When I moved home from the States in 2009 we brought all our stuff over from the US in a 40ft container fro $3500. Two lounge suites, California king, motorbike, side tables, everything. But for me to get some books from Amazon cost me $75…
Whaaaa?
At the same rate as I paid it should have cost me $0.06 cents!
Are my facts wrong? Don’t think so. So what do we do about it… this is my idea:
Whaaaa?
At the same rate as I paid it should have cost me $0.06 cents!
Are my facts wrong? Don’t think so. So what do we do about it… this is my idea:
- Get a consignment quote for one container to be shipped to your neighbourhood.
- In my case it would be consignment at an address in LA (where we have our stuff sent to).
- Then get a quote for customs handling (every package must be under $1,000 AUD in value.
- And a shipping truck rate from the port to your location ($300 from Brisbane to Byron Bay)
- Then get your neighbours to put the dimensions of the products they want onto a website that calculates the total volume and as soon as it makes sense everyone puts in their orders and waits for the shipment to arrive…
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