From Kenny Balys Sent Mon, Sep 2nd 2019, 17:00
From Kenny Balys Sent Mon, Sep 2nd 2019, 17:00
I have experience with this. The moving company must pack the gear themselves for the insurance. If you have a decent collection of road cases they will use those and then pack them further. There is nothing wrong with hovering over them, like a mother goose, pointing out any short comings and nit picking the packing methods. The better prepared you are, the better a job they do. The packers should be professionals, used to packing Auntie Lydia's porcelan figurine collection. If the packers seem off, or drunk or brutal, shut it down immediately and get on the phone to the company. Basically, you need to stand there and be present for everything. Its your stuff. You also have to make it crystal clear to insurance that they are hauling some vintage synths, that are replaceable, but only after acquisition and restoration and absurd amounts of $$$. All policies will basically say "6 voice analogue music synthesizer -> replacement value $999" based on the basic new synth price. The policy givers may be ignorant, but the adjusters are surprisingly adept and knowledgeable. ie) A Behringer DeepMind is a suitable replacement for a Roland Jupiter-6 in the insurance world. Are you moving by sea or air? If by sea, you can contact a shipping company directly as they will use their own contractors for the ground move to the ship haven. I moved to Iceland and used a company called Eimskip. They own ships and took care of everything from door to door. The negotiation process took nearly 2 months. They did right by me but I think they will only do Rotterdam, Hamburg, Copenagen & Reykjavík. On 02.09.19 16:48 , Sxnths wrote: > Hello, > > I am about to move my studio from the US to France. I am in contact with > multiple companies including AGS, Hilldrup, Interstate Intl as well as JK > Intl. They are all part of FIDI (for what it's worth). I was wondering if > anybody had experience with any of those moving companies, for moving synths > / studio gear? Also, all of them want to pack themselves the synths if I > want to insure the items with them, which I think is best to do (using a > third party company seems like it's gonna be more problems if anything > happens). I have a bit of a problem with that because I would like to pack > the synths myself and I'm not super comfortable with having all my studio > exposed before the move .... Does anybody has any recommendation / > experience to share related to this problem? > > Thank you in advance, benoit >