Ordered 3 rolls of 150mm glass insulation from a cheap online source. Cost of materials, £78.59.
Surprised to have it roll up (!) on a Jewson lorry! Jewson price £165!
I guess the online non-Jewson firm have som arrangement.
Jewson is owned by Saint-Gobain, who also own Celotex and Isover, as well as many other brands, and other BMs like Gibbs & Dandy.
What was the online source? They might just be a direct-to-consumer brand of S-G, who use other parts of the empire for fulfillment.
Theo
That's interesting; it was a CMO group subsidiary, and the product was in fact Isover.
'Insulation Superstore' presumably? I got the impression a lot of stuff is dropshipped from suppliers: I ordered a Deanta door from an online BM and it was delivered on a Deanta truck (they're in Ely, not too far away, while the BM was in Wolverhampton or something). Perhaps Jewson is the nearest outpost of the S-G empire to you, and 'superstore' just asks S-G to deliver it.
Theo
Same happened to me, I ordered some felt shingles from Roofing Superstore and a sheet of OSB. The shingles arrived from them by courier whilst the OSB was delivered by Jewsons. Unfortunately I did not compare prices only that the OSB was slightly dearer than a local timber merchant but by the time I added the cost of a separate delivery it all amounted to the same thing.
Richard
I bought plaster on Ebay and it turned up from Jewson.
If "trade discount" from Jewson et al is 30% it's fairly easy to run a reasonably successful virtual builders merchant with an online shop, payment processor, overheads probably about 5%, and fulfilment by Jewson.
Owain
It probably means they have been making a lot of money on that line and now need the space so are willing to shift it a lot cheaper via another company, who are probably not really anything but their subsidiary. Brian
I 'phoned a local place to get a price on a radiator. It was rather expensive and didn't include VAT and delivery. Ordered one on line at about 70% of the price all inclusive - it was delivered by the same local place.
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2021, Chris Bacon snipped-for-privacy@maildrop.cc remarked:Jewson retail prices are typically very high. (ie if you aren't an account customer).
I've been buying brake fluid every couple of months because I have an untraced leak on an ATV. I was sorry to discover that our local "car spares" place had closed when I went in to pick up another bottle a few days ago. Less sorry when I found Amazon had the same stuff, next day delivery, at half the price.
You could try eurocarparts, with their permanent "discount codes".
They are. They will nomally do 20% or so, but this would need more than 50%!
It would need to be 60% even on Prestone to match Amazon's Comma at £4-99 per litre.
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