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Location: Rego Park, NY, | What is the average shipping weight of a well packed guitar? I used the shipping calculator on an ebay item located on the east coast. The shipping amount was $108.04 UPS for a 40 pound box. I paid $35.00 for UPS shipping of my Adamas and OHSC from Virginia. I guess that's" What Brown can do TO you". |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Around 30 lbs. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Phil,
Solidbody in a case can be 25 lbs. and an Adamas 12 in case with mucho extra stuffing was 40 lbs.
The real killer is the size of the box or package! This allows UPS to "oversize" charge.
I prefer to use the KAMAN boxes from a local Guitar Center to keep it small. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Yes it is the odd shape of an elongated box. I charged $50. because brown said the weight of my Limited was going to be slightly over $40. I thought with the weight of the package, $50 would cover it. It was more like $60 because of the shape of the box. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | UPS has some limit of L+W+H if it's (I think) 80 inches or more it's consider oversized and that's where they really stick it to you. I have found that you can screw them a little and if your package is 50+20+10 (=80) you can fudge it a little and call it 49+19+10 (=78) and usually get away with it and save yourself about $15.
Here's a good one for you. I was at FedEx last week shipping Pokey her CL and was talking to a guy from America West airlines. AW employees get a 75% discount at FedEx. He shipped a freaking 10HP gas driven electric generator overnight for about $12.
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Location: NJ | generally a guitar is single oversize at 30 lbs
sometimes they try to get you for the double oversize 70 lbs rate. this usually applies to other company's boxes |
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Location: Upper Left USA | But your a suspected Terrist if you try to carry nail clippers!
It pay's to know the rules. |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | The UPS shipping weight for an O w/OHSC in a regular guitar-sized box is 30 lbs.
UPS charges vary by distance shipped. I recently shipped guitars to the factory in CT from the metro NYC area and the charge w/insurance was only $18. The guitars got to the factory the next day!
Some sellers on eBay purposely inflate the shipping charges to avoid paying eBay a higher final valuation fee because shipping charges are not included in the final valuation. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Some sellers on eBay purposely inflate the shipping charges to avoid paying eBay a higher final valuation fee because shipping charges are not included in the final valuation."
Yup! And it presses my buttons! I hate to reward those with a $.99 item and $24.95 shipping and handling fee. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | I was just charged $49 for shipping fees on a CV68 without a case. Aren't those things light? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | 90 Collectors with case and box was just under 20 pounds. Shipped Boise to Nebraska FedEx ground for a little under $20. |
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Shipping Weight of Guitar and OHSC ?