Given a Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed by 1pm 'standard' letter is £6.45 this is a bargain!
**Seller Protection
Once your item’s been checked in at Argos, we have processes to keep track of where it is. In the unlikely event that your item is lost while at Argos, we’ll refund your buyer for the value of the item at no cost to you and you will be protected from neutral or negative Feedback as well as any low detailed seller ratings related to delivery time**
"If the buyer doesn’t collect the item after 7 days of it arriving at the Argos store, it will be returned to you using a trackable postal service, at our expense. Once you receive the item back, you’ll be prompted to issue a refund. You will not be issued with a defect if the buyer fails to collect the item."
EBAY DROP-OFF
Are you looking for a more convenient
postal service? Use Argos to post items
that you’ve sold on eBay. It’s fast,
safe and secure, and you can drop off
parcels seven days a week for delivery
the next working day.*
*Small package service may take up to 48 hours
Top comments
blueroo
19 Apr 1641#9
£25 compensation as standard.
I think i will stick to myhermes, despite some people's experience, I've always found them good.
seaniboy to alanbeenthere
19 Apr 1628#6
Or do the same at the post office, pay much more and get a sales pitch for phone, broadband, travel money and insurance, credit card, banking etc etc...
mbuckhurst
19 Apr 1612#11
I'm not normally one for backing up the Royal Mail, having watched the cost of one of my items go from around £0.70 to £2.80 to post, in 4 years, but special delivery prices do not seem to be interested in sizes like the normal post.
2011 Special delivery price for 500g £5.90 for £500 compensation
2012 Special delivery price for 500g £6.35
2013 Special delivery price for 500g £6.95
2016 Special delivery price for 500g £7.25
I suggest you get a new calculator.
mike
benjammin316
19 Apr 168#1
That seems super easy and convenient, great for sellers. Though I just buy on eBay nowadays. Heat added, Argos will be busy
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benjammin316
19 Apr 168#1
That seems super easy and convenient, great for sellers. Though I just buy on eBay nowadays. Heat added, Argos will be busy
LucasZ
19 Apr 161#2
Fantastic. Thank you. Heat added!
seaniboy to LucasZ
19 Apr 163#5
:smiley:
I'm sure as soon as HUKD start using it, Sainsburys/Argos will roll it out nationally.
I sent a letter Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed by 1pm recently and the price had DOUBLED in a year!
bobbi
19 Apr 166#3
it would be if any of the 6 argos stores near me offered this service, sadly they don't.
rossaw to bobbi
19 Apr 16#19
Same for me unfortunately :disappointed:
Still, hope it takes off as it looks to be a good idea.
alanbeenthere
19 Apr 162#4
I hope you dont have to stand in the mile long line to drop off.
seaniboy to alanbeenthere
19 Apr 1628#6
Or do the same at the post office, pay much more and get a sales pitch for phone, broadband, travel money and insurance, credit card, banking etc etc...
ssjinzo
19 Apr 162#7
Does it insure the item as well and if so to what value? Does it deliver to home or argos drop off point thanks
seaniboy to ssjinzo
19 Apr 16#10
Seller Protection
Once your item’s been checked in at Argos, we have processes to keep track of where it is. In the unlikely event that your item is lost while at Argos, we’ll refund your buyer for the value of the item at no cost to you and you will be protected from neutral or negative Feedback as well as any low detailed seller ratings related to delivery time.
seaniboy
19 Apr 164#8
More info on the OTHER ebay/Argos Click & Collect service
I think i will stick to myhermes, despite some people's experience, I've always found them good.
mbuckhurst to blueroo
19 Apr 164#12
Me too, I've seen how my local Argos (which in reality is hardly local being a 40 minute round trip further away) treat collection parcels, the only business that makes the old City Link couriers seem careful.
I'll stick to Hermes for my 1kg parcels, at least they're convenient for me and so far, touch wood, 100% reliable.
mike
pew41 to blueroo
19 Apr 16#14
I've found them reliable too, but they don't transport liquids
HottyHotty to blueroo
20 Apr 16#43
For all the bad rep they get (and I realise I'm just another anecdote here), I've sent hundreds of things through myhermes with no issue.
I Ebay so much more now knowing I don't have to go to the PO with 20 odd parcels, hermes collect from your door for £3.13 under 1kg. Amazing service and it seems only more expensive than RM if the item is really small. Hate sending through RM so bloody complicated measuring everything to work out if it will fit as large letter, small letter, parcel etc etc.
BradShort to blueroo
20 Apr 16#53
As long as you are not shipping electronics . . (not insured)
shakerstevens to blueroo
20 Apr 161#55
Good company for the person sending, terrible for the person receiving (difficult to re-arrange a delivery if you miss the delivery and their depots are not open to the public for collecting parcels)
shakerstevens to blueroo
20 Apr 16#56
Only £1 extra for higher level of insurance
bizzargainhunter to blueroo
20 Apr 16#133
MyHermes have their moments, I've sent perhaps a few hundred parcels with them, and they've screwed a few parcels up, kicked a few beyond recognition, and stolen 2. 1 they stole last week. Bear in mind Royal Mail for small parcels under 2kg, which is cheaper than myhermes for that weight band.
tlapkov to blueroo
20 Apr 16#135
whattttttttt i just start with them already they lost one parcel for 80 quid and another one is not delivered after a week.
mbuckhurst
19 Apr 1612#11
I'm not normally one for backing up the Royal Mail, having watched the cost of one of my items go from around £0.70 to £2.80 to post, in 4 years, but special delivery prices do not seem to be interested in sizes like the normal post.
