shipping a bass

I have a five string fretless I'm selling locally, mostly because I know how expensive they can be to ship. It's still being used, and I probably will sell it locally, so I haven't boxed it up and weighed it and gotten rates. I am thinking of selling it on here, but I'm not sure what a good mid...

Hey everyone, random question. I have an old beat-up 1950s plywood bass in DC that's currently in two pieces (neck separated from body). I'm wondering if there's any relatively economical way I could ship it to Madrid. And I don't have a flight case. Any ideas or suggestions? Probably not worth...

Greetings everyone, I'm new to the forum, thank you very much for accepting me, to the point, I'm thinking of buying a Romanian double bass on ebay but I'm from Chile, they are offering me a shipment in two parts, the neck and the body separately, what that would be attached here in my...

I've read some pretty stressful sounding tales on here re: flying with a bass. Anyway, I don't have a hard case and I've never removed the neck. the shipping costs I've found however make me think it would be cheapest to just buy it a seat on my flight. I don't care how it gets there or how...

Who are you using to ship your basses? I purchased a bass on here last week, and the owner shipped it USPS from Illinois (to Indiana) starting Thursday of last week……..here it is a week later and……STILL NO BASS! The expected delivery date was on Tuesday and the USPS tracking website is updating...

I am going through a kind of sticker shock at the prospect of shipping some basses for sale if and when they sell. FedEx is the easiest to ship from. Since when have basses been shipping out for way over $100? A test quote for a 11 pound standard guitar/bass box from CA to Maryland was as...