enjoy the music!

 

audiopacer
swaudiofan
48 posts
 

I have had some success with reduced shipping at a Parcel Monkey.  Have used them a number of times over the years with selling used hifi equipment and it has gone quite smooth.

zlone
1,340 posts
 

I had to ship a large set of crated and palletted speakers this year and freight costs were pretty extreme. I found freightquote.com which saved the buyer and me a lot of money and works like a charm. 

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audiodwebe
275 posts
 

I have a lot of gear I’d like to sell, but haven’t for a variety of reasons. Mainly, it’s the PITA aspect of having to box, pack, ship (yep, shipping and insurance is absolutely nuts!), but also having to wait and wonder if the equipment made it out safely. I’ve been on both the receiving and sending end of equipment damaged in transit and dealing with the shipping company is never a good thing.

 

mark200mph
842 posts
 

Shipping is out of control price wise as is everything else.i hope it all calms down over the next 12 months. No one has any more pride in thier work it rare these days. Until then enjoy the music

macg19
1,341 posts
 

I build it in to the decision.

I just paid $1,300 to get speakers palleted and shipped air-freight from NOLA to SoCal, but the piece of mind for both parties was worth it.

In this case the seller wanted local pick-up. I said I pay for custom freight, insured for full replacement, seller agreed and chipped in $500, and I got exactly what I wanted, delivered in perfect condition

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