2011 Special delivery price for 500g £5.90 for £500 compensation
2012 Special delivery price for 500g £6.35
2013 Special delivery price for 500g £6.95
2016 Special delivery price for 500g £7.25
I suggest you get a new calculator.
mike
koolishy67
19 Apr 164#13
small parcel takee 48 hours if u use royal mail second class for £2.80 it deliver within 48-72 hours so not good for my business happy with royal mail service :smile:
mbuckhurst to koolishy67
19 Apr 163#21
I reckon around 85% of my second class letters and parcels arrive next day
Not wanting to be a pedant, but guaranteed next day delivery, other than special, hasn't been offered for years, £3.80 is standard parcel + recorded delivery, a similar service from Hermes is £2.70, but the RM allow 2kg whereas Hermes only 1kg, I suspect the person in the Post Office wasn't telling the truth. Though to be fare to the RM, most of my second class parcels and packets do arrive within 24 hours, if I ever needed something to pretty much definitely arrive next day, I send first class.
The big price changes occurred when they upped the packet rate and introduced the new parcel sizing, but even then a lot of the changes were dropped within a few months, though stupidly for the RM, by then a lot of us had found out that Hermes were just as convenient and no less reliable.
mike
malm
19 Apr 16#15
only problem is I am still getting messages to pick up deliveries I picked up weeks ago from Argos this could be an open invitation for the less honest buyers.
seaniboy
19 Apr 16#16
I used to use next day 1pm as it was much cheaper than Recorded Delivery, seems they rolled them into 1 with a hefty price rise to all sizes fit one price! All in a time where new companies are springing up all over ?
At that price give it a decade and the taxpayer will be doing another 'bank' loan to bail RM out its £3.3 billion sale to privatisation!
No idea what the woman sent it as then it was £3.80? I think and it was delivered next day - that was circa a year ago. The money was refunded cash from the recipient next time I was on site, defo was £3.70 because I paid the bus home and had change.
Got a shock when posted something for the old man in March, as well I had a card on me lol
LiGhTfasT
19 Apr 16#17
Would be great but out of all the Argos round here they chose the one inside a shopping centre instead of the out of town retail parks :disappointed:
Comparing it to Special Delivery is just silliness. Compare it to 2nd Class Recorded, Hermes Parcelshop or Collect+ and then come back and tell us with a straight face that it's a bargain. :wink:
Nexusfifth
19 Apr 162#24
They don't put it on the site but you can pay 1£ extra for compensation up to 1000£.
The reason they are good and better than royal mail cheaper options. (except price wise for larger items) is they offer tracking.
On eBay you sell am item you post with signed for second class and the buyer Cam simply say they didn't receive it and you lose the money and the item. If you don't believe me Google around, eBay is a b*itch.
eBay small print sais they protect you only if you use tracked for delivery, so if you have an Argos around I think they are a decent option. (and not actually done by argos, they use some other company, argos is simply used as a drop off point)
afroylnt
19 Apr 16#25
Exactly which is why I use Hermes, not as fast but cheaper and so far reliable.
However this deal does seem worth trying, always good to have alternatives.
willyzippy89
19 Apr 16#26
So just to wrap my 6 brain cells around this,
I bring any reasonable size parcel to my local Argos and they post it to my buyers home address for a small fee? Or just to their local Argos store for collection?
bigbak to willyzippy89
19 Apr 16#28
It says they collect from Argos.
shakerstevens to willyzippy89
20 Apr 161#58
To their home address. Argos us UKmail to do this service, the person receiving the parcel just receives it from the courier company not even aware its Argos that helped with the start of the process.
Although its aimed as an eBay service/partnership, you could send any parcel using this service. Argos don't ask for proof that the item in your parcel box was actually sold on ebay.
mimi78
19 Apr 162#27
I work in a Post Office and the price has NOT doubled in a year. There was a minor increase last year and no increase this year
itsillogical
19 Apr 16#29
Worse still, a postman Pat on an endless cycle
seaniboy
19 Apr 16#30
I paid less than £4, it was delivered next day...no idea why or what but it was ?
HDUKBargainHunter
19 Apr 161#31
This deal is awful!
Why on earth the OP is quoting special delivery for a letter as a comparison is beyond me, as it is a completely different service with £500 compensation vs £25 here.
Also you can send a 1kg parcel of any size for just £8.25 with special delivery, £500 compensation and a full refund if not delivered before 1pm next day....vs 24-48 hours offered here and some odd sizing.... 30cm square is not a common parcel size so most will be in the next bracket which is £6.23...
Finally what is convenient about going into town? I have 3 post offices within a 3 mile radius!
