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    Yeah I tried them on jacks recommendation as they're a german company, 3 figures again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MK999 View Post
    Tried parcel monkey, hermes, P4D and P2G, all came in at ridiculous amounts. Which is why I went on to trying companies direct. If you can find me a price better then great, apparently all the germans use hermes but it refuses to quote for foreign collection.
    Dimensions, weight etc?

    Will have a little look for you whilst I am online.

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    Böhlen is a bit too far mate. Have you tried DPD?

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    Quote Originally Posted by L14MNP View Post
    Dimensions, weight etc?

    Will have a little look for you whilst I am online.
    set of 4 borbet A 17x10/17x8.5's, so I'm guessing about 30kg and 70x70x60ish

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    Quote Originally Posted by MK999 View Post
    Also just tried setting up a UPS account, they need a company VAT number to set up credit, and their prices for private shipping with a UPS account are the same.
    My rents have their own vat number so I use that, but with ups it has to be delivered to a business otherwise the rates change based on residential charges.

    when I next ship somthing either way Ill post a screengrab to show you what I mean about the discount, at the end of the day I haggled when I set the account up by saying that over £500 of packages will be sent a month as its a small buisness, ive never paid more than £80 in a month, and with that they have never complained about giving the discount.

    and for all the UPS haters, the other day I went to post a 4kg item to guernsey with royal fail, but they wanted over £15 to send it, so I called UPS but they didnt service the channel islands, but what they did was send it to France and get their national service to redirect it back to guernsey, including all that messing around i still saved £8 with ups and on a next day delivery when fail wanted more for under 48hr.

    on a side note, do you not know any long distance hgv drivers? then itll only cost you a few beers then!

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    For all you UPS haters, and I know its been a while, but I just managed to send a set of alloys yesterday to viva-la France for £33 via UPS on next day delivery!


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    Need a company name/vat number and all that crap though

    BTW in the end the borbet guy was an ass and demanded 150 euro for shipping or no wheels, so I told him to keep them, got some different ones sent the week after for 60 euro, same size

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