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Shipping Personel Effects to Australia

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  • 06-12-2010 6:23pm
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    chubbyhomer
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    Hi All,
    Looking for some advice on shipping personal effects to Oz. I have gotten a few quotes back from a few companies but I've found a company called Putra Venture out of Dublin and I was wondering has anyone had any dealings with them?
    I have about 5 or 6 tea chest sized boxes and 4 bicycle boxes in total to be shipped. We don't think we have enough stuff to justify using a container for shipping.

    Any help/recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

    Chubby


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    Jumpy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    chubbyhomer wrote: »
    Hi All,
    Looking for some advice on shipping personal effects to Oz. I have gotten a few quotes back from a few companies but I've found a company called Putra Venture out of Dublin and I was wondering has anyone had any dealings with them?
    I have about 5 or 6 tea chest sized boxes and 4 bicycle boxes in total to be shipped. We don't think we have enough stuff to justify using a container for shipping.

    Any help/recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

    Chubby

    Im in exactly the same situation. When are you going?


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    chubbyhomer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭chubbyhomer


    We're flying middle of January to Sydney. Hoping to have our items ready to ship soon enough for our arrival then.


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    Jagera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 910 ✭✭✭Jagera


    I have used this guy several times. He's very thorough and does a great service.
    www.baggage.ie


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    Jumpy
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    bw wrote: »
    I have used this guy several times. He's very thorough and does a great service.
    www.baggage.ie

    Jesus. What a rip-off. 445 a cubic meter? LOL.


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    Jumpy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    chubbyhomer wrote: »
    We're flying middle of January to Sydney. Hoping to have our items ready to ship soon enough for our arrival then.

    I wont be shipping anything till next year.


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    chubbyhomer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭chubbyhomer


    So far, our best quote has been from AA economy freight at €380 per cubic metre. Does that sound good?


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    ballooba
    Registered Users Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭ballooba


    20 foot container is 33 cubic metres.
    40 foot is 67.5.

    It seems expensive. It may be cheaper to share with others.


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    karl bracken
    Registered Users Posts: 387 ✭✭karl bracken


    had the exact same problem rang loads a dem and AnPost were the cheapest

    sent 20 kilos fairly big box cant remember the dimensions, prob as big as a 40inch tv and a foot and half deep (sorry only thing close that looks about the size!) for 135 took about 8 working days

    downside they would only insure to value of 350 and sending it back home will be bout 440 aus dollars


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    Ozeire
    Registered Users Posts: 575 ✭✭✭Ozeire


    chubbyhomer wrote: »
    Hi All,
    Looking for some advice on shipping personal effects to Oz. I have gotten a few quotes back from a few companies but I've found a company called Putra Venture out of Dublin and I was wondering has anyone had any dealings with them?
    I have about 5 or 6 tea chest sized boxes and 4 bicycle boxes in total to be shipped. We don't think we have enough stuff to justify using a container for shipping.

    Any help/recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

    Chubby
    chubbyhomer wrote: »
    Hi All,
    Looking for some advice on shipping personal effects to Oz. I have gotten a few quotes back from a few companies but I've found a company called Putra Venture out of Dublin and I was wondering has anyone had any dealings with them?
    I have about 5 or 6 tea chest sized boxes and 4 bicycle boxes in total to be shipped. We don't think we have enough stuff to justify using a container for shipping.

    Any help/recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

    Chubby

    I'm in the middle of selling off pretty much every thing . Moving early next year . Took a look at all the stuff we have n how much it would cost to send it over and decided best to just try and sell it here and start all over again in Oz .

    Trying to keep it to only personal stuff that we can't ever buy again . It's just to expensive to send over even a little stuff . Being told 100's for just a suit case size

    Priced container and got a quote of €5000 for a 40ft one . Are the bicycle really expencive or could they be bought in Oz. You might end up getting new ones for the price of shipping the old ones .


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    ballooba
    Registered Users Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭ballooba


    Ozeire wrote: »
    Priced container and got a quote of €5000 for a 40ft one . Are the bicycle really expencive or could they be bought in Oz. You might end up getting new ones for the price of shipping the old ones .
    That's about EUR 70 per square metre. I've decided to sell all my stuff before leaving but I would have needed a 20 foot for the car.


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    Ozeire
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    ballooba wrote: »
    That's about EUR 70 per square metre. I've decided to sell all my stuff before leaving but I would have needed a 20 foot for the car.

    Yeah bring cars from Ireland to OZ isn't the best either . If you look you'll prob see that you'd pick up a good car for the price it would cost you to ship it over and all the import crap .

    Plus depending on your car mightn't be easy to get parts for it say it's VW . Alot cheaper to get parts for Holdens .


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