Hi Jack , Nice offer to cover the shipping, speaking for myself i would have come and picked up in person as its ( only ) an hour and half up the road ( could have been a nice day out ), i think the problem is that regardless of that ( which i wasn't going to build in cost wise ) when you add up the individual shipping and misc bits and pieces for whoever to organize and do it , the cost in time and postage involved makes it a bit of a non-starter.
Nothing can be done about that , just the way it is. Feel free to PM if required.