Bluearan rant

mini-mad wrote: That's what should happen... but even fuel c9mpanies get greedy and hold out and make you pay through the nose even wen I drops down to 50 notes a barrel again (or there abouts) ..if we stopped pissing about in the middle East we wouldn't be here.

  

 ^^This, although I don't think this is the thread on which to get started on the subject!

Jack_The_Ripper wrote: It might just be Blue Aran ripping customers off with postage, Amazon does the same you have to order more than £20 worth of goods to get free delivery and a lot of the time if you buy things that are small the postage can cost as much or sometimes more than the item costs itself. I was going to order a  quick charge 3.0 charging cable earlier this year which is £6.99 and yet postage was £8.99 so I didn't bother. That's Amazon sellers for you, a lot of them want to make a profit on items they sell and a huge profit margin on postage. A little 1.5 metre cable could be put in a jiffy bag and posted to me for as little as £2.

It's probably more likely that by keeping the item price as low as possible they hit the top of the sales results vs competitors, some people don't notice the extra postage at checkout and some might not even care. Most of course do, but it is a tactic aiming at gaming the people who don't I would guess.

levyte357- wrote: snowflake wrote: please everyone use Royal Mail. being able to collect from a delivery office nearby is much better than waiting in all day for them to turn up. the shit service from every other courier is just not worth the few quid you might save. another great disaster of de-regulation and privatisation. Absolutely no chance of me using Royal Frail/ParcelFarce again !!! UPS is my fav courier for last 10 years. DPD lost a genuine 18" Turbosound driver, first time I used them.

  

 + 1 for UPS, never had a problem with them either.
 
 And yes, DPD are a pile of inept muppets, they managed to lose a pair of drivers I bought on ebay, another pair I bought to be delivered via them arrived with one of the magnets smashed clean off the chassis despite being well packed. Yodel aren't much better, I bought an oak tv stand, so not exactly a small item, and they managed to lose that, to be fair though it did then turn up unexpectedly over a week late....


Edited by njw - 16 June 2018 at 10:22pm

Just had a package via DPD, no issues. That was the 18 quid for 30 kilos UK to Europe I mentioned. Hard to argue with a price like that, even if it's not the most reliable.

Edited by Hemisphere - 17 June 2018 at 11:19am

Or just bad luck, or (gasp) an error on your part perhaps?

I used to rave about UPS, close on 2000 parcels over 10 years and never a serious problem...... Till  the day I sent 4 grills to someone. They arrived on time, no damage, job done. Then 2 weeks later they sent a bill (via Interparcel) for 50 quid. They said the parcel was oversize. They claimed it was 1.3m x 1.1m x 17cm.  From memory is was about 70cm x 50cm  x 2cm.