Parcelforce !!!!
Just a bit of info, I thought I'd share.
Just sold my M1 DAC to a buyer in germany.
So started looking around for how to send it. Went to the Parcelforce website and entered all the relevant details. I wanted a tracked service. The only option was Global Priority and it worked out at mid fifty pounds. No way I'm paying that.
So went onto inter parcel.com and entered all the details again. It came back with another Parcel Force service Euro Priority, and even after adding additional insurance it cost £31. A big saving.
I phoned Parcelforce who would not acknowledge the Euro Priority service existed.
On further investigatin, it is a valid service, but only available through 3rd party brokers.
Has a bit of a whiff of RIP OFF about it.
So keen I managed to post the comment twice....you can tell it's a Friday (and it's been such a long week)
No. The £31 is what I paid. So any broker margin is built into that.
Yes they've prob negotiated a good price due to the volumes, but I still can't see why Parcelforce won't offer the service to the public.
I worked for the Royal Mail Group for 20 years. Parcelforce were always the gammy leg.
Yes they've prob negotiated a good price due to the volumes, but I still can't see why Parcelforce won't offer the service to the public.
Because they run a different business model. Tesco mobile is cheaper than O2, yet it uses the exact same network.
Parcelforce+ business model. Now there's a thought.
Fair comment I suspect!!
I sent a marantz PM6003 amp a while back to denmark at around £33 fully insured with parcelforce. Think it was around £55 through parcelforce. Used parcel2go with much the same result as yourself. Fully tracked and got delivered in 2 days. That was with the 3day plus economy service.
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So one is the retail price and the other the wholesale price. Third party broker adds margin to the £31 (and probably still undercuts the ParcelForce price.)
Fairly standard business practice; by definition end users don't get the wholesale price (try asking BT what the Openreach prices are!!) Besides, there are probably minimum volume commitments anyway.
The only issue is that ParcelForce has somehow managed to let its wholesale pricing get onto a website that the end user can see. That was a bit silly.