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(04-18-2025, 12:20 PM)EightFingers Wrote: You might verify how that insurance works. Determining value is where the problem is. I shipped some wood bowls I turned and one arrived cracked. They would not accept the value I placed on it since there was no “receipt”. Payment was denied
Yes, you have to prove the value of what was shipped for anything beyond the standard insurance offered by the carriers. Sales receipts will prove the value for items you sell. For a gift that gets harder but should be doable by showing the cost of comparable items from commercial vendors. I guess a provable work around is to have your "customer" send you a check, just don't cash it. If it gets damaged, that's your receipt. If you have to cash it to prove it's valid, so be it. Just send a return check to refund the money.
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John, that’s a good workaround for this case. My problem was shipping things to galleries for them to sell
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(04-21-2025, 02:42 PM)EightFingers Wrote: John, that’s a good workaround for this case. My problem was shipping things to galleries for them to sell
There has to be a solution for this. I would think many other people ship stuff to galleries. You might get some help if you have a way of contacting some of them. Or talking with the galleries directly for their advice.
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At the risk of telling you what you may already know, ,"LTL" means "Less Than Truckload." LTL Shippers contract to ship individual items that are combined to make up a full trailer load. Some shippers ("TL" shippers) only contract for a full truckload shipment.
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(04-21-2025, 05:48 PM)jteneyck Wrote: There has to be a solution for this. I would think many other people ship stuff to galleries. You might get some help if you have a way of contacting some of them. Or talking with the galleries directly for their advice.
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Been fighting that for over ten years now. Finally gave up on insurance and just pack best I can and hope. Fortunately, breakage has been low. All the artists I’ve discussed this with come back with one thing, pack well
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