Cold.
benjammin316 to HDUKBargainHunter
20 Apr 162#44
Deal not tailored to your exact needs, vote it cold. Way to go champ
plodging
19 Apr 16#32
Argos don't even deliver from their own eBay outlet to their own shops ludicrous .
seaniboy to plodging
19 Apr 16#33
Write and complain to them if enough HUKD do you never know!
Argos eBay Outlet
Unit B, Tyson Courtyard, Weldon South Industrial Estate
Corby
Northants
NN18 8AZ
STORE NUMBER 4198
HDUKBargainHunter
19 Apr 16#34
No, The price has risen a whopping 45p in the last 4 years actually. While every other courier is making you pay a fortune for cover. I am not a royal mail fanboy but I spend 20K a year with them for a reason, They are still the best courier for smaller items by a long way.
malm
19 Apr 16#35
Competition in the delivery sector is good for buyers and sellers,some delivery charges have been excessive,roll on the competition.
carltonbp
19 Apr 16#36
As someone who traipsed 20min to Collect+ (to return an item) then another 10 mins to a Hermes shop whose opening hours were incorrect on their site and was closed, then got a lift to yet another Hermes shop I would have loved this today. Argos is less than 10min walk away and in town from me but in Harrogate the Collect+ and Hermes stores are all about 20min walk away and in a useless direction.
FWIW Interparcel are very competitive, for example today I was sending some large curtains, Hermes up to 5kg with £50 comp and signature is £6.24 whilst it's £7.79 on the Hermes site (that's with £100 comp). Parcel Monkey doesn't seem to have many couriers now. Also you can pay using your Amazon account at no extra cost which made paying very easy.
It's good we have more options over 2kg, RM are a disgrace making over 2kg so prohibitively expensive.
Thanks op.
kolibri
20 Apr 16#37
Thanks!
ompek
20 Apr 16#38
I guess it may suit some sellers if their nearby Argos participates and they have no many item to post. Myself, with average of 500 items a week I carry on using Hermes and RM with free collections (due to volume) - no next day delivery though but 48hrs only however much cheaper!
By the way, I hate Ebay - the worst place to sell stuff!
indigowest2004
20 Apr 16#39
Ompek what are u selling just out curiosity. 500 items a week is alot!
ompek to indigowest2004
20 Apr 16#70
sports supplements mate
jamie221983
20 Apr 161#40
Hermes have been brilliant so far as got annoyed with chancers trying to say item had not been delivered!
Bal00chi
20 Apr 161#41
the post office deliver it to recipient's door, this won't the buyer has to be willing to collect rarely will they take this option at checkout.
seaniboy to Bal00chi
20 Apr 16#63
Most people pop out on lunch, and can easily to a local Argos. Some sit and eat junk food for lunch and moan they are fat and cant shift it, its up to the horse what course it takes :wink:
steveblackman
20 Apr 16#42
I don't send anything with Royal Mail as they only pay the amount you pay for the item and not the amount the item sells for. That lost 5% of my parcels sent last year.
seaniboy to steveblackman
20 Apr 16#65
Lost income, time, packaging and expense cost nothing eh... typical RM lol
dbox
20 Apr 16#45
The argos stores I have visited often don't have enough staff and keep people waiting, I can't see them being as efficient as The Post Office unless there is a dedicated counter and member of staff and wouldn't want to trust some teenager with my parcels.
It will be much more efficient sending with Royal Mail especially as most people can easily collect items if they are not in when its attempted to be delivered.
devil_tez
20 Apr 16#46
I can't post through any of the argos' near me, does this mean I can't collect from an Argos either? What happens if the buyer doesn't have a participating Argos near them?
shishiragarwal
20 Apr 16#48
ebay is worst. no seller protection whatsoever. customer is pants. stop using ebay. there r many other sites where u can easily sell
shishiragarwal
20 Apr 16#49
ebay is worst. no seller protection whatsoever. customer service is pants. stop using ebay. there r many other sites where u can easily sell
kamenitzabrit to shishiragarwal
20 Apr 163#76
Here we go again - please name some other sites with worldwide coverage, where items don't stay on sale for several years (like ebid for example)....... and as for the 'easily sell', I'm eagerly waiting to know of sites where my stuff will sell, rather than listing it and hoping.
At least with ebay I can sell a couple of hundred items some months, some go to the states, others various European countries, and a few to Russia, South America etc..... so please tell us all what other sites can compete with that.
HDUKBargainHunter
20 Apr 16#50
Yawn!
Deal voted cold because its not a good deal at all. Much rather use my local PO and pay another 15p for 2nd class recorded with £50 of cover.
I am betting it will get there just as quickly, Their delivery schedule is very vague (next day 24-48 hours?)
captainbeaky
20 Apr 161#51
They're pretty good - but as with all parcel brokers you have to check their terms to see what they will carry or won't carry & what they will/ won't insure as they usually have a blanket policy for all the carriers they use.
capriboycraig
20 Apr 16#52
Thanks for the heads up,great to see Argos rolling this service out to everyone though ideally they need to offer drop off at >90% of stores to make it a deal changer.
