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Forum: Canada
Aug 1st 2011, 4:13 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

OK, update here (wife reporting this time, since I am the one who packed it all and now also have unpacked quite a lot of it as well:p!!)
Anyway, I couldn't see anything missing (although there were...
Forum: Canada
Jul 13th 2011, 7:59 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

If you don't know where "there" is I doubt anybody will be able to give you a quote to ship your stuff to somewhere else:rofl:
Forum: Canada
Jul 13th 2011, 6:35 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

White and Co have been good so far. They didn't give me any of the customs opening the boxes if they were owner packed thing, although funnily enough GB Liners did!
The container reaches Montreal...
Forum: Canada
Jun 7th 2011, 2:16 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

Decision made - White & Co.
Collecting in a couple of weeks.:)
Forum: Canada
Jun 3rd 2011, 4:57 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

Way-hey!!!
Good job well done!:thumbsup:
Forum: Canada
May 30th 2011, 6:56 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

Maybe it was just this consultant, but I just had Fox tell me that I couldn't ship our household contents because my husband is only on a TWP.
They later retracted that in two stages; first, saying...
Forum: Canada
May 30th 2011, 2:43 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

I started packing early with the non-regular use things like CDs and books and clothes that belong to my husband (who is already in Canada), spare bedding etc because I knew by myself it would be a...
Forum: Canada
May 30th 2011, 1:53 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: GB Liners quote

I didn't think it, I was told it by the rep from GB Liners last week.
He basically said it was because the C&E folks didn't trust individuals to be honest about what was in the boxes/container and...
Forum: Canada
May 29th 2011, 10:21 am
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

Yeah, I liked the look of that and if I was taking less stuff I think it looks like a very safe way to go.
Forum: Canada
May 29th 2011, 10:20 am
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: GB Liners quote

Do you mean that you are packing the whole container yourself?
If so, I have had a similar quote from a company First Move International, but what put me off that was not the difficulty of packing...
Forum: Canada
May 16th 2011, 8:07 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

Now you can see whay other people buy off E-bay - they let other people buy new things, take them out of the boxes, build them, scratch them, disassemble and then re-package them
And then they buy...
Forum: Canada
May 16th 2011, 5:53 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

This is not allowed and if they find new things in your consignment they will not be happy and you will have to pay import duty on them. The rules say the items must be yours and must have been in...
Forum: Canada
May 13th 2011, 5:54 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

Then I am glad we ditched the thousands of books my husband and me had collected (bar a few we really want to take with us.)
They weighed a tonne when I took them to the charity shop!:eek:
Forum: Canada
May 12th 2011, 10:28 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

Neither are we!
Does anybody get those expenses paid, except inter-company transfers?
But is that so bad a quote? A 20ft container is about 1170 cubic feet. A 40 ft is bout 2390 cubic feet and...
Forum: Canada
May 12th 2011, 8:53 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

Well, I live in the countryside somewhere in the "Derbyshire Triangle" between Sheffield, Derby and Nottingham. I was working in Derby until recently and our furniture is in storage there at the...
Forum: Canada
May 12th 2011, 8:17 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

Well, we are sitting ducks.
Or perhaps moving ducks....:lol:
Some I have had have reduced the price but not by anything much, so I will find out tomorrow if I get the same "price it high and then...
Forum: Canada
May 12th 2011, 5:42 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

What are they like to deal with? What is their reputation?
I really liked the guy at GB Liners - he was helpful and understood my circumstances and returned my call, unlike Crown, who didn't and...
Forum: Canada
May 12th 2011, 4:02 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: GB Liners quote

Where are you going to?
I just got a quote from Fox for sole use 20ft container to Vancouver area (Abbotsford) which came in at just over £4600, with me packing all the small items and personal...
Forum: Canada
May 10th 2011, 1:05 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

I have just had a quote from a company called 1st Move International who do what I suppose is "no frills" service to get a container or smaller quantity of goods to Canada and the price is...
Forum: Canada
May 9th 2011, 7:34 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: GB Liners quote

I would certainly have thought so, as it is way across the whole of Canada to the Pacific coast to Vancouver, whereas it is just a hop across the pond to the East coast and Halifax:). I am not...
Forum: Canada
May 9th 2011, 1:48 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

With so little the airfreight option might be best. Also, it will take a lot less time to get there. Sea freight via sole container takes 6 to 10 weeks or thereabouts and it is usually longer if you...
Forum: Canada
May 9th 2011, 12:08 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: GB Liners quote

I'm getting Fox to quote for a 20ft container today and also 1st Move and GB Liners. This is all to Abbotsford, Vancouver B.C. I'll also post the responses.
Movecorp quoted £4700 and when I said it...
Forum: Canada
May 6th 2011, 1:45 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

yes, they have.
Forum: Canada
May 5th 2011, 10:13 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

Oh, that explains that then - we live in the sticks!
I actually live down a very narrow drive past another house and there is no room for a container lorry either to come down the drive or to park...
Forum: Canada
May 5th 2011, 7:19 pm
Replies: 360
Views: 80,822
Posted By helcat12

Re: Best Shipping company?

Well, I just came across that info by accident, searching for the EVL website that I managed to fail to save to my favourites:o. Googling EVL returned a link to the Middle East section of BE and...
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