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Nov 11

Car Shipping Tips

With the cold winter months approaching quickly so many people, especially senior citizens, are preparing to relocate to a location with warm weather to avoid the harsh winter mothers back at home. If you are a senior that does not want to just stay put the entire time that you are away than you should considering taking your car along with you.  A great method of relocating your car to your winter location is by means of an car shipping company. An auto transport is a service that ships you car door to door.  There are a couple of things to keep in mind when using this method.

  1. 1. Advance Booking

As soon as you know when you will be traveling, arrange with the auto transport company the dates for pickup and drop off of your cars.  More advance notice you give them, the more choice dates will be available. During the heavy traveling seasons, car shipping companies will be increasingly busy as well.  Therefore, you will want to book in advance to ensure that convenient dates are available for you.

 

  1. 2. Open vs. Enclosed Auto Transport Carriers

Many companies offer two methods of car shipping.  The choices are either with an open auto transport carrier or an enclosed auto transport carrier.  An open transport carrier is the most popular method of transport.  An open carrier is the trucks that you see transporting new vehicles to their dealerships.  These trucks can carry eight to ten vehicles at once opposed to closed vehicle transported which can carry much fewer cars at once.  Therefore using an open transport carrier will be more economical.  This method is safe and efficient making it the option of choice for most.  An enclosed auto transport carrier is mainly used when the car that is being transported is an oversized vehicle or a very high end car or a classic model car.

 

  1. 3. Pickup and Drop off Locations

Another option that will be presented to you will be whether you would like door to door pickup and deliver or delivery at a more central location. Most often door to door pickup and delivery will be included in the package.  However if you leave in a very rural area, that is hard to get to, you may be best off finding a more suitable and convenient location instead of incurring additional charges.  Also, if you live in a private community or on a block that does not allow for commercial vehicles to pass through, you will want to arrange for the driver to meet you at central location such as a large parking lot close to you.

 

  1. 4. Preparing your Car

Before sending off your car you should take measures to prepare your car for the transport.  Fill your cars gas tank until it is a quarter of the way full. This will leave you with enough gas to load the car on and off the truck.  You don’t want to car filled with gas all the way as if your car weighs to much you will incur extra charges.  Also, make sure to inspect your care and take picture prior to sending your car off. This way you will be able to ensure that the car was handed back to you exactly the way you left it.  Take out of your car any valuable items.  Your car is insured by the transport company but not the items that are in it.

With all of these suggestion listed taken into consideration, you will be able to make using an auto transport easy.  More importantly, having your car with you for the length of your stay, will give you peace of mind and make you trip even more enjoyable than ever before

 

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2
Nov 11

Trading In Your Gold For Cash

For those looking for some extra cash, a great and easy road to take would be to sell gold for cash.  In spite of the bad economy the value of gold has soared, therefore now is a great time to trade in your gold for cash.

Start by putting together the jewelry that you would like to sell. Look through your attic, your junk drawer and jewelry box to come up with as much gold as possible.  You need not sell only jewelry that is in top condition. Gold buyers will be happy to buy virtually anything made of any precious metals.  Be it gold, silver or platinum; if it is precious they will take it. You can sell them tangled chain necklaces, broken bracelets, half sets of earrings or even your old coin collection.  Trust me you will be surprised at how much gold you have lying around the house.  Over the years you may have amassed quite a collection.  So if you are no longer wearing it, why let it sit and collect dust when you could have cash in your hands instead.

sell gold for cash

Before you go ahead and trade in your gold, you will want to make sure that you are an educated customer.  This is a onetime opportunity, so you will want to make sure that you get the most for your money.  Do some home work online and fine a couple of reputable gold buyers.  Then start with one of them and send them your gold.  Many of the buyers will send you an insured package to ship your jewelry in free of charge.  Have them give you a quote and then ship the jewelry back to you. Then go ahead and mail out your jewelry to another buyer.  Do this a couple of times until you have a few quotes in your hands.  I can assure you, that you will be happy you went through the effort in doing this as you will see right away how the quotes will vary.  Obviously you will want to send your jewelry to the one that is offering you highest payout.

One more factor that you should realize is that the actual cash that you will receive for your gold will be based upon the value of the gold the day that it is sold.  Although the value of gold is really high now, it does fluctuate from day to day.  So make sure that the day that you sell the gold is not the day that the value of gold is on a downturn.  You may want ask for advice from someone that is a bit of an expert on these trends to advise you on the opportune time to trade your gold in. With just a little bit of research and some effort on your part you will be able to achieve the highest payout possible for your gold. Once you sell you gold you will have cash in your hands within days.