I've become increasingly disillusioned with myhermes of late so this might be a viable alternative. Fwiw I had no real issues with myhermes for a long time, but when things went wrong it was an incredibly frustrating experience. Forced me to read there T&C's in depth, and realised how many get out of Jail Cards they hold even when it's them that's at fault.
shakerstevens
20 Apr 16#54
This is an excellent service, I have been using it for about 2-3 months for sending stuff I sell on ebay.
Its far cheaper than the post office and the main thing for me is I can post in the evenings as I work all week. With the post office I had to wait until Saturday morning to post items.
Full tracking is included and its only £1 more to upgrade to insure items to a higher value.
They use UKmail to do the actual delivery. When your ebay customer receives the item that's who they get it from, not Argos.
It seems to be its limited to a handful of Argos stores, so when I've bought items off ebay and suggested sellers to use it they often can't.
The only issue to mention is not all the staff in the Argos store are trained to book items into this service and the PC they use to do it is extremely slow (they don't use the normal tills) but its still far better for me compared to rushing around on a Saturday morning.
mbuckhurst to shakerstevens
20 Apr 16#68
I don't get the far cheaper than the post office, until very recently a parcel up to 2kg costs £2.80 to send 2nd class, almost all their 2nd class arrives in 24-48 hrs, to add recorded costs another £1. Even allowing for the recent price hike it comes to £3.85, so barely any difference in price. It's perhaps the very heaviest and biggest parcels that become the best value for money, but there are plenty of courier companies that offer similar or lower pricing.
mike
Sogaaddict
20 Apr 16#57
Hermes, like Yodel, have got better, a year or two ago Hermes courier would leave huge parcels in full view in the rain, they've hopefully stopped that now.
seaniboy
20 Apr 16#59
Some great info in here with regards to other couriers etc, its a shame likes dont become personal heat!
splatsplatsplat
20 Apr 16#60
Ive sent loads of parcels to Argos when a buyer requests it. Unfortunately 7 days is not long enough, a lot of buyers forget or cant get to one in time and the parcel comes back (free but then Ive lost a sale and the outbound postage lost) . It needs to be 10days to capture 2 weekends with a auto reminder sent halfway, but I can't use this service as its a 2 hour round trip for me. Even it it was the local shop, the price of parking £1.50 would kill any benefit.
seaniboy to splatsplatsplat
20 Apr 16#66
Surely you refund less your postage cost ? Liability for out of expenses cost falls with the breaching party of the contract.
chezvegas85
20 Apr 162#61
My OH uses drop and go at the post office, so there is no waiting in a line at all. Can even drop off at the shop counter before PO counter opens. So the mile long queue comment may be valid about the argos service.
ftbf444
20 Apr 161#62
thank you OP!
STi_prodrive
20 Apr 16#64
sadly I can say the same.. I have loads near me but they don't offer the service! stupid punks
mbuckhurst
20 Apr 16#67
Not with the distance selling regulations, which puts the costs firmly on the seller, even if the buyer changes their mind.
mike
scottz17
20 Apr 161#69
Not in my local Argos but heat for those where it is :smiley:
shakerstevens
20 Apr 16#71
I've not got Royal Mail pricing to hand but the typical item I would post would be over 2KG but less than 5KG. The services Royal Mail offer that's suitable for my parcels such as 1/2nd class recorded or even parcel force 48 hour services are usually in the region of £10-£14 whereas the same item is about £8 with Argos. Sorry I don't have exact prices as typing this from my mobile but I'm definitely saving a few £ per parcel.
benasipro
20 Apr 16#72
The only cheap is 20kg, <70 cm, £8.22
snedger
20 Apr 16#73
The free delivery option worked well for me last week - only took 2 days for my parcel to get to Argos.
Argos staff could have been more attentive, as there was no queue at the ebay/fast collect pickup point, but once they'd bothered to serve me, the handover of the parcel was very efficient - wasn't asked for proof of id, so could be a problem if the pickup code was found and used by someone else.
Hot deal!
DarkReborn11 to snedger
20 Apr 16#80
Argos near me has pretty good service. After making quite a few pickups I don't bother joining the main queue but go straight the ebay super computer. Once you give the code, they ask for your name though sometimes they ask is that your name? Never asked for ID either although I'm not too bothered. Only way someone can get hold of your code is through your ebay, e-mail or phone.
Also a note for newbies - don't bother turning up at Argos until you get the code sent to you. If after a few days you get nothing, contact the seller, they can only get you the code, not Argos as a buyer.
seaniboy
20 Apr 161#74
WHOOP! *HUKD pick*
Thanks heaters :wink:
seaniboy
20 Apr 161#75
Changing your mind/cancelling and returning and failed collection are two different matters. I would refund minus the delivery charge unless cancelled. If a buyer does not invoke the DSR by informing the seller of cancellation of the sale in the permitted DSR time frame they cant have its protection.
On receipt of return with no DSR invoked the cost would be on the buyer not the seller, no court is going to award a person who did not invoke their DSR rights a refund of a sellers out of pocket expenses for delivery when the buyer failed to collect as notified
their order or notify the seller of its unwanted status.
splatsplatsplat
20 Apr 16#77
No court, just ebays feedback system which any defect will contribute to them reducing your placings or switching you off completely.
