Friday, May 14, 2010
Weight Woes
The official estimate from our pre-packout survey came in e-mail this morning. Apparently, according to this guy's expert eye, we are close to a thousand pounds overweight. Ack!!! How can this be? We arrived at 900 pounds under weight (in case you haven't been paying attention we are allowed to ship 7200 pounds) and we haven't bought hardly anything. We can't afford to buy anything here, it is too expensive. Ok so we bought a cuckcoo clock, a stand mixer, and a toy box, but that is barely a hundred pounds, much less a thousand. What gives?
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Your place is furnished, isn't it? It's possible he's figuring some furniture in there. It's also possible he's just wrong. Despite all the recent discussions on Livelines that "these guys are professionals and know what they're doing," I think they're often wrong.
If you KNOW you haven't added 900 pounds, much less not gone over that, I wouldn't worry much about it. I would, however, decide what you can live without and have them pack that stuff in seperate boxes. If you find out you're overweight, you always could just pull those boxes out.
Ugh. I don't envy you.
I am hoping he is wrong. The next 3 weeks is going to busy trying to get rid of everything we don't really need. Hopefully all this work will make unpacking in Malawi a lot easier.
That happened to some people here. they aren't supposed to take into account the packing material. At least that is what I was told. They negotiated with the moving company and they said they would "override" the extra pounds and not make them pay it. They also called their travel tech and explained the situation. They too didn't buy anything and got rid of a ton and yet they were told they were overweight.
Good Luck! I think they are trying to get more money out of you.
I always make them weigh the boxes in front of me and mark it on the sheet so I KNOW exactly how much everything weighs. I'm a total pain during this process... and have to be as I just bought 4 more pieces of furniture, and am not sure I sold as much as I needed to in order to make weight.
I agree with Zoe - you just never know what your weight is going to be until the movers actually move you...
GOOD LUCK!! May the force be with all of us!
The moving company has made it very clear they WILL NOT weigh our shipment until it is all on the truck. Says it slows down the work to much to weigh each box as it goes. SIGH!
We've always has packers over-estimate our stuff, and the actual weight is much kinder. Still, good luck! :) We ended up several hundred pounds overweight last time, but it wasn't too expensive. We got rid of what we wanted to, and didn't worry about the rest. What's the point of getting rid of stuff you are going to have to, or want to, re-buy? And how much is your sanity worth anyway?? :)
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