It will cost around $5,000-$7,000 for a shipping container from the U.S. to India. This includes loading, unloading, insurance and around $1,000 for customs duty.<\/p>\n
What I concluded is that unless you can make up that cost in saving, it is not worth it to ship a container. We have purchased a lot of new furniture, two big HDTVs (including a 55″ 3D HDTV), a music systems (including 7.1 speakers), and many other items. We thought a lot about not \u00a0shipping a container, but once we decided that it would be worth it, we made a list of what we would need to take versus what we would buy once back in India. By doing this, we were able to save $3,000-$4,000 in electronics alone when compared to the cost of buying them in India.<\/p>\n
We had been in the U.S. for 12 years so instead of taking our old furniture from U.S., \u00a0we bought almost all new furniture including 4 Italian leather sofas, queen and king size bed, mattresses, dresser, night stands, center tables, computer table, entertainment center etc. \u00a0We are going to live in Indore, and it would have been possible to have gotten the furniture we wanted in the big cities, but it would have been a lot of hassle. We would have had to see in which big city we could buy our furniture, then where in that city to buy our furniture, and then we probably would not have been able to find what we wanted. I am pretty sure that the deal we got from Macy’s in the U.S. was better than any deal we could have found in India. In addition, already having the furniture would save us a lot of time and hassle, not to mention that we had gotten what we wanted and had grown accustomed to it too.<\/p>\n
Here are the main item we shipped in our container:<\/p>\n
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1. 55″ Samsung 3D HDTV<\/a><\/p>\n 2. 40″ Samsung HDTV<\/p>\n 3. Onkyo TX-NR808 Home Theater Receiver<\/a><\/p>\n 4. 7.1 Speakers ( 2 Polk II Monitor70<\/a>, 1 Polk CS <\/a>2, 1 BIC 12″ subwoofer<\/a> and 4 BOSE 161 speakers<\/a>)<\/p>\n 5. 1 New Lenovo laptop and 2 Dell netbooks<\/p>\n 6. 4 2000 watts transformers<\/a> and 1 3000 watts step up\/down transformer<\/a><\/p>\n 7. Toys and cloths for our 2 year-old son<\/p>\n 8. PS3 and Xbox 360 with lots of games<\/p>\n 9. Dinnerware (for formal and daily use)<\/p>\n 10. Wireless security systems<\/a><\/p>\n 11. HP wireless printer<\/p>\n 12. 4-5 beds in a bag<\/p>\n 13. Picture frames from michaels<\/p>\n 14. Sony hi-fi shelf system<\/a><\/p>\n 15.\u00a0Exercise\/boot camp DVDS<\/p>\n 16. Speaker cables, ethernet cables, bannana plugs, etc from monoprice.com<\/p>\n 17 Shark steam pocket mop<\/a><\/p>\n 18. Rice Cooker, Cusinart griddle<\/a>, KitchenAid oven<\/p>\n 19. 2-3 digital picture frames<\/p>\n 20. Bathroom and cleaning supplies for a few months<\/p>\n 21. Professional fabric steamer from costco<\/p>\n 22. 2 Area rugs from Costco<\/p>\n 23. \u00a0Above-mentioned furniture<\/p>\n 24. 2 wireless N routers, one to be used as a wireless bridge<\/p>\n 25. 2 Spike protectors<\/a><\/p>\n