Get ready, you'll have to get the refrigerator off the truck which likely will not have a lift.

We bought a double oven, over 400 lbs, it was tough but we got it off using the dolly. We were lucky we never ended up paying the freight - even though our buyer had a good rating, they were never on ebay again after our transaction.

Have you won your item yet?

No, pugger, not yet. I haven't even bid yet. Actually I'm watching quite a few--mostly Buy It Nows. But they either say we will deliver to your curb or to a freight (Fed Ex) spot and you can pick up. To your curb service isn't so bad when it's a set of dishdrawers or something. It's those HUGE items that have me worried.

We bought our oven on Ebay, and it was shipped from Pennsylvania to a FedEx freight dock in Calif. ($320 including insurance) They wanted another $125 for home delivery, and as already mentioned, it's curb service only. My dh picked ours up, they loaded it into his pick-up with a fork lift. Another option might be to contact a local appliance place and pay to have your item picked up from FedEx dock and delivered/installed for you.

Sdionnemoore,

Getting the local appliance store to move the big item from the FED-EX location to yours is a good suggestion. Another, provided you have a couple of fairly strong guys who can be careful, is to rent an appliance cart or refrigerator cart at your local rental place. Actually, empty refrigerators should not be all that heavy. Unless you're getting one of those monsters that is two full-size doors or more in width.

Jim Henry

Thanks all! Great idea about the asking our local appliance store to p/u and deliver.

I hate to be a skeptic, but won't the local appliance store be po'ed that you bought from a competitor off the internet? I'd go with a more neutral party-- maybe a moving company-- or sometimes there are people that advertise in craigslist to help you move things? good luck! I hope you tell us what you decide.

The appliance stores may not even use their own employees to do delivery/install. There is an appliance repair company in our town that does the installs for some of the smaller appliance stores.

For what it's worth, we bought most of our appliances off the internet WITH THE EXCEPTION OF the refrigerator.

Our GC, who did not care where we got anything, warned against it, saying that the fewer times and the shortest distance a refrigerator is moved, the better it will operate and the longer its life will be.

We got a SubZero and I by golly want that thing to last a l-o-n-g time. We bought it locally.

He cautions people not to even move a fridge from house to house. Too easy to mess it up, I guess.