in other words: How to move a Whirlpool BD for Euro power grids to Italy.
Some of you will remember an older thread here with Freddy having discovered a Whirlpool BD plus matching dryer on "Quoka.de" (the German craiglist if you will)
http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?44472
I contacted him and offered my help. Thought at first "let's do some translating on the phone and that's it". But when I saw "pick-up only" in the ad on one hand and Freddy so eager to get that thing on the other hand: The whole affair grew to be full-fledged logistics job. Fine, I thought, let's get it on.
Never have I wasted minute thinking what a jungle of transportation methods and companies there is. It took me hours and hours of phone calls, skyping Freddy all along. Hardly any firm agreed to "house moving single items abroad." Finally I found out there are basically just two: iloxx.de and cargointernational.de.
Both can handle heavy, bulky or unusually shaped objects, the former venturing in the "Waschmaschinentransport" market with their ads. But somehow they sounded a bit too sly to me, their soft-spoken callcenter ladies trying to lure me into making a contract (but they calculated on the machine only, not the pallet, the packaging and the extra weight.) So the initial 199,- soon rose up to some 249,- plus insurance plus this and that, The more often I called, the more precise the data was, the less attractive got their offers (the prices still going up each time). "Too sleek, too windy, to shaky with exact figures" I thought and found "cargointernational.de".
A different world! A simple 1-2-3 web surface, straight-away answers on the phone: That lady (and you get the same person each time you call, not some random and different one), she really took her time explaining all to me and warning me about things that I hadn't thought of first. Calculating the washer with a pallet, then calculating it with packaging and slightly higher weight, finally using their freight calculator online:
It was always 179,- each time plus 7,- insurance up to 500 value. Wham-bam, done. I knew how to pack it, how it would be shipped, I knew what to do. Relief!
But here is the full story:
Using some cheap drawings that I made I could get all the transport details together. 179,- for 1 machine or 299,- for both. Freddy said, he'd like the washer only.
Then I took to arranging convenient dates for seller, for Freddy, for myself and for my friend that would help me.
And last weekend we finally managed to get his beautiful Whirly ready for dispatch (see link)
As by today, all is paid for, the "cruise" travel for our Lady WP BD is booked.
Enjoy the show ;-)
Joe
Some of you will remember an older thread here with Freddy having discovered a Whirlpool BD plus matching dryer on "Quoka.de" (the German craiglist if you will)
http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?44472
I contacted him and offered my help. Thought at first "let's do some translating on the phone and that's it". But when I saw "pick-up only" in the ad on one hand and Freddy so eager to get that thing on the other hand: The whole affair grew to be full-fledged logistics job. Fine, I thought, let's get it on.
Never have I wasted minute thinking what a jungle of transportation methods and companies there is. It took me hours and hours of phone calls, skyping Freddy all along. Hardly any firm agreed to "house moving single items abroad." Finally I found out there are basically just two: iloxx.de and cargointernational.de.
Both can handle heavy, bulky or unusually shaped objects, the former venturing in the "Waschmaschinentransport" market with their ads. But somehow they sounded a bit too sly to me, their soft-spoken callcenter ladies trying to lure me into making a contract (but they calculated on the machine only, not the pallet, the packaging and the extra weight.) So the initial 199,- soon rose up to some 249,- plus insurance plus this and that, The more often I called, the more precise the data was, the less attractive got their offers (the prices still going up each time). "Too sleek, too windy, to shaky with exact figures" I thought and found "cargointernational.de".
A different world! A simple 1-2-3 web surface, straight-away answers on the phone: That lady (and you get the same person each time you call, not some random and different one), she really took her time explaining all to me and warning me about things that I hadn't thought of first. Calculating the washer with a pallet, then calculating it with packaging and slightly higher weight, finally using their freight calculator online:
It was always 179,- each time plus 7,- insurance up to 500 value. Wham-bam, done. I knew how to pack it, how it would be shipped, I knew what to do. Relief!
But here is the full story:
Using some cheap drawings that I made I could get all the transport details together. 179,- for 1 machine or 299,- for both. Freddy said, he'd like the washer only.
Then I took to arranging convenient dates for seller, for Freddy, for myself and for my friend that would help me.
And last weekend we finally managed to get his beautiful Whirly ready for dispatch (see link)
As by today, all is paid for, the "cruise" travel for our Lady WP BD is booked.
Enjoy the show ;-)
Joe
"the land of lemon blossoms" ;-)))
