Um, wonder how all these American, Mexican, Japanese, Korean basses get to Britain. Must be a service station in the middle of the Atlantic.
As a seller, I expect to put my back into it and thus offer courier and spend the time boxing up.
As a buyer, I will now travel up to 100 miles 9previously a lot further than that).
As a buyer I don't want to spend a day doing it BECAUSE THE SELLER CAN'T BE ARSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If properly packaged in a hard case there should very rarely be a problem, so stop making excuses, it's because you can't be arsed.
Fair enough, gear tart that I am I will always find a new toy to play with, just won't be yours.