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Anyone tried Webbs Direct, and what did they think about it.
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In message , Keith
wrote Anyone tried Webbs Direct, and what did they think about it. Avoid if they don't have a (physical) address on the web site. Avoid if they don't have a contact phone number Avoid if they don't offer next day delivery 7 days a week. (with the better companies on the Net you can order 10pm and get delivery next day at 9am. Avoid if they use Parcel Force to deliver. -- Alan news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com |
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says... In message , Keith wrote Anyone tried Webbs Direct, and what did they think about it. Avoid if they don't have a (physical) address on the web site. Avoid if they don't have a contact phone number Avoid if they don't offer next day delivery 7 days a week. (with the better companies on the Net you can order 10pm and get delivery next day at 9am. Avoid if they use Parcel Force to deliver. Whats wrong with parcel force? I find them very reliable -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea |
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Pridham wrote In article , says... In message , Keith wrote Anyone tried Webbs Direct, and what did they think about it. Avoid if they don't have a (physical) address on the web site. Avoid if they don't have a contact phone number Avoid if they don't offer next day delivery 7 days a week. (with the better companies on the Net you can order 10pm and get delivery next day at 9am. Avoid if they use Parcel Force to deliver. Whats wrong with parcel force? I find them very reliable They are not called parcel farce without reason. You may find that when they rationalise their delivery hubs in your area you may have a round trip of 80 miles or more to the local depot to pick up parcels which they will not leave with neighbours etc. I live in a small town of around 200,000 people but parcel force feel the need to centralise their delivery hubs much further away. The reason for having fewer bases is due to falling trade as more people find them inconvenient. They are the dinosaurs of the delivery trade. On average, I receive one package a week and the ones I have most trouble actually getting in my hands are those delivered by parcel force. I tend not to do any repeat business with firms who use parcel force as their courier. -- Alan news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com |
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On 31 Jan, 01:01, Alan wrote:
In message , Keith wrote Anyone tried Webbs Direct, and what did they think about it. Avoid if they don't have a (physical) address on the web site. Avoid if they don't have a contact phone number Avoid if they don't offer next day delivery 7 days a week. (with the better companies on the Net you can order 10pm and get delivery next day at 9am. Avoid if they use Parcel Force to deliver. -- Alan news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com I have NEVER found a firm that if you order at 10pm Saturday will deliver 9am Sunday, come to that noone cantake an order at 10pm and have it delivered across the country for 9am next day, I know of no carrier that collects or accepts items for delivery after 7pm. You must live in a different world to us mortals who live in the country. David hill |
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, Dave Hill wrote On 31 Jan, 01:01, Alan wrote: In message , Keith wrote Anyone tried Webbs Direct, and what did they think about it. Avoid if they don't have a (physical) address on the web site. Avoid if they don't have a contact phone number Avoid if they don't offer next day delivery 7 days a week. (with the better companies on the Net you can order 10pm and get delivery next day at 9am. Avoid if they use Parcel Force to deliver. -- Alan news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com I have NEVER found a firm that if you order at 10pm Saturday will deliver 9am Sunday, come to that noone cantake an order at 10pm and have it delivered across the country for 9am next day, I know of no carrier that collects or accepts items for delivery after 7pm. You must live in a different world to us mortals who live in the country. David hill Then try ordering from Screwfix or CPC. In common with many companies that run an automated stock control (including some with manual picking/packing) the delivery company dumps one of or more their trailers at the premises to be loaded by the company selling the goods. They are then picked up for delivery overnight. I have had several orders that were placed on line in the late evening delivered first thing in the morning. Our local post office sorting office used to have a last collection at 11pm and letters were delivered the next morning. The last collection is now 7pm. Fast delivery is becoming normal practice for companies that want to stay in business. Gone are the days of "please wait 28 days for delivery" or "we will put it in the post when we feel like it." or in the case of Thompson & Morgan "we've sold out but we will charge your card and send you the goods in a year's time"! While I don't necessarily expect a 12 hour turn-around on a 24hr a day basis I do expect companies to send out items the next working day and to use delivery companies that have daily deliveries. -- Alan news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com |
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from Martin contains these words: On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:32:35 -0000, Charlie Pridham wrote: In article , says... In message , Keith wrote Anyone tried Webbs Direct, and what did they think about it. Avoid if they don't have a (physical) address on the web site. Avoid if they don't have a contact phone number Avoid if they don't offer next day delivery 7 days a week. (with the better companies on the Net you can order 10pm and get delivery next day at 9am. Avoid if they use Parcel Force to deliver. Whats wrong with parcel force? I find them very reliable My experience was that they not only lost a large package worth GBP550, but they also cheated on the tracking information. Neither I nor the company that shipped the package to me will ever use them again IME they are experts at breaking the contents of parcels. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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lid says... On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:32:35 -0000, Charlie Pridham wrote: In article , says... In message , Keith wrote Anyone tried Webbs Direct, and what did they think about it. Avoid if they don't have a (physical) address on the web site. Avoid if they don't have a contact phone number Avoid if they don't offer next day delivery 7 days a week. (with the better companies on the Net you can order 10pm and get delivery next day at 9am. Avoid if they use Parcel Force to deliver. Whats wrong with parcel force? I find them very reliable My experience was that they not only lost a large package worth GBP550, but they also cheated on the tracking information. Neither I nor the company that shipped the package to me will ever use them again If they had done that to me I would probebly be of like mind! but we have now sent 1,600 parcels with them and they have never lost one (but then who would be tempted to steal plants!) and only on two occassions have they not delivered on time, once was their fault as they cross labeled the parcels and the other time the customer had supplied the wrong address (he had forgotten he had moved!!) Our previous carrier had lost 1 package and delayed over 100 -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea |
