Postage up yet again!

[FluffyChicken]

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I've noticed this when buying, things are far more than they should be, brought home by the fact you can have new shiny things from CRC/wiggle etc posted free.
So buy a bottom bracket from them or some headset spacers and it cost more for you to post something similar.

Not tried selling in our local jumbles on ever been to browse.

After ride swap shops and jumbles if you ride with the rest can be good of ridding of cheap value tat.

 

[Wold Ranger]

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I've noticed this when buying, things are far more than they should be, brought home by the fact you can have new shiny things from CRC/wiggle etc posted free.
So buy a bottom bracket from them or some headset spacers and it cost more for you to post something similar.

Not tried selling in our local jumbles on ever been to browse.

After ride swap shops and jumbles if you ride with the rest can be good of ridding of cheap value tat.

I've noticed this too, they must negotiatate really low rates for volume, that we cannot access. My better half has a few businesses and buys a lot of requisites off Amazon. If you join "Amazon Prime" costs £45 pa most products are then totally postage free. I.E. she bought a set of pretty heavy bakeware (heavy cast cake tins) for her business they were only £5.95 each and post was free. Would have been about a fiver each at post office to post.
I've tried Hermes, as have some of my business pals, success rate is only around 70/80 percent, they lose a lot of parcels!!!
I spoke to a customer last week and the first thing he new about post going up, was when the post office sent him a letter the day after it had gone up! He has an on line business, so there was several thousand of his products then to re price swiftly or some would have been selling at a loss!

It's not so bad if your selling/buying high value retro parts as the percentage is only small, it's the cheaper parts and heavy/bulky stuff, like tyres/bars/wheels/frames that's the issue.

 

[xerxes]

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Who'd have thought that the newly privatised Royal Mail would be more expensive? :?

 

[CTK]

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I've just given ebay £52.87.

Bike jumbles/ hoarding is the future lol

 

[MADJEZ]

Is this a very recent price rise ? I posted a whole bike (20.5 kilos !!) with Parcelforce thru Senditnow month ago FIFTEEN QUID !!!! next day delivery.

 

[Wold Ranger]

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Yes, last Monday, but not across the board, smaller items and Air Mail mainly, doesn't affect Parcel Farce prices either.
It's the smaller lower value components that are a problem, chain rings, grips, bars, brakes, levers, shifters, Lower value cranks and the like.

 

[grogee]

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Senditnow is the future, at least for large and heavy stuff. You don't even need to leave the house!

For smaller stuff I totally agree with OP.

I've just sold a rear pannier rack for 99p - it was EIGHT QUID to send (UK).

 

[legrandefromage]

Bikes still cost me around £12 to post with no insurance via parcel2go 'standard' (UPS).

Last small Item I sent was £2.60 stand second class small packet?

 

[Tommylurve]

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I just had a hubshell shipped over form USA at a postage cost of £9, fair enough. VAT on arrival £3.20, fair enough. Royal mail "handling fee" £8, WTF!!! :evil: I'm sure this is a new thing?