Container Arived!!! Quarantine help???
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Container Arived!!! Quarantine help???
Hi, Our container has arrived 10 days ago and is now in the delivery warehouse. All customs have cleared and have been told that we have to wait for quarantine clearance which will incurr a cost of $333 Is this fee for inspection and do all containers get inspected? Just desperate to have it delivered now as the original timescale when payment was made in the UK was 6-8 weeks only to find out when i was here i was told it will still be delivered within the original timescale of 10-12 weeks that one has already P****d me off!!!!
Anyone any info on this
cheers
Anyone any info on this
cheers
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Re: Container Arived!!! Quarantine help???
Gina
#3
Re: Container Arived!!! Quarantine help???
All our costs were handled at the UK end, no extra costs at this end (our container didnt need cleaning though)
#5
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Re: Container Arived!!! Quarantine help???
But beware because even if the inspection fee is included, if AQIS decide to destroy or treat anything you will have to pay extra for that.
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Re: Container Arived!!! Quarantine help???
Gina
#7
Re: Container Arived!!! Quarantine help???
Hi, Our container has arrived 10 days ago and is now in the delivery warehouse. All customs have cleared and have been told that we have to wait for quarantine clearance which will incurr a cost of $333 Is this fee for inspection and do all containers get inspected? Just desperate to have it delivered now as the original timescale when payment was made in the UK was 6-8 weeks only to find out when i was here i was told it will still be delivered within the original timescale of 10-12 weeks that one has already P****d me off!!!!
Anyone any info on this
cheers
Anyone any info on this
cheers
we were just glad to see our stuff. You are nearly there and it will all be yours again very very soon. x
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Re: Container Arived!!! Quarantine help???
When our stuff was delivered a few weeks back Quarantine had opened/gone through three boxes and then obviously just chucked the stuff back in. They were the only boxes where things had been damaged including a bowl that was smashed in pieces where it had been put back in without anything to protect it. Sods law it was a wedding present so of huge sentimental value, but not really worth enough to bother claiming on insurance. Some personal items were also missing. When I spoke to our (lovely, helpful) removal guys they said unfortunately that was common. Quarantine are a law unto themselves and basically don't give a sh*t. When you get the inventory you can see which boxes quarantine have opened so my advice would be to open those first and go through them with a fine tooth comb.
Martha
Martha
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Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 8,067
Re: Container Arived!!! Quarantine help???
When our stuff was delivered a few weeks back Quarantine had opened/gone through three boxes and then obviously just chucked the stuff back in. They were the only boxes where things had been damaged including a bowl that was smashed in pieces where it had been put back in without anything to protect it. Sods law it was a wedding present so of huge sentimental value, but not really worth enough to bother claiming on insurance. Some personal items were also missing. When I spoke to our (lovely, helpful) removal guys they said unfortunately that was common. Quarantine are a law unto themselves and basically don't give a sh*t. When you get the inventory you can see which boxes quarantine have opened so my advice would be to open those first and go through them with a fine tooth comb.
Martha
Martha
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Re: Container Arived!!! Quarantine help???
No one should be give a 6 - 8 week timescale unless they just mean the actual travelling time. There's no way you could get it out in that time.
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Re: Container Arived!!! Quarantine help???
I was told by all of the companies I had out to give me quotes that the actual sailing time is only 3 and a half weeks, that is how they can give a timescale of 6-8 weeks. Obviously you don't know when the ship actually sails, it might not be straight after they leave your house.
Sarah
Sarah
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For example, before our house sale fell through, we had Crown booked in June to pack our stuff 25/26/27 July. We were told the ship would leave 3 August and was due to dock in Fremantle 6 September. We were told to then allow a minimum of two weeks for it to clear customs/quarantine inspection.
Gina
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Re: Container Arived!!! Quarantine help???
I was told by all of the companies I had out to give me quotes that the actual sailing time is only 3 and a half weeks, that is how they can give a timescale of 6-8 weeks. Obviously you don't know when the ship actually sails, it might not be straight after they leave your house.
Sarah
Sarah
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Re: Container Arived!!! Quarantine help???
Well they must have been using bloody fast boats then Unless you had a personal door to door boat with no stops anywhere else on the way. We tracked our container, It left Tilsbury on the 21st October, went to a few ports on route to either pick up or drop off other containers and arrived at Brissie on the 26th November. They tell you what boat it's going on, in fact if memory serves, they gave us the choice of two sailings. The other one would have taken longer because it was doing a different route.