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Thread ID: 129463 2013-02-24 09:17:00 Getting 'pick-up only' TM items packed and shipped? Billy T (70) PC World Chat
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1329713 2013-02-24 09:17:00 Hi Team

Mrs T wants to buy four oak dining chairs via TM, but they are located in Carterton and are pick up only, while
we are on the North Shore in Auckland. I've searched fairly extensively on the web and through TM but can't
see any service that offers pick-up and packing.

I found 'Pack & Ship' which seems to align with TM buyers and sellers, but their branches are few and far between,
the closest to Carterton being Wellington! It is too far to drive, but the chairs are not suitable for a standard courier
pick-up and would need some basic protection for the journey North.

This can't be an unusual or uncommon situation, so how is it normally achieved?

Anybody know the answers?

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
1329714 2013-02-24 09:22:00 About all I can think of would be a furniture removal company but I have no idea what the cost would be. Marnie (4574)
1329715 2013-02-24 09:24:00 If I'm near Carterton again soon I could bring them down to welly for Pack & Ship? I'm not sure when I'll be next up and if they'll fit in my car though :p

Out of utter coincidence, I think you *might* have bought the missus' neighbours stuff :D small world if it is
The Error Guy (14052)
1329716 2013-02-24 09:30:00 Would the seller wrap the chairs in bubble-wrap/corrugated cardboard so a standard courier could collect them? Jen (38)
1329717 2013-02-24 09:46:00 Post a question on the auction page and ask the seller if they would be prepared to meet your needs part-way :) Zippity (58)
1329718 2013-02-24 18:43:00 Generally you have to arrange a nearby person to collect.
Pickup is because they don't want to arrange shipping.....
pctek (84)
1329719 2013-02-24 21:31:00 Try these people: http://www.shipmytrade.co.nz/ Terry Porritt (14)
1329720 2013-02-26 08:41:00 I'm working on getting ShipMyTrade on the job, but first I have to get address and phone number details from the seller, and at present his bank account number is incorrect, as is the replacement he sent (that is clear enough evidence that there is no scam!) so I can't even pay him.

The seller is genuine, his feedback is clean, and there is nothing shonky about the deal, but he doesn't have the makings for packing, though he would drop them at the shipper's' local depot for us. Problem is, that particular shipper has a cavalier attitude to customers' goods (as declared in their condtions for transport) and basically they are saying 'If it ain't boxed, it goes into the heap, and if it gets damaged, stiff shlt'.

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
1329721 2013-02-26 19:09:00 Billy try
Mana Transport
Furniture Removal Specialists
cnr Broken Hill Rd & Kinleith Gro Porirua 04 237 6032
Kapiti PO Box50 123 Porua 04-298 4832
Fax 237 6230
Email info@mana-transport.co.nz
Website www.mana-transport.co.nz

They will pickup and deliver to Auckland
ooh yeh (2935)
1329722 2013-02-26 19:51:00 Conroy removals have a section on there site for picking up Trademe purchases. http://www.conroy.co.nz/
:)
Trev (427)
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