Poles Apart
Well-known member
- Messages
- 1,672
- Location
- Birmingham
Got a broken door mirror glass on the Ciroen it's £8.60 on the internet and £5 Post Office 48 hour delivery charge fuming.
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: this_feature_currently_requires_accessing_site_using_safari
do you have a picture of the connector dan paton?Yeah I feel your pain. I've been looking for a connector for an aquatec pump . Around £2 for the part and around £6 for delivery. Absolute rip off for something that weighs practically nothing.
Sent using the Window Cleaning Forums app
Ask them to do that then mateMarkyboy I understand a profit has to be made but it could be put in a Jiffy bag and delivered via Royal Mail for less than £2.
Sent using the Window Cleaning Forums app
Couldn't agree more mate. A fiver is a bargain in my opinion.We all run businesses so we should understand how it works more than anyone. I can add 50quid to a bill depending on how I feel that particular day. That business has probably taken the decision to have a minimum charge as they don't want to spend all day paying packers to put 1 grommet in to a jiffy bag, add a shipping label, and dispatch it out just for a few pence profit. Minimum charges like that also encourage people to group up their purchases and buy more each time. It's just business, and I would do exactly the same if I ran a mail order company.
£5 Post Office 48 hour delivery charge
around £6 for delivery
Yeah, postage costs are a total disgrace, these companies should be ashamed of themselves, how dare they charge! not like it costs them anything for the packaging materials, or for the staff member to package the item, or for someone to take it to the post office (or is some cases have it collected) Not like the courier company has to pay for diesel and truck costs to collect the item, or the cost of the staff to man the sorting hub, nor for the big rigs and drivers that then move them around to the relevant depot to you, forget the van costs and drivers wages coming out to deliver the item to you in the comfort of your own home or office and damn them all to hell if they dare to imagine they should be allowed to make a profit on running a business!!delivered via Royal Mail for less than £2
Its also easy to take the work of these people for granted. It struck me last week. We order something from Gardiners in St Austell and its in Middlesbrough the next morning. When this happens every time we start to expect it. It becomes the new norm.Yeah, postage costs are a total disgrace, these companies should be ashamed of themselves, how dare they charge! not like it costs them anything for the packaging materials, or for the staff member to package the item, or for someone to take it to the post office (or is some cases have it collected) Not like the courier company has to pay for diesel and truck costs to collect the item, or the cost of the staff to man the sorting hub, nor for the big rigs and drivers that then move them around to the relevant depot to you, forget the van costs and drivers wages coming out to deliver the item to you in the comfort of your own home or office and damn them all to hell if they dare to imagine they should be allowed to make a profit on running a business!!
Not a bad price £13.60 inc postage & packing probably a good bit cheaper than main dealer prices or around the same as a after market glass from your local motor factors and you would have to go and collect it for that i used to have a breakers yard and have dispatched thousands of parcels and small packages over the years every bit of it costs and the seller of this item knows this hence the charge printing,paper,ink,docs enclosed wallets,complements slips,return address label,bubble wrap,void fill boxes,pallets,packing tape, fragile labels,mailing sacks,jiffy bags,labor time and thats before it goes out the door then there are the couriers fees on top of that any profit made by the seller off of postage on this item would amount to penceGot a broken door mirror glass on the Ciroen it's £8.60 on the internet and £5 Post Office 48 hour delivery charge fuming.
So what your saying is then it's a scWe all run businesses so we should understand how it works more than anyone. I can add 50quid to a bill depending on how I feel that particular day. That business has probably taken the decision to have a minimum charge as they don't want to spend all day paying packers to put 1 grommet in to a jiffy bag, add a shipping label, and dispatch it out just for a few pence profit. Minimum charges like that also encourage people to group up their purchases and buy more each time. It's just business, and I would do exactly the same if I ran a mail order company.