Pickfords quote, any comments?
 

Hi,

Just had a man from Pickford's in today to get a quote for shipping East Coast Scotland to Brisbane. He quoted just under £2500 for 500Cu (about half a container. That was door to door with 2 weeks each side free storage, packed and unpacked. Marine insurance was 3% of valuation of goods. If we need our bikes fumigated in Oz (better not after I scrub them!) then it'll be around $500.

Anybody shipping roughly the same size had any other prices?

Cheers

Ginny

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:) hi i was going to fill in form over net for the same size of container as yourself i am going to perth oin march the quote you got thats pretty good ,see when you say half of a container is that a 20 or 40 footer as i talked to someone before they done half 20.

regards
john..

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Half of a 20ft (I think!) Mr Mover had posted a wee while back about sizes and if I remember correctly 20ft was roughly 1050Cu. I was quoted for 500Cu. Forgot to mention that there was no excess on th insurance...This was because apparently Pickford's are sooo good at their job. :D

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Ginny

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That sounds like a rate for a full container! Mates of ours shipped Glasgow-Hobart a half container for £1900 with Excess International. They said the service was A1 at both ends and were complimentary about the OZ agent Grace Removals too. We may use them when we go next year. Last time we used PSS but they weren't anything like what they're cracked up to be on here. Sent 15 teachests and a lot of broken stuff and missing items.

You have to be careful about the OZ agents because if they don't know what they're doing then you'll get a lot of damage during customs and quarnteen clearing.

Check they are a national co over there like Grace Removals or Kent or Annset - you see their containers everywhere on the roads.

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Cheers for the info. Apparently their Oz colleagues are Allied Pickfords. Do you know if Excess International has a website? Would be interested to get a quote.

Cheers

Ginny

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I had a quote from FOX of £3500 for a 20f :scared:
Now got just about all of them coming round to quote !

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Hi,

Who's all of them and what did the quote you? (if you don't mind me asking).

Cheers

Ginny

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do you have a web addy for FOX?

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They are still to come round but over the next 2 weeks got , Britannia , Bishops move , PSS , excess international, Robinson's and may ring some more.

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www.fox-moving.com
ok :p

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TA:rolleyes:

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sorry try this one then ? http://www.foxtel.com.au/ :rolleyes:

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funny:p

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Hows the wee one ?

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she is great thanx.....Jonah agrees whole heartedly too!