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eBay prices aren't quite so attractive once you account for the insured truck freight charge. Khorns are big (oversize or dimensional weight charge likely applies) and heavy (you will pay the greater of the weight charge or the dimensional weight charge) and insurance beyond $100 or so per waybill is also expensive. Plus truck freight is poor at not damaging anything not palletized, which is highly recommended. You now may be looking at a pallet charge. Finally, there is always a surcharge to deliver truck freight to a residential address or a business without a loading dock.Depending on where you are and where the seller is, there could be multiple waybills involved. You are relying on the seller's acumen with regard to shipping; you want someone who knows enough to seek out a truck freight company that goes directly from his yard to yours. In many cases this is not possible, and then you need someone who knows enough to ship via the fewest number of trucking companies handling the cargo. This is because each time the cargo changes carriers, a new waybill is created, and each waybill is a separately billed shipment. So costs can double or triple quickly.Based on my extensive experience (15 years +) with eBay sellers, most of whom know only one carrier and one shipping method, based mostly on their own convenience rather than any effort made to lower costs or insure good handling of the product, you are really asking for a lot of divine intervention coming to your aid.If something goes wrong, pay again going back the other way.A pair on eBay needs to be priced $500~$1000 lower, and possibly even more, considering the performance and condition can be confirmed with a local pair, and at least some measure of support could be agreed upon.
Did you mean $5000 ?
No 5K dollars, just equivalent $500 usd or 5 Benjamin Frankling bills.
