Cheap Parcel Delivery Official Discussion

drum_billet

pufferfish wrote: »

I was also far from impressed with the whole PM/Quidco farce with the former trying to blame latter when they had themselves negotiated a deal with the affiliate network which they couldn't sustain/afford.

They haven't even updated the affiliate section of their website which still mentions a commission per order. No doubt they'll correct it when their resident PR person reads this, so here it is for the record (as of 27-Jan)

Lets face it, PM had no incentive to change the wording with quidco, they simply blamed each other, while letting the orders rack up, there are surely lots of unimpressed people out there, what makes the situation bizarre is that they upped the cashback to £2 per order, if they werent happy paying £1 why would they pay £2 unless it was to get even more orders or perhaps i'm being cynical?

Kayster

Bexbox2 wrote: »

Guys can anyone help me please?

Can he put it into two seperate lots rather than cable tie it all together? Then it can go with anyone - BUT - most carriers will not take unwrapped items amd i wouldnt want your unwrapped fire grate demolishing my carefully packed items!

I've sent ugly bits of metal by wrapping them in cloth (old T shirts or jeans) then bandaging them with brown tape all over. Not expensive, not difficult and it protects everyone from your 'orrible item including the driver.

pufferfish_2

drum_billet wrote: »

Lets face it, PM had no incentive to change the wording with quidco, they simply blamed each other, while letting the orders rack up, there are surely lots of unimpressed people out there, what makes the situation bizarre is that they upped the cashback to £2 per order, if they werent happy paying £1 why would they pay £2 unless it was to get even more orders or perhaps i'm being cynical?

I share your view. I think it was just one big publicity stunt by PM to crawl in more customers. I'm sure I was not alone in using PM at that time based on price (i.e. factoring in the £2 commission).

Unfortunately it looks like Quidco backed down, which is great for PM's revenue, but not to good for Quidco's members.

I don't believe Quidco would intentionally mislead its members though - it's not in their interest as they pass on 100% and wouldn't stand to gain from unhappy members raising bucketloads of earnings enquiries.

drum_billet

pufferfish wrote: »

I don't believe Quidco would intentionally mislead its members though - it's not in their interest as they pass on 100% and wouldn't stand to gain from unhappy members raising bucketloads of earnings enquiries.

Indeed, who is the real winner here, from where i'm sitting, only 1.

i know we have a PM rep who regularly chips in here - it would be very interesting to know why the cashback was increased to £2 when there were so many problems with just £1.

Bexbox2

Kayster wrote: »

Can he put it into two seperate lots rather than cable tie it all together? Then it can go with anyone - BUT - most carriers will not take unwrapped items amd i wouldnt want your unwrapped fire grate demolishing my carefully packed items!

I've sent ugly bits of metal by wrapping them in cloth (old T shirts or jeans) then bandaging them with brown tape all over. Not expensive, not difficult and it protects everyone from your 'orrible item including the driver.

Not really as its a meter long fire grate...tricky

Kayster

Bexbox2 wrote: »

Not really as its a meter long fire grate...tricky

The metre long isnt a problem - the weight is. As he was going to cable tie some bits on can they not be sent seperate so reducing the weight? If not i give up!.

Scousefire

Hi Guys....

I recently sold my first item on Ebay, but completely under priced myself on stating the P&P. I am sending the buyer a book which fits into a standard shoebox and will weigh around 6kg.
Like a fool, I stated £3.50 P&P will be enough, when it obviously wont be!

Can anyone suggest suitable parcel delivery who are cheap, but reliable and safe. I looked at Collect+ .....are they any good?

Thanks in advance
Andy

deanos

Scousefire wrote: »

Hi Guys....

I recently sold my first item on Ebay, but completely under priced myself on stating the P&P. I am sending the buyer a book which fits into a standard shoebox and will weigh around 6kg.
Like a fool, I stated £3.50 P&P will be enough, when it obviously wont be!

Can anyone suggest suitable parcel delivery who are cheap, but reliable and safe. I looked at Collect+ .....are they any good?

Thanks in advance
Andy

collect+ are fine, but you need to ask the other person of they dont mind collecting from a shop

Scousefire

deanos wrote: »

collect+ are fine, but you need to ask the other person of they dont mind collecting from a shop

Thanks mate, fingers crossed they should be cool about it.

cyberbob

Scousefire wrote: »

Hi Guys....

I recently sold my first item on Ebay, but completely under priced myself on stating the P&P. I am sending the buyer a book which fits into a standard shoebox and will weigh around 6kg.
Like a fool, I stated £3.50 P&P will be enough, when it obviously wont be!

Can anyone suggest suitable parcel delivery who are cheap, but reliable and safe. I looked at Collect+ .....are they any good?

Thanks in advance
Andy

If you want tracking and Paypal seller protection you will need to get the buyer to add the collect+ address as a Gift address otherwise you will not be sending to the paypal address and therefore not covered.

Also if you didn't state collect + in the listing as a buyer i would be !!!!ed off if you expected me to go and pick it up from somewhere