008
20 Apr 16#78
A lot of the sellers with stores [small to mid size sellers] and some of the big boys use
this service, but the fee is not £3.80!! Much less.. think the fact you can send anything
you like by rmsd [see mbuckhursts excellent reference above] and have it covered for
£500 regardless, is still, 10 years on, the best way to send anything of value or with a
need to know where, who and how it is being progressed.
The MyHermes is the next best thing for small parcels @great value up to 1kg..
Shame that royal mail charge so much for so little with everything else eg: letters
as there is still no real cost effective way to actually post anything that has little
or no value..
seaniboy
20 Apr 16#79
Ebay cant enforce full refund, it can only request... that where no DSR is invoked. Read the links in post 8 about seller protection.
Reluctant to use Royal Mail anymore they have gone from a great public service to a capitalist money tree funding large city institutions and helping fund large bonuses for the few at the expense of the poor, so its great that there monopoly of this sector is being gradually eroded, well done Argos.
seaniboy to flinnyourin
20 Apr 16#83
Not to mention Post Office Ltd, Nov 13 - £640 million of funding for 2015 to 2018 to allow Post Office Ltd to modernise. That is YOUR tax subsidising Royal Mail using the Post Office, whilst it makes profits WE all fund the counters it uses in Post Offices. Double tax - gross taxed and pay for service.
11% of shares of Royal Mail current are owned by employees, their first 3 year sell off period is this financial year.
Phila4
20 Apr 16#82
Having weighed up all the comments and pros/cons of this service, it seems a whole lot of hassle, with many stores not included and at the end of the day no real price difference with other 'better' services delivered to the front door.
I also judge this by the fact I would NEVER select pick up at Argos because it means a 5 mile round journey, my petrol, parking in a very busy out of town car park and waiting around at Argos.
This may be good for some people, but I can see the majority of people wouldn't use this service, as detailed by the comments.
Sorry, it's a brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr cold from me.
DarkReborn11 to Phila4
20 Apr 161#104
There are plenty of people where Argos store is local, walking distance and parking is free, especially when you don't go during peak times and back in a few mins. Like myself.
Also good if Argos is on your way to/from work, live in a flat where you share one main letterbox and rely on neighbours to not take your post, live in a tower block, rough area, dodgy neighbors, suspicious postman or one who likes to play knock door run.
Also if no ones at at home & will miss the post too large for letterbox, picking up is your only option or deliver to friends/family. Probably more hassle to go the Royal Mail depo to pick it up.
Guest991145
20 Apr 161#84
The parcel is delivered to any address, not just another Argos store. This is no real difference to buying courier service through ipostparcels.com which lets you buy a one off courier label for UK Mail who also pick up and deliver parcels for this Argos service.
Personally I will stick to My Hermes. It is cheaper for lighter parcels and if I am sending a heavy parcel I'd rather pay a few pence extra to have it collected from home than try and get it to my local Argos.
royaltee
20 Apr 16#85
Hermes deliver to the recipient's door instead of store.
They insure the item for £50 instead of £25.
They have thousands of local shops that you can drop off to far more conveniently with no queuing many of them open to 10pm and midnight.
I trust the cornershop manager who owns his shop, lives there and has 14 cctv cameras per square inch far more than Argos who could not possibly care less.
seaniboy to royaltee
20 Apr 16#87
14 cameras per square inch ? his poor wife!
jayjayuk1234 to royaltee
20 Apr 16#96
But, beware that Hermes exclude a big list of things from compensation,
seaniboy
20 Apr 16#86
Like Barrs juices and other companies, they are buying stock room space from Argos - it was diversifying its stores for more profit. UK Mail seems to have done this.
Slash
20 Apr 16#88
How long does it take for them to process each item to be sent?
hugh1988
20 Apr 16#89
Still more expensive than Hermes. I'll stick with them. They are usually 24-48 hours with drop-off anyway.
Cyb to hugh1988
20 Apr 16#92
Me too. The price of posting with Royal Mail is just shocking.
It's cheaper for me to send small items weighing 150g by myHermes for £2.70 with tracked 2-5 day delivery (usually 2 days) than send with Roya Mail for £2.85 for 2nd Class untracked delivery.
hugh1988
20 Apr 16#90
They do if you don't tell them!
Cyb
20 Apr 16#91
Don't touch them with a bargepole. They will not take any responsibility for a missed pickup or late delivery or lost parcel. They try to convince you they're a comaprison website when they certainly are not.
benasipro
20 Apr 16#93
Which courier provider using the Argos for this service ?
Toonah
20 Apr 16#94
Seems like a nice offer, but I'm not sure I like that you drop off in Argos (easy for me) but the buyer has to collect from Argos (if I understand this correctly), no idea if that works for them, so can't really say it's a good offer.
jayjayuk1234 to Toonah
20 Apr 16#97
You clearly didn't read the thread, and now assuming that the recipient needs to collect from Argos?
Palwan
20 Apr 16#95
I see only negative here as seller - Buyer fails to pick you have to take all the hassel again (relisting, repacking, reposting, issuing refund and how many times)
Good for buyers, change of mind for second hand goods (Keep bidding and only collect the cheapest).
