katandbob
8th July 2006, 11:28 PM
Hi All, :)
As I said on becca's Groupage post, I have just finalised the final extra costs of getting our stuff here, as we didn’t have much to take in the end (gave most of our stuff to my daughter!) I had contacted CARGOBOOKERS and EXCESSBAGGAGE, as the usual removal co's were quoting 60cubic foot as a minimum load..cheapest quote was £650.
We ended up using Cargobookers as their website was easy to use, and they were friendly and got back to me quickly with an initial quote....oh and you get 8 free 50cm square boxes (£10 delivery charge for courier) the first quote price was £240 and then when the boxes have been picked up, and weighed they send you the final quote....as I added 4 extra boxes the shipment was 1.5 cubic Metres, and weighed 267kg so the final bill was £280
INSURANCE, I contacted a few, such as LP, but they wouldn’t insure self packed....
I was recommended an insurance firm by a local removal company, but they only insure self pack for total loss cover, which provides protection from Accidental Loss or Damage. which cost me £56 for £2,900 worth of cover
(reason-insurance.com)
Cargobookers said they would contact me as soon as they had shipped them off from Southampton, with the name of the ship, ETA and waybill no.
Well we received this information the week after we landed in NZ on email and I left it a few weeks till we were in Christchurch....
We were told that the shipment was due in Christchurch on or around the end of June, beginning of July - this information was wrong though and caused a slight problem when I rang in NZ shipping company, because the ship name was wrong and the destination she couldn’t help me and she told me to get some more info....Cargobookers were a bit lax at contacting me back ( and had also not passed on our NZ mobile number to the Shipping company in NZ, which caused about 4 days of me chasing my tail in finding out where the shipment was)
So I rang them in the UK asking why they were not replying to my emails, they said they hadn’t received them…(maybe they dont like Xtra broadband ip or something???) they said they would get it sorted and the next day the NZ company contacted me and said that they had the correct details now and that the ship had arrived the day before!
The shipment actually landed in AUCKLAND, and was being shipped down to Christchurch via road - Cargobookers had told me from the start that I would have to pay the costs direct to the NZ shipping agent, and I was pleasantly surprised at the cost, $NZD250, So at the rate we got for our money that worked out at £83.33
Now the only thing I had to do then was sort the customs and MAF...Scary you may think[/B]...No, it was an easy process...I had to take my copy Itinerary along with the MAF HOLD form with all the shipping details on it, along with my passports. (they were for customs)...I went to MAF first, saw a lady called Nicola who talked me through filling the form in, she copied my list etc, and then said because we had not brought anything in that warranted a MAF inspection, then the cost was............$28.70!!!!!!!!!! I asked her how much it would have cost me if I had needed an inspection.........$50!!!
So I guess some of them Removal companies costs are well inflated!!
Next was customs.....(Nicola showed me on my map how to get there and also made me a photocopy of the form that I needed to hand to Customs so I had a copy that I could fax to the Shipping co to release the goods)...She was very nice (I am even going horse riding with her tomorrow - if the rain stops - its the first bit of bad weather we have had since we arrived on the 20th June )
Anyway....At customs the chap I saw was just as nice, said it would take him a while to enter everything into the computer, so he suggested I go look around the shops for half an hour!...Well I never need an excuse to shop!
When I got back he had done everything, it didn’t cost any money for the customs, and I was talking to him about shipping personal belongings, saying I had left most of the stuff, He told me I have FIVE YEARS to bring my personal belongings over So if I want some more of my things, I can get it sorted!! YAY! oh and he made another copy of the paperwork for me to send to the shippers!
Now as some of you may have guessed by now, we aren’t in Christchurch anymore! and so I said in conversation that I would have to go pick it all up...14hr round trip!
He said.........nah, you don't need to pick them up personally, just get a haulier to pick it up for you...and gave me a couple of companies to ring for quotes.....!!!
I did that and its cost me an extra $147.95 to get them shipped from Christchurch to Invercargill, then I can go pick them up from the hauliers yard!(this is excellent, as the last time I went to Christchurch and back to Invercargill, it cost us $140 in Diesel and then there’s the mileage that gets used up on the road tax thingy?? (Robs in bed so I can’t remember the correct term for this)
And that’s that....it was quite easy when I think about it and it cost me a total of .......£484.72...£435.41 if you don't count the extra haulage costs.
The Company that dealt with the process this side, is setting up a service for a similar self groupage, so if anyone wants his contact detail...PM with your email address and I will forward his contact details.
OK I saved myself £214.59 if I compared it to the cheapest Removal quote, and you will have to decide if its work it or go the extra for a company to come in and pack everything, etc? But I am glad I did it my self....
Thats that then folks....Hope I haven’t put you to sleep! ;) and that it helps in some way to make the process of moving your stuff easy...
