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I remember something similar - I moved from Scotland to Finland and we used a shipping container to move some of our stuff. Of course we sold/donated most thin
by stevekemp 6y ago
I remember something similar - I moved from Scotland to Finland and we used a shipping container to move some of our stuff.
Of course we sold/donated most things, and didn't try to transport furniture. We shipped 80cbft / 2.26 cubic meters of stuff. The price for removal was £570.00, and the price of insurance was £307.40.
So in our case insurance was damn near 50% of the shipping price.
(Quick edit: Found the actual emails so those numbers are correct.)
- lostlogin 6y agoWhat would you estimate the value of the contents to be?
- stevekemp 6y agoMy memory would be £10,000-£15,000. Mostly it was sentimental stuff, I know we shipped cutlery, paintings, a very small number of books, clothing etc. But roughly speaking we'd got rid of anything and everything we could easily replace. (And it has to be said that the pair of us carried a few suitcases for our flights, we'd filled those with plants and other fragile items.)
- Sunspark 6y agoPlants? Over an international border? :)
- tnli 6y agoEU, so it's easier.
- stevekemp 6y agoI was in a long-distance relationship with a Finnish woman for a few years. After a while she'd start packing/bringing a couple of small plants with her each time she visited. Nothing too exotic, just things like spider-plants and some indoor vines. She'd lightly-wrap them with newspaper and then stick them in the middle of her suitcase surrounded by clothes. So pretty much all the plants we took from Scotland to Finland were ones she'd already moved in the opposite direction a year or two earlier! I know some countries have restrictions on plants/animals and similar things, but it never seemed to be a concern for her travels.
- hvidgaard 6y agoThis is heavily restricted to avoid importing invasive plants. It's often some innocent behaving plants that end up completely taking over in the wild.
- justinclift 6y agoHeh Heh Heh Don't do that if you visit Australia. They'll (for real) throw you in jail if you bring in plants or animals without a permit. ;) https://www.agriculture.gov.au/import/goods/plant-products/how-to-import-plants https://www.agriculture.gov.au/import/goods/plant-products/h...
- tpm 6y agoInternal EU border probably at the time, so it should be fine.
- csomar 6y agoSo the insurance is more like 2-3%...
- octoberfranklin 6y ago> So in our case insurance was damn near 50% of the shipping price. How does that make any sense? The probability of loss is nowhere near 50%.
- ornornor 6y ago50% of shipping fees isn’t 50% of insured value.
- octoberfranklin 6y agod'oh. I only pretend to know how to read.
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- celticninja 6y agoShipping price is not the price of the goods needing to be replaced. So if the goods were worth £25k then £300 is just over 1% which would seem more reasonable.