J Graul Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Looking for some tips on shipping keyboards internationally. I've been trying to sell my Korg Trinity and recently sold it on eBay. The buyer lives in Israel and the shipping cost seems to be as much as the item itself (~$800 for the item and same for shipping). Is that what I should just expect? He says he bought a keyboard from California and the shipping cost was less than $100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEB Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Thomann charges $40 to have a Virus TI2 shipped from Germany to here. "It doesn't have to be difficult to be cool" - Mitch Towne "A great musician can bring tears to your eyes!!! So can a auto Mechanic." - Stokes Hunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markay Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Difficult to get realistic shipping costs when you are a one off retail customer. There is a site called MYUS which offers a US address and low cost UPS or Fedex shipping rates from their warehouse to the International customers address. It may be cheaper for the buyer to get a MYUS address and a quote for the shipping cost from them to Jordan. You would then ship to his MYUS address, IIRC it is in Florida. I have have a premium account with MYUS which was free for life at the time for Amex cardholders. Shipping costs to Australia were similar to those charged by MF and Amazon. For the information of other forum members outside the US MYUS also have a concierge service where they charge the purchase to their US credit card which gets around the issue where US retailers are not allowed by a manufacturer to sell a product to customers outside the US. This is generally done to protect local distributors who may add between 100% and 200% to the US retail price. On one recent order after the MYUS concierge and shipping charge the all up cost was still 50% of the local cost. MainStage 3 | Axiom 61 2nd Gen | Pianoteq | B5 | XK3c | EV ZLX 12P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mate stubb Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Well, I think we recently proved that you don't take it to the UPS store for any reason. Moe --- "I keep wanting to like it's sound, but every demo seems to demonstrate that it has the earth-shaking punch and peerless sonics of the Roland Gaia. " - Tusker http://www.hotrodmotm.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesG Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Once you start to get into weird dimensions, the shipping cost can go through the roof with some shippers. Who did you try? Re than $100 package, I'm guessing it probably came from a place that does $10,000 or better in shipping per month...that can substantially lower your cost. FWIW I just guestimated a 61-key controller from 90120 to Telaviv with FedEx ground...came to $620. Ay aie aie. Intercargo.com (never used them) came to half that. Years ago I used to ship stuff Air Cargo and saved a lot of money. But I had to get it to the airport myself, and the buyer had to pick it up at the airport. Wes Hammond: L111, M100, M3, BC, CV, Franken CV, A100, D152, C3, B3 Leslie: 710, 760, 51C, 147, 145, 122, 22H, 31H Yamaha: CP4, DGX-620, DX7II-FD-E!, PF85, DX9 Roland: VR-09, RD-800 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxcvbnm098 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Wow, I wonder if there is a similar version in Japan for US customers? I double on guitar, but I'm a lefty. Fender Japan makes a ton of Japan-only lefty models that they don't allow to be sold into the US. What a great idea..gotta check into that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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