Need some help shipping speakers

where is it? I would be happy to pack and ship it for you if it's within a 100 miles

Shiply or Uship

@bcg 

You’ve gotten some great advice here. I think your decision is more how much of a discount you’re getting on the speakers with add on costs of getting them to you. The road trip may be your cheapest and safest route.

I just had three different experiences with the deliveries of audio equipment, two of them with speakers.

1.) I ordered 2 REL S/812 subwoofers from The Music Room (TMR) website. They sent the subwoofers (which weighs 75 lbs. each). They came in their original packaging boxes, put side by side on a plastic pallet, strapped to the pallet and sent to me for the cross country trip and was delivered from a huge FedEx truck, not the regular delivery service truck and delivered them using a pallet jack to my front door. A flawless transaction!! The subs look and sound great. I couldn’t be happier!!

2.) As I am building a REL 6-Pack Subwoofer Array I ordered 2 more REL S/812’s from Magnolia Audio/Best Buy in Southern California (Pasadena ) (I live in Northern California/San Francisco area) These were close-out purchases, so no shipping options through them. As I write this I’m preparing for the drive home. The purchase was flawless, the drive down went well (approx. 400 miles one way)

3.) Just before leaving for SoCal I took delivery on a vintage 1970’s TEAC 3340S Reel to Reel Tape Recorder which I bought through the Reverb website. The RTR came from a seller in Austria. To make a long story short. The seller didn’t package it well and FedEx didn’t handle the package well either and the unit arrived damaged, broken reel spindle, broken empty reel. I stopped looking after that and contacted the seller, who thinks he has no culpability in the occurrence of the damage of the unit. He literally used two layers of standard small bubble-wrap put it in a thin makeshift cardboard box with no additional padding and ship it through FedEx (the RTR weighs 44 pounds)…So be aware when asking someone who is not a professional to package your precious gear.,,

Have a happy roadtrip!! 

Thanks guys for all the great information. I checked with Uship and Shipley, and as noted their prices for door-to-door shipping and creating are not cheap, And push the overall cost of the speakers out of the reasonable range.

While a road trip certainly sounds fun it would be to a part of the country. that is a little bit down on the desirable list, at least for me (I’m not going to name any names!). It’s not the cost that makes this prohibited but the time. Just can’t afford to shake away from work for a pair of speakers. Would rather spend that valuable time in Hawaii scuba diving.
 

I think I’m going to chalk this up to a nice opportunity, but I’m gonna have to let pass. As we tell ourselves many times in life. - It just wasn’t meant to be…

Thank you again for all the great information! The forum is such a great place to seek advice and information 👏👏👏

LOVE IT!

Would rather spend that valuable time in Hawaii scuba diving.