quickclaw

Hi guys, OP here.. I have had multiple inquiries about shipping, and I think we can do it. Like I put in our auction listing, I have no experience shipping things this large, so if you guys want to give me some tips to save the eventual winner some bucks, I'm all for it! Someone sent a helpful e-mail (I don't know if it was you, Cassidy) saying to ship the two halves separate. I don't have any arcade-game-sized heavy-duty boxes handy, so I did some calling and found that the contractor for UPS' custom boxes happens to be close by! They said that they are happy to make nice heavy-duty 2-ply boxes for both halves at about $25 apiece. They say this is less than the local UPS center would charge, because they are the ones contracted to make the boxes for UPS. That's $50 there. The dimensions for the top half box (with some room for padding) will be 28 x 25 x 16". My husband says the top half of this game maxed out his 50-pound scale at 56 pounds, plus some. He thinks it will be closer to 65 pounds, plus about 5 pounds for the heavy-duty box & padding = 70 pounds. Just looking at the FedEx rate scale, this is about $35 to ship to NYC, for example. So now we're up to $85. The dimensions for the base (with some room for padding) will be 26 x 28 x 31. Again, this maxed out the scale, but we think it will be 60 pounds or so. Add 5 pounds = 65 pounds. Hit the Fedex page and WHOA!!! $119! That brings us to over $200 for shipping. Is this reasonable? :!: BUT WAIT, my husband says that he can (carefully) disassemble the base so that it ships flat, and so (YAY!) according to FedEx that brings us back down to the to the $35 level for NYC, meaning the total package and shipping cost for about 1000 miles from Milwaukee, WI (should someone want to do that) is somewhere around $120. Is this better? Reasonable? Sound right? Can I get cheaper boxes??? Should I? Help me out, Atari guys! :cool:

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