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4.1 kg is just a tad too heavy for me. Good luck with the sale.

What is the exact weight please?

Pfff the bathroom scales juist saved me some money

I would very much like to know the exact weight please?

Thanks @kodiakblair, I'll take a deeper look into it later but for what I saw just now checking quickly is that the provided link is for businesses (airfreight?) only. And for sending parcels as a private person the max size is one meter again.

Hi @kodiakblair, Have you by any chance spoken to them already ?

@kodiakblair Yes this is not what I expected either, strange and differing regulations everywhere. @alyctes I could unscrew the neck but for now I just want to find out if it would at all be possible to just send a bass in it's case or a box.

@kodiakblair Just spend almost an hour on the phone again with GLS. This time I spoke to someone who was very helpful and willing to try to work everything out. After 20 minutes she had figured it out and told me it was no problem for GLS to send the bass for me. But within a few minutes she called me back saying sorry, there had been a misunderstanding and once again I was told it couldn't be done. We then again went through the whole website to check because there is mention of different sizes on different pages. She checked with a colleague, a floormanager, a manager, someone from the sales department plus the head of the parcelshops (where I would have to bring the bass to be sent abroad) and in the end the verdict was that it couldn't be done. And they couldn't offer me another solution either, if you have a company and if you are a client of GLS then you can send bigger parcels, otherwise it's not possible. I just don't get it and I'm very tired of it right now. Maybe next week I'll try again, other things to do now.

@kodiakblair Thanks for checking and thinking along. I had GLS on the phone and they told me no can do. I don't have a business/company so I have to send as a private person, only way to do it is by bringing the parcel to a nearby parcelshop. Rules are that they don't accept packages larger than 150cm combined length plus width, so a cardboard box from another bass I had send to me that is 128cm long and 50cm wide is a no go. I'm baffled because I hear of people sending stuff up an down Europe but I just can't get any of the couriers agreeing on accepting my parcel. I'll keep checking and making phonecalls, if there is news I'll report it here.

My main problem is that the quotes I find are around 40/50 euro but all companies have a policy that with international shipping the maximum length may not exceed 100cm. I'm trying to send a bass from the Netherlands to Croatia and I'm really having a hard time finding a suitable courier. I tried GLS, DPD, Post NL and a few more and they all said the same and where kinda unhelpful in finding a solution. So could you please enlighten me how on earth are you guys sending basses in their cases or boxes abroad?