Ever used GunBroker/Fedex shipping for auction?

woodmaster9

Has anyone ever used the GunBroker / Fedex shipping on the auction site?

I was wondering how it worked....
Is it expensive?
Will they pick up a firearm from your home?

338weatherby

I use it. Just need to set it up to draw the shipping charges out of an account. You enter the info for the item your shipping and print the label. I don't have them pick it up but I'm sure they will. Dropping off is nice with the prepaid label, no questions asked. What is also nice is that you can add the buyers email to to receive updates to keep them informed. The costs seem good to me.

woodmaster9

Where do you drop it off?

Around here, from guys I've talked to, you have to take a gun to the distribution center (This is UPS, not fedex) and it depends upon who's working the counter as to whether they will accept the shipment.

I've heard this from several different people over the years.

It's easier to just take it to a FFL for shipping but then it costs $$ since they want a little piece of the pie.

338weatherby

I am an FFL but have dropped off rifles at the FedEx store before I had the license as well. No handguns through FedEx though. They are air only and cost too much. I use USPS for handguns.

Locust Fork

My shipping days are Tuesday and Friday....and Fed Ex is how I ship all of my long guns. I ship a LOT too. Fed Ex through Gun Broker is the very EASIEST thing you can do.

When you sell your item you can go to "my shipping"...."create a shipment" and just enter the customer's FFL number and it will fill in the address for you.

It saves your tracking numbers all there in your Gun Broker account. VERY HANDY!

You can call Fed Ex and have your package picked up at your home or business. (They may require that you set up an actual account with Fed Ex to do this...but it does not actually cost anything.)

woodmaster9

HI LF!

What's the best way for handguns?
I'm not a licensee but of course shipments would be to a ffl.

It's my understanding that USPS accepts handguns from FFLs only.

Locust Fork

Handguns are different...just because (as you said) they have to be shipped by an FFL to be shipped through the USPS.

It costs on average....$35 or so to ship a handgun if you have to insure it for $1000 if you use USPS.

The private shippers all require that you ship a handgun overnight...which will cost over $50 easily for the same package (if not more.)

So, depending on what you are shipping it MAY or may not save you money to give a local FFL your handgun to ship for you. If they charge $25 and shipping costs another $35...it may actually be less expensive to ship overnight and skip the dealer. They can log it in from you...and ship it to your customer's FFL. If you are selling a handgun I would put "actual shipping" in your listing and figure out the best route to take when it comes time.

Doc

Fed-Ex charged me $103 to send my 1911 to a gunsmith last year.

They and UPS know non-FFLs cannot use USPS and absolutely rape customers shipping pistols.

Locust Fork

The most I have had to pay was $150....it was also a 1911. If I remember right it was over $1000 insurance.

That was one of those very RARE ordeals where the postal service didn't deliver to that area.

Shipping is a pain, but using the Gun Broker system helps a lot to cut down on some of the aggrivation.

miltsod

I would not ship using gunbroker. Some ammo I sold was lost and I am unable to file a claim with fedex because gunbroker is the shipper account holder. Gunbroker wont respond to any of my inquiries.