Cheap Parcel Delivery Official Discussion

jordanryan

matchsticks-on-toast wrote: »

Ok so i used parcelkings today,Why you might say but £5 for next day cannot be passed up,at least worth a try anyway.
and so far so good, order placed at 9.08 label emailed to me at 9.10.
UPS collected the parcel. i will let everyone know if the parcel gets delivered.

Hi, please do let us know. If it's in UPS hands now you should have no worries :j

stu68

I got ripped off by Parcelbee and parcelkings looks very much like Parcelbee reborn??? I would be very careful in using them unless your 100% sure its not as if it is the same bloke he will give you a pretty good service for a couple of months and then just disappear leaving you out of pocket.

jordanryan

stu68 wrote: »

I got ripped off by Parcelbee and parcelkings looks very much like Parcelbee reborn??? I would be very careful in using them unless your 100% sure its not as if it is the same bloke he will give you a pretty good service for a couple of months and then just disappear leaving you out of pocket.

I don't think it is the same person. Parcel King was running at the same time Parcel Bee was as far as I'm aware.

Parcel King is the same as Parcels for Business which are both Logistics for Business Ltd who are in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

matchsticks-on-toast

They are not the same company,one is www.parcelkings.co.uk ie pktradingltd and one is www.parcelking.co.uk ie Logistics for Business Ltd.
While i do see and agree that a lot of parcelkings website is poor and has been copied from other websites, i dont see how i will lose money ie say i use interparcel i would be paying £2.50 more for each parcel, i only send one parcel per day , so the most i would ever lose is £5.00 , but i would only have to have two orders placed and collected and delivered to have not lost a penny if they went under, so i am sure you can see my point, but untill tomorrow i wont even know if ups deliver my parcel, so i wont comment again untill then.

jordanryan

Sorry matchsticks-on-toast

I got Parcel King and Parcels Kings mixed up. So you sent it with Parcel Kings which was UPS. It does look very similar to the ParcelBee old site. Did you get a choice which carrier collected or did you just book and UPS turned up?

matchsticks-on-toast

jordanryan wrote: »

Sorry matchsticks-on-toast

I got Parcel King and Parcels Kings mixed up. So you sent it with Parcel Kings which was UPS. It does look very similar to the ParcelBee old site. Did you get a choice which carrier collected or did you just book and UPS turned up?

Hi, dont know about parcelbee only what i read on here, did not get a choice as to who collected the parcel , after payment, got redirected to a page that told me my label had been emailed to me and that ups would be collecting my parcel & tracking info ect.

pufferfish_2

matchsticks-on-toast wrote: »

i don't see how i will lose money

If your parcels have zero value, then yes, I agree.
Remember that UPS (or whoever their current carrier is) have the right to withhold delivery of your consignments until they can recoup the value of the outstanding invoice. Just read the postings from a few months back when PB went tits up.

Nobody knows when the bubble will burst (except ParcelKings).

IMHO, You're playing Russian Roulette and supporting a business with shady ethics.

matchsticks-on-toast

Update on parcelkings.

Ups delivered the parcel at 13.01 today.

Strapped

pufferfish wrote: »

If your parcels have zero value, then yes, I agree.
Remember that UPS (or whoever their current carrier is) have the right to withhold delivery of your consignments until they can recoup the value of the outstanding invoice. Just read the postings from a few months back when PB went tits up.

Nobody knows when the bubble will burst (except ParcelKings).

IMHO, You're playing Russian Roulette and supporting a business with shady ethics.

Yep, it's not if, but when, you will get burnt. Having said that, I reckon a lot of people will take the risk.


ETA: I note that their address is Quality Court in WC2A which looks like it could be a virtual office. Definite moonlight flit potential imo.

custardy

Strapped wrote: »

Yep, it's not if, but when, you will get burnt. Having said that, I reckon a lot of people will take the risk.


ETA: I note that their address is Quality Court in WC2A which looks like it could be a virtual office. Definite moonlight flit potential imo.

always the same,soon we will get the crying posts about lost money and held packages

i sent a a package the other day for £8 with DHL
i wont say the company or else i will be working for them
but its an established one