Buying in the US

[vricardo]

Hi, a friend of mine is looking for a car in the US to ship to Europe and I thought of asking a few questions here:

- Has anyone done that?
- What kind of costs are involved in the operation?
- Is it better/easier to buy the car from a US state that's near the coastline or it makes no difference?
- Do you know any companies that would take care of picking up the car from the seller and deliver it in Portugal?

Thank's in advance!

[500gls]

Hi ,
I live in Holland and have done it 3 times, 2 times great ,one time I got scammed.

over land the transportations is up to 1000 dollar and shipping is about 950 , don't know if these prices have gone up last 1/2 year.

Schumacher is a good shipping company and they have a service that is called escrow, the shipper that comes to collect the car pays the owner directly your money in exchange of the car.
I didn't do this last time and the owner flew with the money and I ended up with no car and a loss of 24k dollars !!

pm me for more info if you want.

thanks,

Bas

[Gytis Kupinas]

All that you asked is my bussiness.
I do all the services you are inquering about.

What 500GLS said is true. Have to find honest person to deal with, but that will cost extra- you know, noone want to make runarounds just for fun of running But at same time - no scams.

[fishman7]

I have worked with idgaf27 before and he is a stand up guy, he can help you and can be trusted.

[Zithlord]

I have shipped 5 cars from both east and west coast US, to Norway via Bremerhaven(Germany) I have shipped with www.jetcarrier.no, the CEO is a member of this board, and they have a office and agent in the US(NJ). Price about 1000+ a few hundred to get it to the harbor. I have shipped with RoRO, not container. I have been very pleased every time. Mostly bought cars from Pelican or members of this board with reputation. Lastly I bought my 997 from Autokennel(board member), a very nice experience, I highly recommend them. I had one incident with a fire in Bremerhaven, but no one was to blame, and the car was not damaged except a lot of cleaning.

John