Marshy's tyre changing service

[Marshy]

Open for business

[Baddie]

lol...Will that bad boy be attach to trailer?

[Marshy]

It's 240kgs, so probably not

Although when it was right at the back of the empty trailer, the trailer felt awesomely balanced with all that weight behind the axle!!

It took me an hour to drag it across to its spot in the garage...

[Little Mick]

whack some wheels on it and a towbar... all done

[chubb]

How much did you pay??

[Mstevo]

How much did you pay??

$600 buck over in the states so be interesting to know

[Marshy]

Too much - there's an unfunny story behind why, which I won't go into. But it's now a sunk cost, so I'm gonna get over it and move on

[Marshy]

I went for a quality $800 unit (there were $600 ones available too). And naively, I thought 'delivery' meant delivery. But no, alas not. Shipping by boat turns out to be waaaay more expensive than I'd anticipated. Not the actual shipping cost (only $100), but the unanticipated port charges. This is what I was charged (and I'm completely flummoxed about what any of these actually are):

Destination Port Charges: $104.50
Destination Terminal Handling Charges: $27.50
Delivery Order Fee: $82.50
Destination Cargo Automation Fee: $22
Cargo Management Re-engineering Fee: $22
Integrated Cargo Systems Recovery Fee: $22
Destination Security Surcharge: $33
Destination Wharfage Charge: $16.50
Customs Clearance / Agency Fees: $220
Storage fees: $143.50

I could've saved $270-ish by being more organised and arranging for a cheaper agent to do the SAC. I wouldn't have had to pay storage if I'd submitted the paperwork earlier (customs took several days because they thought it wasn't genuinely under $1k purchase price). And a cheaper agent would've cost $100 instead of $220 to submit the SAC.

So my $800 machine cost double that. Picking it up was fun though - my little AMG in amongst a hundred big rigs in three queues at the docks, waiting for a forklift to load it into the trailer!!

This was after the triple-row queue and into the open loading area:

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[AndrewTurner]

Awesome!!

[Mstevo]

Nothings as cheap as you expect it to be when you have to ship"boat" it in
I was caught with some work equipment last year, those agents are a rort, so is customs

[Negrogrande]

Nice looking unit, shame about the port fees,

stick some casters on it and take it to the track $15 for tyre changes

[Marshy]

Or come to Lane Cove and get $10 changes

[Negrogrande]

Or come to Lane Cove and get $10 changes

does that include tyre removal?

if so sold!