fridge transport

[Coligny]

a friend of mine wants to buy a fridge on yahoo auction and have it delivered. what company would be the best / cheapestest for this kind of jobs ?
For me it seems a little... too much hassle for the worth... but i'm short on data and maybe it could be a good deal in the end... I don't think our usual suspects would be financially realistic... she's near Osaka. Don't know where from she will end up buying said fridge...

[wuchan]

[omae mona]

[wuchan]

[Coligny]

Thanks both... I personnally used only Yamato france->japan pricey but incredibul service.
When I moved Nagoya->Toyohashi it was a 'all hell break loose' situation where I had to find a solution in 1 afternoon... The panda guys came first... basically told them 'see that shit ? you take as is, you bring there and I don't give a crap whatever gets broken' They agreed... And even gave me a kilo of rice for omyage...
Later the same day the welcome basket guy came told him upfront what panda offered and I already choosed them. He insisted for more than an hour... while providing less (I had to empty all furniture drawers and put in boxes) for more money... after an hour he was still not leaving, so I let him alone in the living room...


The panda guys came few days later with 2 trucks (one gigantic tri-axle beast and one medium course delivery truck) and it was done perfectly without having to remove anything from the drawers...
Nowadays with the quantity of junk we have... it would cost less to build a railway first than to rent a fleet of trucks...

[dimwit]

Sigh. This reminds me of an old story from the days in which I was a relative newbie in Japan.

At the school where I was working, I befriended a guy who had just arrived. He invited all the other teachers to a party at his house and I was amazed by the amount of furnishings that he possesed; a wide screen TV, a fully functioning microwave/range and other sundry goods. When asked about it he said that he picked them up from the 'shop'.

A few days later, he told me that he was going to the shop to pick a full sized refrigerator and asked me whether I would help. Intrigued, I said yes, and later that night I found myself outside a electronics store which shut down for the night. Outside, there were all sorts of appliances big and small that I now assume had been traded in. (Whether the store planned to garbage them or sell them to a second hand shop, I haven't a clue.) My friend had his eyes set on a massive fridge which presented a teensy little problem -how the hell were we going to get this thing the 1.5 km back to his house? Turns out he had a bicycle with a rack on the back which would do a Vietnam duck trader proud - it was about a meter wide. Our job was to keep the thing balanced on the rack while he rode it back to his house. One of the wonderful things about Japanese neighborhoods is that at 10:00 at night the only people you are likely to encounter are drunken salaryman who are well beyond the point of distinguishing fantasy and reality. So three foreigners carrying an oversized fridge on the back on a bicycle resulted in no one knowing or caring.

Whether this method of 'delivery' is still usable even in Shikoku is doubtful but hell it would be comical to watch someone try.

[Coligny]

These days the number of old CRT TV rotting in front or in the back of electronic shop is insane... that might be the japanese equivalent of rednecks camaros sitting on block in the frontyard...

YAY for japanese recycling and respect of the environement... pollution stay the same and everybody is forced to live like a pack rat...

[FG Lurker]

My friend had his eyes set on a massive fridge which presented a teensy little problem -how the hell were we going to get this thing the 1.5 km back to his house? Turns out he had a bicycle with a rack on the back which would do a Vietnam duck trader proud - it was about a meter wide. Our job was to keep the thing balanced on the rack while he rode it back to his house. One of the wonderful things about Japanese neighborhoods is that at 10:00 at night the only people you are likely to encounter are drunken salaryman who are well beyond the point of distinguishing fantasy and reality. So three foreigners carrying an oversized fridge on the back on a bicycle resulted in no one knowing or caring.

The closest story I have to something like this was me carrying a full sized solid wood desk on a subway train late at night. This wasn't some flat-pack item, this was a complete (and decent sized) desk. I'd been given it for free but needed to transport it across Osaka to my apartment. The subway seemed the logical choice at the time -- I'd been in Japan for ~2 weeks.

[davai-davai IV]

Ahhhhh, the joy of the early years: collecting abandoned TVs and VCRs and fax machines, then bringing back to the same spot those impossible to fix and sell.