Screwfix free delivery "trick"

[Ed Sirett]

Very true, but... the interest they are paying is excellent it waives £5.00 on every small order. As someone who makes an average of more than one order a week I would be far happier buying only the stuff I need when I need it. At the moment I'm having to keep series of wish lists and also maintain a larger stock of some goods just to help make the £50 threshold.

I've just tried it and I got a reel of 8mm microbore (several years supply in itself) and £25 quid of vouchers. Delivery was fully included in the price.

Looks like this £25 loan will make S/fix more convenient without making it more expensive. I wonder how long this will last...

I can stop playing this game simply by buying £50 of goods in one go (which I do quite often). 8-)

Once I have my £25 voucher I will view s/fix as a £25 minimum order service.

[Ed Sirett]

You're one of the last people I'd expect to hear that from....

[Lobster]

Probably depends on the overall proportion of their customers who read this newsgroup!

David

[Lobster]

And did you see the other new Screwfix trick in another thread, whereby if you access their site via quidco.co.uk you get 6% back? That one's a real no-brainer. I've saved quidco's screwfix redirect URL in my Favorites in place of

which means I get my 6% without even having to remember to do it.

David

[Andy Hall]

Is the voucher a physical bit of paper or a number that you use on line as a discount?

If you have to post the thing then the cost of doing so is already in pounds.

[Appin]

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Sadly it doesn't answer the problem of those in the Northern half of the UK where, even on the mainland, there is NO free delivery from Screwfix, no matter what the order. Hence Screwfix is on a list of non-preferred suppliers.

[Roger]

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Not what it says on the website. You just don't get next day delivery.

"Premium delivery options not available for other zones".

Other zones appear to be Scilly Isles, Isle of Man, NI and Highlands and Islands of Scotland. The latter being the Northern half of the UK only on a matter of length, a significant amount of which is open sea. In terms of area not more than the Northernmost quarter.

[Dave Liquorice]

Both, you get sent a bit of paper that has an online code on it.

[Andy Hall]

In that case, looks like a reasonable scam^H^Hheme.

[Ed Sirett]

It a physical piece of paper which has a number which you enter on the checkout page.

[Appin]

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Not quite so -- though I note that their charges HAVE changed within the last few weeks. They've obviously lost most of their customers in the northern half of the UK. They have now changed, I see, to free carriage for orders over £100 for those areas. Which means they may get some more of my orders.

It is nonetheless extremely aggravating to find many suppliers advertising free delivery to UK Mainland and then finding that much of the UK Mainland is excluded.

Screwfix seem to have learned at least something over the last few weeks. Actually what they've done is what I've several times written them suggesting they consider.

It beats me, though, how some companies like Argos and, believe it or not, even more so, Woolworths, of all people, manage to lick the problem of deliveries to the most remote of islands, yet others simply can't get their heads around it.

The dreaded Argos has struck deals with specialist carriers who, I think, get a cut on the goods through acting as agents. Woolworths can manage to operate a store in Stornoway selling goods at the same prices as on the mainland and, more important, handling catalogue orders. Companies which have licked the transport problem have very little compettion and can make a killing.

Lidl can manage to operate a store in Orkney -- with the same prices as elsewhere. Of course the British HQ is in Livingston, which may help.

It's a strange situation when it can be cheaper to order goods from overseas than from England, if you happen to live in the North of Scotland.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Appin saying something like:

Following an online order, Screwfix once phoned me to tell me that Parcelforce didn't deliver to Ireland. "What a crock of shit," I said, as I eyed a parcel with 'Parcelforce' stuck all over it. PF simply hand the parcel over to the Irish PO for delivery and it's not a problem for those sellers who can be bothered to go the extra yard for a sale.

As it turned out I got the items I wanted from Screwfix from another UK supplier who had no problem gettting it to me - using Parcelforce.

[Ed Sirett]

The microbore arrived this morning the vouchers probably will come tomorrow in the post.

[Andy Hall]

But why would anybdy want to do anything involving Parcelforce?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Hall saying something like:

They just happened to be the delivery contractor for whatever business it was. They managed to get 100% of my items to me in a reasonable time at a reasonable cost, so I'm no complaining about them as such. Are PF still extant, or are they going by some other name these days?

[Andy Hall]

I believe that they are, but are now a division of Co-operative Funeralcare.

You can pay up front for a disappointing outcome.

[The Medway Handyman]

What if the only carrier Festool & Lamello suppliers ever used was Parcelforce?

:-)

[Rod]

He'd go to Isaac Lord himself.

PF = Plantar Fasciitis?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Hall saying something like:

Burst open and end up in Stornoway?

[Appin]

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The parcel or the addressee? :-)