Shipping pins to New Zealand from Alaska

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NZ pinball & arcade buy, sell & exchange page on f.b. is a good place to start.
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#4 4 years ago

MAT

Cantabkiwi

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Welcome. Good strong community here for pinballs. Prices have gone mad!

There are some great guys around the country that can help you....Dave, Kerry, Simon, Phil, Ian.

Message me or RotaDave to help.

Stay well

#5 4 years ago

rotordave

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Quoted from Cantabkiwi:
Message me or RotaDave to help.

Hey, at least spell my name right! Lolllll

With prices the way they are here now (ie stupidly retarded) then yes, you should ship them here.

Presuming your JP is the DE one, all pins will work on 230v with some simple adjustments.

Alas, I don’t have any hookups for freight from Alaska. I would presume the pins would need to be shipped to another port to come back here. Then they will arrive in Auckland or Wellington for collection.

Ring around some freight brokers for quotes.

Tell them each pin (on a pallet) is 1.1 cubic metres.

#6 4 years ago

LXL

Isochronic_Frost

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Quoted from Dawson:
Its been a long time being on Pinside or even playing pinball for that matter. I have moved to New Zealand to be with my lovely wife, in a fantastic surf rich county .. I do miss Alaska and I really miss pinball .. I have 5 machines in AK, MB,AP,Xenon,FT and JP .. would you pinners sell or ship ? Will they even work in NZ with a different cycle and voltage? I was under the assumption it was just a matter of switching a voltage regulator plug .. not sure though
There is only one pin in New Plymouth , and Indy 500 at the hells pizza @2bucks a play ! fun game but pretty shit for the price ..
anyway there may be some games for sale in AK if its just not worth it . Missing machines daily
TJ

Hope they’re at a friends house and not in some brutal storage facility!!!

Couldn’t you pick somewhere just a little further? I mean PLEASE, only from Alaska to New Zealand??

#7 4 years ago

TJD

Dawson

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Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:
Hope they’re at a friends house and not in some brutal storage facility!!!
Couldn’t you pick somewhere just a little further? I mean PLEASE, only from Alaska to New Zealand??

luckily they are in a fairly safe storage area, getting packed into a container is another issue.. I always seem to do stuff the hard way , my motif Ive heard sloth of mixed results on the voltage step down, units being shite.. so stoked my machines can be relocated ..

I should mention the MB is the new version ..
I also really like that JP on trade me. if anyone knows the owner . the BK2000 seems fair , prices in America are insane! if you can find them

I will mention the people in NZ are the most helpful, kind, sharing bunch I've ever been around. I feel grateful and privileged to be part of this beautiful continent

#8 4 years ago

GDS

7oxford

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Hi, Welcome to NZ.
You will need someone to wrap the pins on a pallet. You can get 2 pins on a pallet sitting on their backs if wrapped correctly. Otherwise a single pin on its bottom. You are charged by volume. 2 pins on a pallet is 1.6 cubic meters. PM me for some packing instructions.
DoortoDoor and Sneddens are a couple of local freight forwarders you can get quotes from.
You need to ask if you can import tax free. You usually can if you ship within a certain time of moving here, otherwise you may get hit with 15% GST.
If you are only here short term you would need to weigh in the price of potentially shipping them back to the US too.
The local JP is priced a little over the odds, but it will be mint having been restored by Tilt.
There are pins on location in Wellington. A fair drive but not unusual for those in the naki to travel to the big smoke for the weekend.

#9 4 years ago

rotordave

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OP
Quoted from Dawson:
I should mention the MB is the new version ..

That can also be changed, but you have to rewire the transformer plug.

I have an MMR, you can copy my wiring.

#10 4 years ago

GUL

pinsanity

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OP
Quoted from Dawson:
I should mention the MB is the new version ..

There's no region protection on CGC machines so you can buy NIB in the US (or anywhere else) and direct import down under to bypass the domestic distributor.

A group of us in Australia do it as a syndicate on a regular basis for that very reason.

#11 4 years ago

TOM

Tomass

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Do you have any help here in AK?

#12 4 years ago

TJD

Dawson

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Quoted from Tomass:
Do you have any help here in AK?

Yeah, Not sure if the reliability though. I own Lakeview Outfitters in Cooper Landing if you like Flyfishing the Kenai River . This thread has been a bit of a relief .

Quoted from 7oxford:
Hi, Welcome to NZ.
You will need someone to wrap the pins on a pallet. You can get 2 pins on a pallet sitting on their backs if wrapped correctly. Otherwise a single pin on its bottom. You are charged by volume. 2 pins on a pallet is 1.6 cubic meters. PM me for some packing instructions.
DoortoDoor and Sneddens are a couple of local freight forwarders you can get quotes from.
You need to ask if you can import tax free. You usually can if you ship within a certain time of moving here, otherwise you may get hit with 15% GST.
If you are only here short term you would need to weigh in the price of potentially shipping them back to the US too.
The local JP is priced a little over the odds, but it will be mint having been restored by Tilt.
There are pins on location in Wellington. A fair drive but not unusual for those in the naki to travel to the big smoke for the weekend.

