I appeal to the collective wisdom of GRM to teach me the best methods for shipping tires. I have a set I'd like to get rid of in WA, and someone is interested in purchasing them in FL. What is the best and cheapest way to get them there? Follow-up question: does your suggested method also apply to wheels? I am selling a set of them as well and the market for performance tires and wheels just isn't that big in Spokane.
Thanks in advance!
I've always gotten tires shipped in pairs, with 4 plastic straps and tape holding them together. No box or anything. If that's good enough for the online retailers, good enough for me.
Rims on their own, find a box big enough. See if the local wheel place has any to spare. I'd suggest you insure each box for the value of the whole set. An incomplete set is worthless 9/10 times.
Rims with tires mounted are trickier, I've never done this but if you do em in pairs, have them face to face with cardboard in between, straps and tape/plastic wrap. Air in the tires so the tires are the padding. Maybe cardboard on the outter faces of the wheel as well.
Prices... seem to run about $20 a tire. $30ish a wheel without tire if we're talking about 18's last time I shipped any. If you or work have a corporate account or something at UPS you could have it shipped through there and that pretty much halves the cost.
that is about how I do to..
DuctTape&Bondo wrote: I've always gotten tires shipped in pairs, with 4 plastic straps and tape holding them together. No box or anything. If that's good enough for the online retailers, good enough for me.
That is what I thought but UPS has an upcharge for items not boxed/easily stackable so it cost a fair bit more for me to ship them that way last time I did. 
i've had tires shipped strapped together in pairs, but the last set for the fiancee's car (215/18) came all four strapped together with the label/packing slip stuck to one of the tires.
You couldn't possibly find somebody a bit farther from home to sell to, eh?
Check Greyhound. I know a guy who uses them a lot. If its not time sensitive, that might work.
Do the buyers live downhill from you?
So, FWIW, I shipped them in two unboxed pairs through UPS at $100/pair 
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