I'll let you know how my boxes arrive and how successful my packing skill were next week
Kat
As I said on becca's Groupage post, I have just finalised the final extra costs of getting our stuff here, as we didn’t have much to take in the end (gave most of our stuff to my daughter!) I had contacted CARGOBOOKERS and EXCESSBAGGAGE, as the usual removal co's were quoting 60cubic foot as a minimum load..cheapest quote was £650.
We ended up using Cargobookers as their website was easy to use, and they were friendly and got back to me quickly with an initial quote....oh and you get 8 free 50cm square boxes (£10 delivery charge for courier) the first quote price was £240 and then when the boxes have been picked up, and weighed they send you the final quote....as I added 4 extra boxes the shipment was 1.5 cubic Metres, and weighed 267kg so the final bill was £280
INSURANCE, I contacted a few, such as LP, but they wouldn’t insure self packed....
I was recommended an insurance firm by a local removal company, but they only insure self pack for total loss cover, which provides protection from Accidental Loss or Damage. which cost me £56 for £2,900 worth of cover
(reason-insurance.com)
Cargobookers said they would contact me as soon as they had shipped them off from Southampton, with the name of the ship, ETA and waybill no.
Well we received this information the week after we landed in NZ on email and I left it a few weeks till we were in Christchurch....
We were told that the shipment was due in Christchurch on or around the end of June, beginning of July - this information was wrong though and caused a slight problem when I rang in NZ shipping company, because the ship name was wrong and the destination she couldn’t help me and she told me to get some more info....Cargobookers were a bit lax at contacting me back ( and had also not passed on our NZ mobile number to the Shipping company in NZ, which caused about 4 days of me chasing my tail in finding out where the shipment was)
So I rang them in the UK asking why they were not replying to my emails, they said they hadn’t received them…(maybe they dont like Xtra broadband ip or something???) they said they would get it sorted and the next day the NZ company contacted me and said that they had the correct details now and that the ship had arrived the day before!
The shipment actually landed in AUCKLAND, and was being shipped down to Christchurch via road - Cargobookers had told me from the start that I would have to pay the costs direct to the NZ shipping agent, and I was pleasantly surprised at the cost, $NZD250, So at the rate we got for our money that worked out at £83.33
Now the only thing I had to do then was sort the customs and MAF...Scary you may think[/B]...No, it was an easy process...I had to take my copy Itinerary along with the MAF HOLD form with all the shipping details on it, along with my passports. (they were for customs)...I went to MAF first, saw a lady called Nicola who talked me through filling the form in, she copied my list etc, and then said because we had not brought anything in that warranted a MAF inspection, then the cost was............$28.70!!!!!!!!!! I asked her how much it would have cost me if I had needed an inspection.........$50!!!
So I guess some of them Removal companies costs are well inflated!!
Next was customs.....(Nicola showed me on my map how to get there and also made me a photocopy of the form that I needed to hand to Customs so I had a copy that I could fax to the Shipping co to release the goods)...She was very nice (I am even going horse riding with her tomorrow - if the rain stops - its the first bit of bad weather we have had since we arrived on the 20th June )
Anyway....At customs the chap I saw was just as nice, said it would take him a while to enter everything into the computer, so he suggested I go look around the shops for half an hour!...Well I never need an excuse to shop!
When I got back he had done everything, it didn’t cost any money for the customs, and I was talking to him about shipping personal belongings, saying I had left most of the stuff, He told me I have FIVE YEARS to bring my personal belongings over So if I want some more of my things, I can get it sorted!! YAY! oh and he made another copy of the paperwork for me to send to the shippers!
Now as some of you may have guessed by now, we aren’t in Christchurch anymore! and so I said in conversation that I would have to go pick it all up...14hr round trip!
He said.........nah, you don't need to pick them up personally, just get a haulier to pick it up for you...and gave me a couple of companies to ring for quotes.....!!!
I did that and its cost me an extra $147.95 to get them shipped from Christchurch to Invercargill, then I can go pick them up from the hauliers yard!(this is excellent, as the last time I went to Christchurch and back to Invercargill, it cost us $140 in Diesel and then there’s the mileage that gets used up on the road tax thingy?? (Robs in bed so I can’t remember the correct term for this)
And that’s that....it was quite easy when I think about it and it cost me a total of .......£484.72...£435.41 if you don't count the extra haulage costs.
The Company that dealt with the process this side, is setting up a service for a similar self groupage, so if anyone wants his contact detail...PM with your email address and I will forward his contact details.
OK I saved myself £214.59 if I compared it to the cheapest Removal quote, and you will have to decide if its work it or go the extra for a company to come in and pack everything, etc? But I am glad I did it my self....
Thats that then folks....Hope I haven’t put you to sleep! ;) and that it helps in some way to make the process of moving your stuff easy...
I'll let you know how my boxes arrive and how successful my packing skill were next week
Kat