@ thanks heaps for your willingness to help and information. packing pinball machines in containers for a salty ocean ride freaks me out . Hopefully soon we can play pinball in the Naki ,

#13 4 years ago

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Ballypinball

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Quoted from pinsanity:
There's no region protection on CGC machines so you can buy NIB in the US (or anywhere else) and direct import down under to bypass the domestic distributor.
A group of us in Australia do it as a syndicate on a regular basis for that very reason.

You are so full of shit, No CGC Distributor is shipping bulk games outside USA, and they sell for the same price here with shipping and GST they are in the USA,

also any service tickets or registrations from Australia are forwarded to the local Distributor

#14 4 years ago

XYZ

LukyDuck

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Quoted from Isochronic_Frost:
Couldn’t you pick somewhere just a little further? I mean PLEASE, only from Alaska to New Zealand??

Well, at least they are being shipped north to south in the same ocean! Imagine he was trying to ship to the Atlantic side of things.

#15 4 years ago

TOM

Tomass

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OP
Quoted from Dawson:
Yeah, Not sure if the reliability though. I own Lakeview Outfitters in Cooper Landing if you like Flyfishing the Kenai River . This thread has been a bit of a relief .

Thats a good ways from me but if you get stuck I could try to help out.

1 month later

#16 3 years ago

TJD

Dawson

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Well it seems shipping for Alaska is nearly impossible at this point . If I had more machines up there the 15000 dollar price tag might be feasible .. pretty bummmer for sure .

Always looking here for machines, pretty hard case though .

what pub has the best machines in Auckland .. I’m up here for a few days to pick up my pup .. and the wife is teaching.. I’ve got pinball on my mind .

Thanks

#17 3 years ago

rotordave

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$15 grand? Sounds ludicrous.

Why not price up a whole 20ft container?

Anchorage to Auckland (or Wellington)

That won’t be as much as your quote.

Contact a decent freight broker and ask for a quote. Or, even better, ask a broker in Alaska, they’ll be well versed in shipping stuff out of there.

You could even ask them if they can ship them to Los Angeles ... if you can get them there, I can get them to Auckland very cheaply for you. The Alaskan guys will know the best way.

Anyway - re your other question, Auckland is pin barren location wise. A few scattered around. The new Timezone in Newmarket has Stranger things and BK3.

#18 3 years ago

TJD

Dawson

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thanks for the response 15k was for a 20 footer The shipper could not get a shared container due to the CVID. pack and send guys said it was nearly impossibe to get a quote or get ahold of anyone in Alaska in the shipping industry .. hmmmm

ill spend some time tomorrow trying again with AK and Aukland shippers ..

yep would like to put a few more machines if I do ship a 20 footer ..

if I can get a container full , we will have plenty of well cared for machines in New Plymouth !!

#19 3 years ago

GDS

7oxford

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Pack and send? Do you mean these guys? https://www.packsend.co.nz/

I wouldn’t recommend. They are a small parcel business. Not really into shipping pallets.

If you can’t get them on a pallet you are stuck though. You can get 11 pallets in a 20 footer so you need to ship around 11 pins to make using a whole container more cost effective that shipping a part load container.

#20 3 years ago

rotordave

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You can get 34 pins in a 20ft container.

If you can pack properly.

#21 3 years ago

JBD

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A few of the Hell Pizza have pins. Northcote had 3 and they generally all work (junkyard, DE guns and roses and Indiana jones). New Lynn had B S Dracula.

9 months later

#22 3 years ago

TJD

Dawson

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Well my machines are finally getting shipped , and I’ve just been told 7 machines will fill a 20 foot container? That can’t be right ?

I do have a few other bits but not much .

Is this possible ?

Worried because the shipping went from 7 ships to 2 ships ..

Now the shipping company says the charge is going to be much higher .. eeeek.

#23 3 years ago

TOM

Tomass

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Quoted from Dawson:
Well my machines are finally getting shipped , and I’ve just been told 7 machines will fill a 20 foot container? That can’t be right ?
I do have a few other bits but not much .
Is this possible ?
Worried because the shipping went from 7 ships to 2 ships ..
Now the shipping company says the charge is going to be much higher .. eeeek.

Sounds like they are shipping with legs on? Yeah, that seems crazy.

#24 3 years ago

rotordave

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OP
Quoted from Dawson:
Well my machines are finally getting shipped , and I’ve just been told 7 machines will fill a 20 foot container? That can’t be right ?

You can fit 32 pins in a 20ft container.

If they’re wrapped up, no legs, first row upright and second row on the top.

So 7 … lol

Even if they were on individual pallets, and all on the floor of the container, you’d fit more than 7.

Each pin (folded up) is around 1 cube. Around 1.2 when on a pallet.

Someone’s got their numbers mixed up.

7 months later

#25 2 years ago

TJD

Dawson

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Update : my machines are on there way maybe in the next week, went for Alaska to Tacoma to LA to Singapore then to Auckland, hoping the shipper packed things up right . First thing in order is to switch the transformer wires over and the plug to NZ power . Still unsure how to change the voltage on these machines. Super excited to get to play some pinball again as New Zealand has very few game around .

#26 2 years ago

rotordave

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