Wavod
20 Apr 16#98
As an EX Post Office employee I find this hilarious & the reason why I left. Lol.
cokezone1112
20 Apr 16#99
Sorry but why should they? I wouldn't go complaining to flight scanner if my easy jet flight was delayed or compare the market for poor insurance company I picked
Hunkerdown
20 Apr 16#100
£1 extra insures the parcel for upto £1000. It's a good service and especially if your sending a large heavy package.
winwin94
20 Apr 161#101
Amazing! Thank you.
MICKYBLUE
20 Apr 16#102
Could anyone recommend a parcel delivery service that is reasonable & reliable as I need to send a parcel to Norway - under 1kg so not that heavy. Thank you :-)
corred1964 to MICKYBLUE
20 Apr 16#108
Under 1kg then RM are probably still your cheapest option......remember Norway are non EU so you will have to add a customs declaration & the recipient will probably have import charges to pay
hugh1988 to MICKYBLUE
20 Apr 161#115
Use a parcel price comparison website such as Parcel2Go
Village
20 Apr 16#103
Why the hell would anyone want to deal with eBay? Talking to their ironically named "customer service" department is akin to banging one's head on a wall.
seaniboy to Village
20 Apr 16#105
Like most companies that take our cash.
seaniboy
20 Apr 161#106
True that, my RM depot is on the edge of the city behind a Sainsburys in a deprived part of town....ie middle of nowhere! The nearest bus stop is a ten minute walk for me, quicker going to Argos and back in town.
Phil_G
20 Apr 162#107
I have read this entire thread an dI think I have found the cause for a lot of the confusion in it. The OP has included a paragraph about what happens if the buyer does not collect their goods. I think this relates to a different service, the service where you can opt to have an item delivered to a store rather than to your home address.
This service delivers to your front door, it is just the seller that needs to make it to a store. The buyer will never even know that this is the shipping provider.
With this in mind, this service is just another courier, at a comparable price. Only suitable for low volume / one off sellers. Nothing to get excited about. Hot sure how it got to be 800+ degrees.
Voted cold, mostly because no stores in the coventry / nuneaton area support this. That's a big hole in the centre of the country not covered.
steveblackman
20 Apr 16#109
Difference is you claim via parcel monkey and not direct with courier.
steveblackman
20 Apr 16#110
Exactly this.
seaniboy
20 Apr 162#111
Well free advertising on HUKD and use of the service might mean a national roll out :wink:
A sensible move by UKmail who only have 50 depots, much less than Argos participating stores :wink:
To re-emphasise for those misled by earlier comments, this includes delivery to the buyer's home.
Now. Does anyone who has used it know if they put the cost of postage on the label? Buyers never understand why they may have paid a little more than that figure, and can mark you down.
rakinmorjaria1
20 Apr 161#113
Royal Mail collect from us, so no it's not the same for everyone.
seaniboy
20 Apr 16#114
Indeed but thats the minority of people.
carltonbp
20 Apr 16#116
It works for me because I'm close to an Argos (less than 10 min walk) and it's in town so near everything else, also it's a quiet store so usually in and out in 2mins. Hermes and Collect plus are 20min walk away in a direction that's no other use to me and the stores are flexible in their interpretation of opening hours so often shutting early if it's nice or quiet. So for parcels over 2kg I think I'll use this now. Where I lived until recently in London I wouldn't have used this as the North Finchley Argos was a bus ride away and was always heaving, and there was a Collect+ in Muswell Hill so I could do other things there and a Hermes store in East Finchley so again a nice range of local shops.
terryking
20 Apr 16#117
RUBBISH OFFER.
i have to drive 20 mins there and then 20 mins back to get to Argos so that my customer can get this special price.
thats okay if you live next door to argos but generally they are in the town centre.
Who is paying my time and petrol for this? Ebay sellers make peanuts and then the customer expects the earth and Ebay are total SH*ts who could not give a t*ss about the seller. I deal on ebay i know, its all garbage and so is the quality of most of the stuff sold there.
r401caw
20 Apr 16#118
Hermes for regular places - 2nd class post for out of the way places - that works best for us
nervejam
20 Apr 161#119
No good to me yet - none of my local stores are on the list. There also needs to be a way to print a label and pay online, then just drop it off, rather than buying a label instore - THAT is crazy.. I can just imagine the old biddy at my local branch coping with that..NOT!
MICKYBLUE
20 Apr 16#120
Thank you very much - going to pop down to the local Post Office.
Thank you again :-)
Guest991145
20 Apr 161#121
Maybe you could tell us your shop name/user id so we can avoid the "garbage" you are selling.
As an Ebay seller (who obviously is the only seller of decent merchandise going on what Terry King is claiming) i find that most customers do not really care who delivers their item as long as it is cheap. Those who do are mostly happy to pay extra for Royal Mail.
Exinferis
20 Apr 16#122
Nope, not a good deal as far as I can see.
Firstly, it's too expensive; I'm not a major seller, I just sell parts of my collection when I need to make space for new stuff. My Hermes is by far the best service for me. £2.70 for a fully tracked service, which complies with eBay's seller protection scheme is much better value than RM or this new Argos offering.
