Make sure you get insurance!!!!!!
Make sure you get insurance. I built a computer for a friend once and then I put it in the box the case came in. The box had heavy molded styrofoam shaped to fit the case perfectly, so I figured how could I go wrong? I then went to a certain chain shipping store to ship this computer. The owner of the store convinced me to buy shipping insurance because he would not be able to do anything "if" something were to happen to it in shipping.
One week later my friend gets his computer and asks why there is a huge hole in one side of the box, and if it's supposed to rattle. So after he put the RAM back in it still wouldn't work, but it was running perfectly before I boxed it up.
After being told by shipping company ex that it wasn't their problem, and they would not cover the damage or honor their insurance policy that I paid for, I tried the insurance I also purchased from the chain shipping store.
The owner of the store, pretended that he didn't remember me from last week, and refused to honor his shipping insurance as well. He said call the number on the receipt if I in fact I had ever shipped it from his location. So I called the number and reached their corporate offices and got the same answer. So nobody was going to honor the shipping insurance and reimburse us for the value of the equipment. To make a long story short we never saw the $600.00 and change plus the shipping charges ever.
I learned if you're going to ship something like an expensive computer: Go to the US Post office and do it that way, they honor their insurance unlike some private companies.
