| What is more likely to be damaged in shipping? |
| Your beloved steel? |
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47% |
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| Your beloved Amp? |
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52% |
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Topic: What is more likely to be damaged in shipping? |
A. J. Schobert
From:
Cincinnati, Ohio,
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Posted 20 Apr 2007 6:58 pm |
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| Your steel or an Amp? I would think the Amp is far more suseptible to freight damage, Those glass tubes can't take much abuse! The steel is already snug in it's case. I know some guys had bad luck with shipping, so here we go! |
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Jimmie Martin
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 21 Apr 2007 12:12 am damaged
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that depends on your shipping company.  |
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 21 Apr 2007 12:42 am
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| I never ship the amp, I can play through any amp, but can't play any other steel because of my copedent. |
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Mike Christensen
From:
Cook Minnesota
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Posted 21 Apr 2007 2:24 am poll
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| I had a case severely damaged by UPS.The LDG came through it fine somehow. Case got hit on one corner so hard the guitar broke the divider off at one end. They gave me $290.00 for it and I went to Texas Case for a replacement. I had an amp shipped and the box looked like a bear clawed it but the amp was ok. That wa FedEx. |
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Ken Metcalf
From:
San Antonio Texas USA
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Posted 21 Apr 2007 2:30 am
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Me No Likey..!! UPS !!! 
Smashed a twin with no payment on ins.
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 21 Apr 2007 4:58 pm
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Anything that has plastic or bakelite parts that were built fifty years ago or more. Those old mechanism covers are real mailhandlers' bait  |
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Jeremy Threlfall
From:
now in Western Australia
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Posted 23 Apr 2007 2:43 pm
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Valves are tough - thats why they used to use them in aeroplane control systems (I think the North Koreans still do??!)
I've never understood why people take valves out of amps before they ship them.
They are not like car headlight globes - can't touch them with your hands etc - I've not ever had anything but cosmetic damage to amps in transit. |
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Jerry Malvern
From:
Menifee, California, USA
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Posted 23 Apr 2007 5:42 pm
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| Both......if you dont pack them properly. |
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A. J. Schobert
From:
Cincinnati, Ohio,
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Posted 23 Apr 2007 5:53 pm
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| Point taken jerry! |
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Jim Eaton
From:
Santa Susana, Ca
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Posted 23 Apr 2007 8:50 pm
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UPS dropped the box my Legend was packed in and broke both wheel units in half right across the axle on my Texas case. Must have taken all the shock on the wheels,the rest of the case and the guitar were fine and Kyle at MSA quickly got me replacements.
JE:-)> |
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John Roche
From:
England
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Posted 24 Apr 2007 12:58 am
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| Maybe your wallet |
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Ernie Pollock
From:
Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 24 Apr 2007 4:26 am Poor Packing is the Problem
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I have shipped steel guitars & amps all over the place, I think from the ones that have been shipped to me [ by individuals, not companys] have be for the most part very poorly packaged for the trip. You cannot put the steel in a big box full of 'peanuts' & expect no damage. The peanuts move & and the instrument is all over the place. You know, UPS workers in general, only see a great big heavy box which makes em mad!! Pack em right. Leave the case handle open for the UPS driver to pick it up, that usually works good for me. I think it may be hard to talk those so called 'professional packing places' into doing that, they are very 'hard headed'.
Ernie |
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James Morehead
From:
Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 24 Apr 2007 4:36 am
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| I pay the extra packing fee--about $20, and let the shipper pack it. How can they deny a claim when THEY pack it and THEY handle it?? I never have had a hard time getting them to bubble wrap instead of peanuts. |
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Chris LeDrew
From:
Canada
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Posted 24 Apr 2007 5:07 am
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Right on, James......when I sent my Baldwin D-10 to the US, I brought it to UPS and they packed it impecccably. I would never have taken a chance sending that 80-pound guitar any other way. It cost me about 50 bucks extra, but it was worth it. I have not had the same good experience with my own packing....two Carters sent to California that got shaken up pretty bad with a lot of red tape attached to the claims. You are right.....what can they say when they've packed it themselves?
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