Also true! I wonder if bikes get damaged as easily as instruments do?
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—>>I found a source to ship basses cheaply!<<—
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That’s fair! I rarely sell whole basses but this is good to know.
Guess I should not reply to posts super late night after drinking too much whiskey lol
What I'm talking about has nothing to do with FedEx. In fact with bike flights for example you won't file the insurance claim with fedex, you'll file it with bike flights. From what another TB'er was saying shipbikes is okay with bass guitars going through their service. I'd double check that personally. In fact right now I'm using another service that is the middleman between shipper and ups. Just yesterday while having a conversation with them about transit times internationally they mentioned to me that their insurance carrier is not the same as UPS's even though it ships through UPS. You learn something new everyday.
It's double and triple checked, ShipBikes will ship anything even though they use the word bikes.
My intuition is that shipbikes is only the middle man and is not getting involved with any claims or insurance. I would assume that any damaged or missing package would be between you and FedEx. Just my two cents and gut feeling since you are the one shipping it not shipbikes. They are only providing a discounted shipping label.
^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS, for goodness sake!^^^^^^^^^^^
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Your intuition is spot on! In fact, It’s a fact!
I stopped assuming when I was 19 yrs old. If that's the case then they would be the minority with these 3rd party servicers to UPS/FEDEX. The rest of them are contracting their own insurance(keyword:servicer). I'm going to look into what their discount is and of course quadruple check the insurance thing. Some wanker here on TB said something about it's been double and triple checked.. good for you. Knowing what I know after bikeflights told me insurance will cycling related only, I'm not shipping anyone's instrument until verifying for myself on whether their purchase is covered by ins.
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I've used bike boxes to ship my last 4 basses.They are usually too big so have to be adjusted down (which is an easy job), but they are strong and rigid. Around here most bike shops will give them away.
Hopefully this clears up the insurance claim issue.
...from ship bikes website.
Claims for damage with Fedex bike box shipments - Shipbikes.com
it says clearly to make a claim with Fedex directly
...from ship bikes website.
Claims for damage with Fedex bike box shipments - Shipbikes.com
it says clearly to make a claim with Fedex directly
Lesfunk...thanks for clearing that up. I was just looking out for fellow TB'ers. When I saw this post header I decided to jump in after having a conversation with the higher
I spoke with Chris at shipbikes. You all are very correct. Still, I'm glad I decided to speak up because DO NOT expect the same through bikeflights, they told me point blank about 1 1/2 yrs ago that they had a policy change and...no bueno. I'm happy to know I have another option now. Thanks guys!!
ShipBikes.com works for me; I just sent an SX short scale bass from NJ to NH for $25!!
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The company reached out to the site's Help Desk and asked that we announce that they do not, in fact ship bass guitars, and that the information that they did was a mistake. So closing this:
"We are in the business of shipping bicycles and bicycling equipment and not bass guitars. Our email to a customer was taken out of context and we are not in the business of shipping guitars. Please give me a call to discuss as we would like to stop any additional shipments of non cycling equipment via our service."
"We are in the business of shipping bicycles and bicycling equipment and not bass guitars. Our email to a customer was taken out of context and we are not in the business of shipping guitars. Please give me a call to discuss as we would like to stop any additional shipments of non cycling equipment via our service."
I have received several private messages about this matter. At no point did I intend to imply that anyone here had done anything wrong. Apparently someone lower down in the bikes organization made a decision that did not go well with someone higher up in that same organization. At this point I was informed only that the company question no longer wish to ship anything that was not bicycles.
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