Across the boarder isn't cheap at all. And if it goes to Canada you pay tax on pickup or the boarder right?

EDIT: Shipping inside the US, from loading dock to loading dock, I think shipping was 200-300 ish. To the home it was near $400+ USD

I had a pin shipped from Buffalo NY to Brooklyn NY VIA STI..it cost $429

I moved the game to the garage..when they picked it up one guy had a bad back..the other a bad knee. I had to load the game on my pin dolly..and move it to the lift gate for them. The used the pin dolly to load the game on the truck

They wrapped it in about 2 layers of shrink wrap...then threw a moving blanket over it.

The game did show up undamaged which is all that really matters...but I was rather shocked on the price..and the extent of the 'white glove' service

When I shipped my game via NAVL, I prepped the game and helped him load it. One guy cannot get a pinball machine into a truck.

Also, when the same guy returned a while later with my game, I met him outside, helped him get it off the truck, took it inside, and unwrapped it. I don't care how much they claim to have this magic "white glove" service, but since I have a very flat driveway and super easy access to the spot where a truck can pull up, I'm going to help in any way I can to make sure the game makes it on the truck AND is placed in a safe and secure position inside it.

For what it's worth, my experience was great, but there was NO WAY IN HELL the guy there could have done the work solo. I can't remember if they advertise that their guy(s) prep and load the game for you, but in my case, that wasn't going to happen.

My last two STI quotes were $614 Illinois to Calgary and $655 California to Calgary.
last time I had machine shipped STI the packing was terrible they threw a dirty cardboard box between glass and backbox, a single moving blanket over the top and some packing tape. On top of that it took 36 days to get to me. I'm going to make sure that the seller feels comfortable demanding quality packing at pick up before I schedule STI to move another pin.

Almost $700 to ship a game seems crazy high! My last few games I shipped within the US were around $388. I think the most I paid was around $450..