Secondly, there isn't a single Argos in the whole of Lincolnshire participating! This isn't a "it's no good for me as there isn't one local" comment, it's a "this is no good to anyone in the entire county comment! Also looks like most of the Country's of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are excluded too. I understand these things need to be trialled, but excluding entire counties/Countries isn't the best way to get sellers on-board!
Right, I'm off to book a My Hermes delivery that I can drop off at the petrol station in town a few miles away!
Sqsq
20 Apr 16#123
As a buyer I don't care who delivers my parcels. Luckily in my area they are all good.
Except if it's Yodel, we refuse delivery and buy from another seller.
twinkle to Sqsq
20 Apr 162#125
So the item you've bought arrives at your door and you refuse it...and take another chance with someone else???
Ever give a thought about the seller???
fatdeeman to Sqsq
20 Apr 161#126
Such a sense of entitlement.
seaniboy to Sqsq
20 Apr 16#128
lol
solidamber
20 Apr 16#124
certainly worth it for larger items,
Cyb
20 Apr 16#127
Because unlike flight scanner (I'm assuming you mean Skyscanner) you don't pay Skyscanner for your product. But with ParcelMonkey you do pay them but you get zero protection or service.
Phil_G
20 Apr 16#129
This is a "HUKD Pick", so I doubt it was free advertising...
seaniboy
20 Apr 16#130
It wasn't to start with :wink:
seaniboy
20 Apr 16#131
Thanks to all the hotties for the heat, got my orange hotspot badge :smile:
metoyou123
20 Apr 161#132
great post....happy to send it to 1000 degrees☺
bizzargainhunter
20 Apr 16#134
thanks for posting.
squiby
20 Apr 16#136
I can see alot of people not picking up their items deliberately if they change their mind so be ready for refunding them all.
Sophiasky
20 Apr 161#137
Thank you for the post, could make use of this.
stuntman9883
20 Apr 162#138
heat
friar_chris
20 Apr 16#139
eBay is great until they mess up your account. As soon as they fiddle they are hopeless at putting anything right. A lot like MyHermes in that respect. Wouldn't trust either with my parcels given my experience with them both. Jokers.
If you use parcel2go to book your hermes delivery it is 2.60for the 1kg service and if you don't want compensation. I sometimes sent stuff worth a fiver or less so i just use that as i still have prepay credit.
yo007mo
21 Apr 16#142
why you touching wood.? thanks.
julieallen
21 Apr 16#143
You sell garbage?
Why don't you move house then you could be a 2 minute walk from Argos.
I live about 45 minutes from John Lewis but I wouldn't say any of their in store deals are rubbish solely because I would have to get off my **** to take advantage of them.
I love the idea it's supposed to protect against malevolent spirits, I don't think there's a more apt way to describe any courier/delivery company.
mike
gr8h8me
21 Apr 16#145
Ebay? Who are they now? Rip off company
mbuckhurst
21 Apr 16#146
I hadn't noticed that bit about buying the label, goodness knows that fact alone means it's never likely to be faster than a post office, not withstanding, I've got to make a 15 mile round trip by car or bike, to the nearest eligible Argos, whereas my Post Office is 8 minutes walk away and 3 Hermes drop off places within a 12-15 minutes walk. Looking at it between my house and the Argos, there's a total of 9 different places I could drop off my parcels, if they're going to want to make this work, they'll need to expand to all their stores pretty damn quick or reduce the cost to make it worth the effort.
mike
tallpete33
21 Apr 16#147
At last somebody gets this. It is a delivery service to the door - you drop off at Argos. OP muddied the waters himself by posting links in post 8 to the Click and Collect service which is something entirely different.
I used this service once and it was really hard work at the store with clueless staff taking forever. I couldn't use the tracking ref they gave me until I contacted them and found out it was serviced by UK Mail. Doesn't seem to be a way of booking it online either unless I'm looking in the wrong place but this does mean you can post anything, not just ebay items. I find Collect Plus much easier but also use RM as they often work out cheaper depending on the weight.
tom_5
21 Apr 16#148
collection service from RM is available for everyone pretty cheap so no
seaniboy
21 Apr 16#149
Everyone ? Doubt it, do you have a link to pricing
geisha6
21 Apr 16#150
I do not see how this is a better deal then what is currently available?
1 kg parcels takes 24-48h so you cannot compare it to special delivery therefore it is still cheaper to send it via myhermes or even cheaper via RM if you can squeeze it into large letter.
5 kg parcels costs £6.59 inpost via parcel2go.com - also 24h service and more drop off points than argos at least in my area so here you need to check which drop off point is closer to you as the difference is only £0.36
20 kg parcels also cheaper via parcel2go £7.91 with bigger parcel dimensions and door to door service so you do not have to carry it!
julieallen
21 Apr 16#151
£800 a year for the cheapest service isn't it? Not very cheap if you only send one or two items a week.
HotUkDale
21 Apr 16#152
Heat added thanks :smiley:
Bobef90
21 Apr 16#153
link to participating stores doesn't work.