[quote=Alan;828681Fast delivery is becoming normal practice for companies that want to
stay in business. Gone are the days of "please wait 28 days for delivery" or "we will put it in the post when we feel like it." or in the case of Thompson & Morgan "we've sold out but we will charge your card and send you the goods in a year's time"![/QUOTE] Yes but you pay for it in the long run by higher prices. 2 or 3 days is quite an acceptable delivery time as far as I am concerned. |
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On 31 Jan, 10:11, Alan wrote:
They are not called parcel farce without reason. On average, I receive one package a week and the ones I have most trouble actually getting in my hands are those delivered by parcel force. Last year one of them found me out & went round to my daughter 3 streets away to see if she would take the package. Then came back & put a note through my door. |
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:01:27 -0000, "Keith"
wrote: Anyone tried Webbs Direct, and what did they think about it. Seems to be part of Webbs of Wychbold, a large GC by the M5. Good GC. Pam in Bristol |
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In message , Charlie
Pridham writes In article , says... In message , Charlie Pridham wrote In article , says... In message , Keith wrote Anyone tried Webbs Direct, and what did they think about it. Avoid if they don't have a (physical) address on the web site. Avoid if they don't have a contact phone number Avoid if they don't offer next day delivery 7 days a week. (with the better companies on the Net you can order 10pm and get delivery next day at 9am. Avoid if they use Parcel Force to deliver. Whats wrong with parcel force? I find them very reliable They are not called parcel farce without reason. You may find that when they rationalise their delivery hubs in your area you may have a round trip of 80 miles or more to the local depot to pick up parcels which they will not leave with neighbours etc. I live in a small town of around 200,000 people but parcel force feel the need to centralise their delivery hubs much further away. The reason for having fewer bases is due to falling trade as more people find them inconvenient. They are the dinosaurs of the delivery trade. On average, I receive one package a week and the ones I have most trouble actually getting in my hands are those delivered by parcel force. I tend not to do any repeat business with firms who use parcel force as their courier. Well my hub is plymouth but I have never had to go there! 1st they will try 3 times for a delivery/signature often allowing you to phone and book a time, 2nd they will leave parcel without signature as directed by the customer if that's indicated at booking time, 3rd if all else fails they leave it at your local post office. They are certainly not perfect, but they are no worse in my experiance than all the others, Everyone seems to have their favourite courier they don't like. They only have to mess it up for you a couple of times and that's it (I find Home delivery Network and UPS generally the most useless FWIW) For me PF is fine, we live opposite the PO and the PF van stops in the early evening to pickup from them, if he has missed us earlier in the day he will generally try us again if it looks like we are in. Favourite is City Link as the depot is relatively near and we often seems to be near the beginning of a route so get the deliveries first thing, driver always seems to the same as well so he knows where to leave stuff safely out of the way if he can. -- Chris French |
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In message , Alan
writes In message , Dave Hill wrote On 31 Jan, 01:01, Alan wrote: In message , Keith wrote Anyone tried Webbs Direct, and what did they think about it. Avoid if they don't have a (physical) address on the web site. Avoid if they don't have a contact phone number Avoid if they don't offer next day delivery 7 days a week. (with the better companies on the Net you can order 10pm and get delivery next day at 9am. Avoid if they use Parcel Force to deliver. -- Alan news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com I have NEVER found a firm that if you order at 10pm Saturday will deliver 9am Sunday, come to that noone cantake an order at 10pm and have it delivered across the country for 9am next day, I know of no carrier that collects or accepts items for delivery after 7pm. You must live in a different world to us mortals who live in the country. David hill Then try ordering from Screwfix or CPC. In common with many companies that run an automated stock control (including some with manual picking/packing) the delivery company dumps one of or more their trailers at the premises to be loaded by the company selling the goods. They are then picked up for delivery overnight. I have had several orders that were placed on line in the late evening delivered first thing in the morning. Yep, but that isn't the same as offering delivery on the Sunday late on a Saturday, which is what you seemed to be claiming was available Also depends on the company, biggies such as screwfix or Ebuyer can have these sorts of arrangements, smaller companies can't, they don't do that amount of business -- Chris French |
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In message , Pam Moore
writes On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:01:27 -0000, "Keith" wrote: Anyone tried Webbs Direct, and what did they think about it. Seems to be part of Webbs of Wychbold, a large GC by the M5. Good GC. Yep, reputable company, what the online operation is like no idea, but IME most companies are fine, some are excellent, occasionally they mess up, very occasionally some are just crap. -- Chris French |
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