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Move Anything Anywhere. FREE Delivery Quotes - AnyVan.com. A typical price that I was quoted was about £125 to transport a Panasonic 65ST50 plasma from Manchester to Edinburgh, with £10,000 worth of insurance, with about a week's notice - it gets more expensive if you book with less notice. No, they won't box the TV for you, they do expect it to be in a suitable box. However, if you don't have a suitable box, not all is lost. I paid each of the sellers of the four televisions an extra £25 for them to buy a duvet and bubble wrap to cover the television with, so it was safe enough. This is what one of the Panasonic 65ST50s looked like initially:
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And now after a layer of bubble wrap, looking from the rear this time:
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And then finally with a duvet around everything:
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Well worth the extra £25 I paid for the bubble wrap and duvet, I thought. This final picture is now suitable to be collected by AnyVan. By the way, I got quotes from AnyVan for a two-person collection. With televisions of 60 inches and greater, that's really too big to be collected by one person. If you choose a single-person collection, then it's cheaper, but then you would be expected to help the driver carry it out to the van, and just in case something goes wrong I wanted no part of it, hence I wanted the two-person collection. Typically, if a two-person collection costs about £125, then a single-person collection would be about £90, so you would save yourself some money, but I like peace of mind!
By the way, I forgot to congratulate you on your new Samsung PS64D8500 plasma. I used to have a Samsung PS64D800 television, but yours is two generations newer, and better. It is without a doubt the brightest plasma television that was ever made, and in my view it ranks alongside the Panasonic 65VT65, Panasonic 60ZT65 and Pioneer Kuro 600M or 600A as the best plasma televisions that were ever made. In case you've not seen it, review here
Samsung PS64F8500 review - Televisions and here
Samsung PS64F8500 (F8500) Plasma TV Review and here
Samsung PS64F8500 Review | Trusted Reviews.
Enjoy!