If I were to buy an antique (furniture) in Vietnam or Cambodia, how do I get it home?
If I were to buy an antique (furniture) in Vietnam or Cambodia, how do I get it home?
I want to be open to the possibility of buying a piece of furniture but I have no idea how I would get it back..
Help!
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from there in the country u send it to one of ur neigbors and they will keep it there til u get back if ur nighbors are nice people or if u don’t trust them send it to a bestfriend.
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Shipping by air or sea. We brought a whole house worth of rataan furniture back from Thailand to the US, and it was brought over by boat.
As fishlake posted, you ship it via ocean freight (air would be VERY expensive). The people you buy from will make all the arrangements and you will pay shipping and Vietnamese port charges up front. (I don’t know about Cambodia) The last time I shipped was almost 3 years ago and the charge was $90 (USD)/meter (cubic) from Saigon to eastern seaboard US. I also had to pay US port charges of about $50/meter.
One last tip, make sure that you are allowed to export the antique. Get insurance and the shop keepers written assurance that the items are not “cultural icons”. I once brought an antique incence burner back to America in my luggage that the government would have been VERY unhappy to discover. (It was an honest mistake)
“rick “is right $90 cu meter to new york is what they will tell you and charge you at the place of purchase [ they should be able to arrange shipping for you or at least direct you to an area where you can find shippers].. anyway it will take about 2 months to get to the usa, then you will be notified and told to send an amount of money to the receivers in [ usually ] california.. they will release your product and have it sent overland to a destination warehouse of their choice, then you will have to go pay a customs fee , get a release slip go, to the warehouse pay another fee and then receive your product.. you can get a receiving company in the usa to do all that for a small fee and even get it trucked to your house.. it a pain , and its expensive, dbl, triple even 10 times what you’ve paid for your product.. and there is little way of knowing how much its going to cost till you get it ..
ive done it a few times and once bought a $45 cyclo that cost me near $400 and 4 days work before i got it [ in pieces] to my home.. 10 years later i still have it and at this point the cost means little.. not to discourage you..fees you pay are difficult to determine in advance because in addition to size weight and value , you are charged for other services that may or may not be provided, such as inspections by homeland security , if they inspect ,your charged ,if not , your not , disinfecting spraying, if neccessary is another fee, wearhouse fee for over stay is huge so when your notified go get it asap
use DHL! or some forwarders company can help.
Where’s home? if your Australian be careful if it has any small holes (bug) which it probably will you may have problems ahead