Shipping for PR620 or BMP8

Sew Sane · March 15th, 2010, 07:06 PM

For those of you who have sold and shipped this model machine, which shipping company did you use? Did you have original packing or pack yourself?

dsp · March 15th, 2010, 07:47 PM

Take it to the UPS store. Let them pack it.

pjs01 · March 18th, 2010, 09:22 PM

NO!! I would not trust teh UPS packing store. I bought a babylock emp6 and he seller brouht it to the UPS store and had them pack and ship... They cost me 5K!!!! They put it in a double wall card board box with packing peanuts... it spun around and probably dropped, now the head is out of alignment ( I have a post offering it back up for sale for anyone who wants to work on it and fix it), and don't get me started about trying to deal with UPS claims.
I would say have it bolted to a pallette and use a freight company... I wish I did.

Sew Sane · March 19th, 2010, 10:24 AM

Thanks for the FYI

Pheonix · March 26th, 2010, 09:13 AM

I shipped with UPS from the Western States to Alaska. Make sure you get insurance. I let them pack it. When the buyer received it she said there was a hole in the box, but it appeared that everything was still there. If I remember right the cost for shipping was just over $500.00. It has been almost a year. Before I took it to UPS I called different trucking companies. You have to crate it yourself and after all is said and done the cost for shipping was higher than UPS. I hope this helps.