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omg just thinking about that ..

i will never move :D
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Last year I ordered 80 records from this seller:
http://www.discogs.com/seller/zionsgate
I cost me $125 and the records arrived within 3 weeks. Maybe you could have a chat with these guys!
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the reason i decided to do this in the first place was because i looked at the flimsy ass boxes that i get from stores overseas like clone, juno and decks, and those go through the postal service - most importantly, the usps - and i know they get treated as poorly, if not worse, than luggage. if it can survive that, i can't see why i couldn't survive a simple flight overseas in the baggage hold of a plane, packed up far more carefully.
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cloutier wrote:the reason i decided to do this in the first place was because i looked at the flimsy azz boxes that i get from stores overseas like clone, juno and decks, and those go through the postal service - most importantly, the usps - and i know they get treated as poorly, if not worse, than luggage. if it can survive that, i can't see why i couldn't survive a simple flight overseas in the baggage hold of a plane, packed up far more carefully.
You will be fine then. Juno's boxes are a bit sketchy, but the packaging by Juno, Deejay.de and Clone is perfectly fine. I guess vinyl can handle a lot more than you guys think ;)
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i would test it out one time, i guess you will fly more than once
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for those that are curious...

everything arrived in one piece. marking the boxes as fragile, and making sure they acknowledge that at check-in, definitely went a long way. as did double boxing these things. there's a couple little dents on the corners, to be expected, but for the most part, these things look better than when they go through the mail.

would i do it again? probably not. but did it save me a lot of time and money? most definitely.
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nice :)
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Good to hear. Have a great time in Berlin!
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