Have a item I need shipped a few states away. I have a picture, exact weight and dimensions. I also have a very wide pickup/delivery window as I don't really need it RFN.
I've already spoken to 2 separate shipping/freight brokers and was quoted around $475 by both of them, for the exact same item, size, weight, time table, loading/offloading procedure and equipment, etc.
Decided to go on uShip and listed it with the exact same everything including a delivery window that can be from as early as tomorrow, to as late as the end of August. Just wanted to see if there was a better deal/better timetable, otherwise I'd just go with one of the brokers and be done with it.
All I can say is What. The. Fuck.
Almost instantly I got a chain of email alerts of pricing bids for the shipment.
Went and looked and they are all from 1700 to 2300+. For the exact same everything I got two quotes of around 475$ for from brokers. Absolutely zero difference.
I get that some of them may go out of their way a bit, or may not need to box or whatever. But literally 4-5 times the price? LOL
Then the best part is the ones sending add on messages trying to tell me that need all this special fucking equipment and shit to move a square crate on top of a pallet and that 'it might be more' if they have to use whatever machine to move it. It's a box on a fucking pallet you muppet; if you need 2k and special equipment to move it, you need to just work at the fucking mall.
Are freight companies just insane, or is this a case where they see individuals wanting a shipment and they send them some retarded idiot quote? Apparently whatever is happening is extremely common as I ended up with 12 different companies doing this within 30 minutes.
I've already spoken to 2 separate shipping/freight brokers and was quoted around $475 by both of them, for the exact same item, size, weight, time table, loading/offloading procedure and equipment, etc.
Decided to go on uShip and listed it with the exact same everything including a delivery window that can be from as early as tomorrow, to as late as the end of August. Just wanted to see if there was a better deal/better timetable, otherwise I'd just go with one of the brokers and be done with it.
All I can say is What. The. Fuck.
Almost instantly I got a chain of email alerts of pricing bids for the shipment.
Went and looked and they are all from 1700 to 2300+. For the exact same everything I got two quotes of around 475$ for from brokers. Absolutely zero difference.
I get that some of them may go out of their way a bit, or may not need to box or whatever. But literally 4-5 times the price? LOL
Then the best part is the ones sending add on messages trying to tell me that need all this special fucking equipment and shit to move a square crate on top of a pallet and that 'it might be more' if they have to use whatever machine to move it. It's a box on a fucking pallet you muppet; if you need 2k and special equipment to move it, you need to just work at the fucking mall.
Are freight companies just insane, or is this a case where they see individuals wanting a shipment and they send them some retarded idiot quote? Apparently whatever is happening is extremely common as I ended up with 12 different companies doing this within 30 minutes.
