Hi Pete.

I've just imported 30 small tins for myself and fellow club members.  I conversed with the Krale rep quite a bit before going ahead trying to sort out a packaging method to avoid the damage I had experienced with my previous order. 

Unfortunately they weren't packed as I'd requested, but they did do a better job than they had before and on this occasion only two tins were damaged.

HOWEVER, the 30 tins were stacked and wrapped in bubble wrap in three lots of ten.  They were then  placed in a standard shipping carton with the remaining space filled with that useless blow-up bubble wrap.  When they arrived here the box was partially open at a taped seam, the box was pretty badly beaten up and was not far off collapsing completely.

SO, the lesson I learned is that 30 small tins is the absolute maximum I'd order again in a shipment as it's a hell of a lot of weight and any sort of shipping packaging is going to get a hell of a hiding trying to contain it.   I'd recommend no more than 20 small tins at a time (500 of .177 or 250 of .22),  I only imported the small tins this time as there’s more mass of pellets in the bigger tins to move around and damage each other.  The tins of the very light 13gr .22 cal JSB's from the previous shipment suffered around 70% damaged - a lot of waste.

Perhaps you could pm me and I'll give you the rep's contact details and you can perhaps sort out a better packaging regime - I have photo's of the damage you could use in your discussions.

I'm after some .177 and .22.

So I paid around $30 NZD per tin landed in my hand. So I don't think you will get free shipping, as I remember if I was to order more and the weight went up, the shipping went to $75 Euro.

Way better value than buying locally unfortunately.

Hi Pete.

Freight on the 30 small tins was 30 Euros although the checkout said 45 prior to actual payment.

My contact is anna@krale.shop   

I've sent her the details relating to packaging of my last shipment but I've yet to here back from her.  Sometimes it can take a few days to get a response.

Mind you I didn't ask, so I got std charges.

So when I was setting up the order my cart was showing 45 euros freight which jumped up to 90 euros as the number of tins grew.  I thought bugger that and started removing tins until it had dropped back to showing 45 again.  That was at roughly 30 small tins which is what I purchased.  During the payment process the shipping dropped back to 30 euros and I did think of going back and adding some more but decided not to push my luck.  I'm glad I didn't as 30 small tins doesn't sound a lot but is actually quite heavy and if I'd ordered 40 as I'd originally intended then I'm pretty sure they would have completely collapsed the cardboard box.  This happened with my first order a while back, the packaging had collapsed by the time it arrived in Germany and had to be sent back to Krale.  They sent me another lot but only after they had received the damaged ones back and this drew the process out considerably.

Buying the small tins is only a little more expensive than the equivalent numbers in the larger tins but they are more resistant to shipping damage in my view.

It's definitely worth ordering them from Krale but you need sufficient numbers to offset the shipping cost without going overboard with the numbers for the reasons explained above.  The main ones I’m bringing in are the JTS Dead Centres as they're not available here and perform as well as, if not better than, the JSBs - and at a significantly lower cost.

JTS $14.01 Euro vs JSB $11.82 Euro  That's for .177 8 grn, 500 count.