keystoneman:
I'd go with the $175, just in case.... There are a few parts in there, too, if you're not shipping it stripped. Maybe $250 to cover all the bases? The insurance isn't free, but it's not too expensive.
Some twenty years ago, the former day job had a plant in SC with a PC that I was responsible for up in OH. We had some $800 modems (MNP used to be expensive on them). A modem popped in SC, and a cross-ship was arranged. The dealer never got the dead one. THEN, I found out that the gal who shipped it didn't specify a value, which put about $300 on it at the time.... Ooooops....
El Presidente, btw, upon hearing that I'd bought $1600+ worth of modems dropped a tear-sheet from the Wall Street Journal on my desk. "Why didn't you use these?" $20-ish Commodore modems. I had to try to explain that Commodore modems were barely more than connectors, with the "guts" built into the computer, and that they didn't support MNP "Error Detection", which was a necessity at the time. They were also 300 baud instead of 1200 baud.... (The rest of the hardware mix just couldn't deal with line noise, which is why the Error Detection modems. Otherwise, we'd re-dial constantly....)
Regards,
