Shipping advice
 

Sold all my fairings and shit... cannot find a damn box big enough... any advice on shipping? Box sources, packaging, freight carriers...

take multiple boxes and tape them together? Get some cheap 1x2 wood and make a frame and cover in cardboard?
Go buy a new fridge and use the box to ship the fairings.
Couple options.

1) Assume they will destroy it
2) Pack accordingly
3) Insurance!!! ...if possible, with a private shipping insurance firm, as UPS and FEDEX will destroy your shit, and then blame your fucking packaging, regardless of how well packed it is.
4) Pray

Hope you got enough money for shipping from whoever you sold it to.

I recently bought new side fairings for my BMW. The box was 39"x39"x16", and to ship UPS was $140.

I'm with Cutty, tape boxes together to *make* a big box.

I shipped all my street fairings off my R6 for $73 using USPS. Luckily I had my big track bodywork box to use...

Make sure the boxes used are what is known as "double corrugated", or else they will blame the packing FOR SURE if anything goes bad.

Put "Do not stack" on it. Im sure they will but maybe those wont throw shit on it.

Yeah, put DO NOT STACK, and FRAGILE on it, so they know what to break...

I think this is the route I'm going to have to go... Boxes that big are way harder to come by than you might expect...

FedEx goes by weight and dimensions... not sure about UPS... and USPS is weight only... gonna have to figure out what's cheapest, most likely USPS - however with them I have to keep the dimensions 34"x24"x24" or smaller... which should be doable...

I'll just rip down some OSB into strips and reinforce the box that way...

I padded the selling price so shipping was factored... I'm ending up within $10-$15 of what I wanted... good deal for everyone...

FedEx will be the cheapest. I have shipped tons of fairings, car bumpers, and even motors. Fedex.

Hit up the local walmart even and get some boxes.

We did a run by WalMart and about 10 other places last night after work... everything was crushed and bundled already... We got some pretty big boxes here at work for HVAC filters... gonna bastardize two of those into one big box.

According to USPS' website, $107 in one box. FedEx is $108... That's if I can fit those dimensions/weight... if I go bigger or have to use more than one box, it's a toss up...

With packaging and everything I figure 50lbs.

I thought you already tried to make one big box outta those and it didnt work?

The two boxes were different sizes... gonna get another box today that's the same size as one of them...

Everytime I've been shipped bodywork - it's been in a big ass box with either wood or foam to keep the corners square. You can get foam pretty cheaply at a craft store - think the stuff they make flower arrangements with. Put that on the corners of the bodywork so it doesn't have a chance of going through the box.

These two.

I have sold lots of stuff over the last few years, including multiple sets of body work.

USPS will be the cheapest unless you have a negotiated rate with another carrier.

Race body work boxes work great for shipping a whole set.

UPS stores will sell "artwork" boxes which work well for side/lower fairings as long as they don't have too much of a curve to them.

Get creative. Placing a large panel diagonally can help you squeeze something big into a small(er) box.

Pack it well and reinforce the corners and middle.

So.... a guy at work mentioned Greyhound... I'm like, 'the bus people?'

Apparently the bottoms of their buses are NEVER full because people traveling by bus usually don't have a lot of shit, I guess... They fill the bottoms and charge ridiculously low rates... and have ridiculous maximum dimensions (82"x47"x30"!)... I'm going to grab a couple of gaylords (the boxes) from our warehouse and build a fucking monster box to put this shit in... and save about $50 or so in shipping. BOO YA!

Yeah, I said 'boo ya'...

Most large replacement body panels sold on eBay for cars (like bumper covers, and such) are shipped by dirty dog. I should have remember to tell ya. I just hate having to drive to the bus station to get my shit, so it's not my personal fav.

And gaylord.
The Greyhound thing is pretty damn genius, though.

:lol: ...Gaylord...hahahahahaha!!!:lol:

gaylord
http://www.empirecontainercorp.com/bulkbox.jpg

asahi thermofoil with a picture of a ..............bong?

what exactly are you shipping? :lol

Drewpy.