uship.com

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If you ever need to ship your bike somewhere, you might want to check out uship.com. It made it very easy to get my buell from a St Louis suburb to New York.

I bought the bike on a Friday and it was at my house on Monday evening, tied down 15 ways to Sunday and wrapped in a thick moving quilt in a box truck. $465.

Uship is auction site. Shippers, most of them independent small operators, running all over the country check uship for loads needing to go their way on there next trip.

You register and post your need - "Motorcycle needs to go from STL to NYC" and you'll start getting bids and profiles in about 5 minutes. Shippers are graded like ebay with stars and lots of feedback, etc. They really seem to pay attention to the customer to keep their reps up, but YMMV.

I picked out a guy who had a good motorcycle category reputation. I squared the deal with the bike's seller and accepted his shipping bid a few minutes later. He texted me every few hours to let me know where he was and no question took longer than 5 min for response. It was a pretty amazing, easy process. [up]

- Charlie

 

[toddb3]

Nice, I sold my last bike over the internet to a guy in Texas. He was bragging about having to only pay $250 to ship it from Alabama to Central TX but when the movers showed up at my house they were driving a car carrier and backed a pick-up truck off the trailer and tied, (with rope) not strapped the bike in the back of the truck! I felt bad for the guy so I threw in some tie downs and called him. I think he was a stunter because he didnt care when I told him about it but I would've been pissed!