From Antwerpen, Belgium to Buenos Aires, Argentina - October, 2009

Route
Shipment From: 
Antwerpen, Belgium
Shipment To: 
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Shipper details
Contact person name: 
Mafra
Company name: 
Grimaldi
Contact details: 

Mafra advertises regularly on this forum

Travellers Impressions of the shipper
Recommended?: 
No
Rating: 
3/5 - Average
Information about this Shipment
Shipping Method: 
Ro-Ro
Shipping date: 
October, 2009
Cost Paid at Start (US $): 
3500 USD
Comments: 

I shared a container with a german lady from Antwerpen to Buenos Aires. Mafra tours, advertising on this website, was offering a promotion at 899 Euros for a container. He is an agent for Grimaldi ro/ro services.

Once in Anwerpen, stuffing costs were 350 Euros, so the total cost was 1250 Euros/1800 USD for the european part.

Once in Buenos Aires, we were shown by Grimaldi a 1680 USD bill to get the motorcycles out. 1360 USD for the vehicules and 320 USD for an agent. We were willing to do the paperwork by ourselves, but Grimaldi asked for a 5000 USD warranty in CASH to let us do it on our own, so we were pretty much forced to buy the agent services.

One month later, following the adventures of a canadian couple, we found out we paid twice as much they did. They paid a total of 850 USD and were not asked for a cash warranty.

Total bill for us : 3500 USD. It could have cost 2700 USD, were we left the option to do the papers ourselves. We felt we were treated like milk cows and were lied to in Buenos Aires.



 

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