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Travelling with an Xbox
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Sup people.
Basically, in August I'll be flying out to Australia for a year, and as I'll be moving into a flat, I'd like to take some of my home comforts with me. One of them being my Xbox 360.
I'm worried about putting my Xbox in my luggage because I know hnow shit they treat the bags, and I also know how fragile Xbox 360's can be. Do you reckon I'd be able to take it in my hand luggage? I mean, people take laptops don't they?
I'm thinking about doing that, but I'm still worried about it breaking or that it just gets annoying carrying that around.
How much do you think it would cost to have it sent over in a box labelled as fragile, and how would I go about doing that?
Cheers.
Basically, in August I'll be flying out to Australia for a year, and as I'll be moving into a flat, I'd like to take some of my home comforts with me. One of them being my Xbox 360.
I'm worried about putting my Xbox in my luggage because I know hnow shit they treat the bags, and I also know how fragile Xbox 360's can be. Do you reckon I'd be able to take it in my hand luggage? I mean, people take laptops don't they?
I'm thinking about doing that, but I'm still worried about it breaking or that it just gets annoying carrying that around.
How much do you think it would cost to have it sent over in a box labelled as fragile, and how would I go about doing that?
Cheers.
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What I'd suggest would be to look at luggage designed to carry musical equipment - this kind of shit - https://www.audiolinks.com/tek9/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=jqgmqnk8 (though sure you could get something cheaper and better suited).
Then look into some from for the inside that you can cut into the right shape to hold everything firmly in place.
It's going to be so much easier and cheaper to take it yourself than sending it seperately - bear in mind that if you send it it'll just be treated exactly the same way as if you took it with you, so you'll still need to spend a load on packing it properly.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Powerplay-360-Metal-Case-Xbox/dp/B000Q6D4QK/ref=pd_sbs_ce_4
Yes, I agree with the musical instrument packaging. However, I've hade some dodgy experiences with that. One time when we were attending a brass band competition, we all checked our instruments in as special care packages in special wrapping. As we got onboard the plane we saw the crew loading the plane on the ground outside, and were a bit shocked to see that they threw the boxes around like any other luggage! So much for "special care". So while this approach seems good, it's all about how the luggage workers do their job in the end.
I'd put it in my hand luggage, where you have control of it.
6 day transport service from DHL would be £200 - you'd have to check for longer shipping options for cheaper solutions (due to the box size, even without games, you're looking at an xxl package)
To put that in context the Sydnet Gumtree has someone selling their xbox 360 (one week old) for 360 australian dollars (190 pounds) so it'd be easier to just buy a new one there...
Alternatively i guess it might be cheaper - to sell the one you have in the UK and then buy a newish one from Ebay when you get to OZ and just take the games.
38.1 x 38.1 x 14 cm ; 7 Kg
however as others said it might be easier buying one out there, remember there Power/voltage differences in appliances and even the Reigon codes for games are different i believe.
Unless M$ has put some extra filter, which isn't unlikely.
It's not going to be ideal but atm I'm FUCKING skint, can't really afford any of the other stuff.
If that's 7kg, I should be able to take like a tooth brush, tooth paste, deodorant, a phone charger and a few books aswell right?
Should be fine, DVD's won't play but as far as I'm away games are just encoded as either PAL or NTSC not with the full DVD region coding. Think old xbox games did have region codes, but not Xbox 360. Most obvious sign is that rips on P2P sites don't mention regions just PAL or NTSC/USA
Liquid allowance on hand luggage too remember!
Yeah I've already looked into it, it'll work fine. It sucks about the DVD's though, I had to watch them on a laptop last time I was there.
I also wanted to get my little TV sent over, cos I want my xbox in our room (it's a shared flat and I don't wanna stop people watching TV to feed my addiction to GTA or something) but apparantly the sound won't work. Looks like I'm buying one out there!
oh, you said you're skint....