Excess Baggage
 

Was wondering if anyone had used Excess Baggage to ship their stuff?
Had them round for a quote and they seem very professional,thorough and include a free air freight box and cleaning of the container in the price.
Can anyone recommend them?? :D
Thanks Sunbound

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My OH, Pollyana, used them and found them quite good and reliable. Would use them again.

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Just to let you know that Singapore Airlines will double your baggage allowance if you fly with them on your visa validation flight (you just have to call them beforehand)

Every little helps ;-)

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Hi Steve ,
Do you mean they will double it from 20 to 40Kg because you are migrating ? And do you do that once you've booked youre tickets?
Thanks thumbsup:

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I was trying to remember where someone had mentioned it and come to think of it i remember it was Pollyana now! :thumbup:
They seem very professional ...but then i'm sure they all do during their quote visit!!!!
Thanks

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we used them and it was excellent service both sides ;)

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Yes if you are on your 'migrant' flight - i.e. have a visa that you havent validated yet - then once you have booked your tickets, ring them and they double your allowance to 40KG each.

At the airport we had 86KG between two of us and there was no issues.:thumbup:

We also found them the cheapest to fly with when we came in April 08.

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we got then to confirm this via email and took the email with us

as we had read posts where they had sorted via the phone and on the day the wouldnt allow it

just a thought ;)

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Malaysian Airlines wanted £2,500 for our excess baggage!! Excess Baggage at Heathrow charged £310 - bit of a difference - everything arrived a week later spot on - highly recommended!!

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Thats crazy - esp if you had it in writing from them. When we got there they just rang their HQ who confirmed it on the spot, no issues whatsoever.

Did you take it further? I would have for sure.

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Hi Steve,
When did you use them? The only reservation i have is that they aren't Excess Baggage in Australia even though they say its a door to door service.Their insurance is standard liability only so i wont be using that.

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oct 06 left uk
dec 06 aus
they use grace at this end and they were really good ;)

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Yes, we used them to ship some stuff and everything arrived in good condition.

Gems

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Hey guys, also, if you fly via the U.S. ( air new zealand has one way via los angeles for £450) you get a 46kilo baggage allowance.

Like you said, every little helps!

I've got another baggage question - I've been looking at the baggage removalists in tnt magazine - and they are all pretty similar pricewise for my baggage (5 Tea Cartons, all around £320 for this)

One company in tnt magazine, Freedom, will do 5 tea cartons for £160 - bargain - but when I called Anglo Pacific, they said not to use Freedom.

I don't know whether to trust them or not!!! Has anyone used Freedom, and was it okay?

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We used excess baggage, and yes the goods arrived safely (they lost 1 item for a day-couldnt track it anywhere:blink:) but instead of it taking 7-10 days to get to us it took a month!:mad:

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if you do search for freedom on BE there's been other threads on this - most people who have used them seem happy with their service. I've been thinking about using them myself.
what reason did anglopacific give you re not using freedom? i suppose its not surprising they would advise you against using a competitor!!

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I have used Excess Baggage to ship purchases made whilst on holiday in Europe back to melbourne

Not too bad a service - leave plenty of time if you are dropping off at LHR, and also try to tie them down to a price.

The price on their website isn't the same as on their brochures and wasn't the same as i got charged at LHR.

They like to sneak in a few 'admin charges' and the like.

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I know they can ship or air freight goods but i was talking more about their door to door shipping ie in a container
Not many people seem to have used that option with them.

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Hi there ... thanks for the advice, i did a search and was reassured.

Anglo P said not to use them as they are not BAR bonded, which is like ATOL for holidays I guess. I asked Freedom, and they said they cannot get bar bonding as it only applied to baggage companies that ship household effects - Freedom do personal baggage (clothes etc) only.

I am going to go with them - they are bonded through RBS instead :-)