Youngy
21 Apr 161#154
I've used Argos to pickup eBay purchases, always find the staff so slow. eBay say go straight to the eBay counter but the staff ignore you and others customers think you're pushing in. So you end up queuing and they take forever.
universe1992
21 Apr 16#155
Hopefully more stores will be added soon
tayba20
21 Apr 16#156
bare in mind ukmail is the courier that ebay-argos are using when they deliver they are good but in case of lost parcel their support is like you are contacting someone from space at your own phonecall cost. its not as simple as royal mail (fill in the claim form and few weeks you get a cheque). there is no claim form or any kind of help to claim your money back. on the phone all they do is switch you from one department to the others costing you a huge phone bill(0345).i am not saying don't use them but when you get 2-3 bad experience its hard to forget. started using myhermes fully tracked low cost loving it.
tayba20
21 Apr 161#157
i totally agree
ompek
21 Apr 16#158
another great idea... It started off with same day despatch, now it is time for next day delivery! what's next? Where are those days when being a seller on Ebay was nice and easy???
simonlilly
22 Apr 16#159
I would still stick with myhermes as well
seaniboy
22 Apr 161#160
Perhaps you should try yahoo auctions ?
seaniboy
22 Apr 16#161
Supply and demand, if your cost, customer service and time management are not upto scratch then someone who is will get the sale..
seaniboy
22 Apr 161#162
Would not be like a large company to introduce something in a publicity bonanza but not train staff accordingly...Orange Broadband, Vodafone 30 day trial, Tesco overcharge policy...
I'm sure the more people who use the service staff will be enforced on the job training.
From a consumers point of view if your Argos is poor as such, email Argos and copy in UKmail...saying nothing and expecting the best service is a fault with UK consumers. UKmail are paying Argos for use of their stores and you bet if they know Argos is not attending to customers the way they are meant to it will be addressed.
All I would say is sender Beware! I had the worst experience with this setup then I have ever had with other companies... They use UK Mail and their customer services is abysmal! I sent a item on a Monday which should have been delivered on the Tuesday.... Wednesday came and I had no confirmation email, so I checked and it was showing delayed. I phoned cs which is automated to go through the menu and all options end with a "thank you and goodbye". I sent them a email which opened a case.....got a reply to say it was opened followed by another to say the case was closed! Phoned Argos and after a hour wait was told to contact eBay about this....I explained the situation to them and they promised to call me back....which they did not do! Come the Friday I got a email off the buyer to say it had arrived 4 days late and sent me photos of the damaged box and damaged contents.....to which I had to give a partial refund of 33% of the sold price! And I have never had a returned email or call from UK mail.eBay or Argos. Just beware of this setup. PS I paid the extra £1 for compensation for what use that was.
tallpete33
22 Apr 16#164
This is not even new, it has been in operation for months so the staff should be trained by now. Why should I bother mailing these people, I have better things to do and just won't use them again.
seaniboy
22 Apr 16#165
And karma means you get bad care somewhere else, its about setting consumer industry standards, if you cant take the time dont moan about it :smiley:
tallpete33
22 Apr 16#166
If you say so Mister Miyagi . . . . :confused:
seaniboy
23 Apr 16#167
Eye wurked in services industrie, if yoo no provide feedback to top doggies no thin improve, if big bos no improv such after hee no - youse feet...HIYA!
Bu feet maybe go worse places because CONsumor con selfs into poor service becos no raise high standard at competitioner! Ka'ma haha, hav good day ahead weepete :wink:
deany76
24 Apr 16#168
I sent a mouse in the post and buyer is saying 'not received' paid £2.60 with just 'proof of posting'.
I have checked myhermes website and its £2.70 with £20 insurance, so 10p for the insurance.
(They dont appear to cover all the UK though.)
seaniboy
24 Apr 16#169
Handy they allow a claim online...
Not so great its third party or the RM branded website is picked up as a possible scam by browsers.
Opening post
**Seller Protection
Once your item’s been checked in at Argos, we have processes to keep track of where it is. In the unlikely event that your item is lost while at Argos, we’ll refund your buyer for the value of the item at no cost to you and you will be protected from neutral or negative Feedback as well as any low detailed seller ratings related to delivery time**
"If the buyer doesn’t collect the item after 7 days of it arriving at the Argos store, it will be returned to you using a trackable postal service, at our expense. Once you receive the item back, you’ll be prompted to issue a refund. You will not be issued with a defect if the buyer fails to collect the item."
EBAY DROP-OFF
Are you looking for a more convenient
postal service? Use Argos to post items
that you’ve sold on eBay. It’s fast,
safe and secure, and you can drop off
parcels seven days a week for delivery
the next working day.*
*Small package service may take up to 48 hours
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I think i will stick to myhermes, despite some people's experience, I've always found them good.
2011 Special delivery price for 500g £5.90 for £500 compensation
2012 Special delivery price for 500g £6.35
2013 Special delivery price for 500g £6.95
2016 Special delivery price for 500g £7.25
I suggest you get a new calculator.
mike
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:smiley:
I'm sure as soon as HUKD start using it, Sainsburys/Argos will roll it out nationally.
I sent a letter Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed by 1pm recently and the price had DOUBLED in a year!
Still, hope it takes off as it looks to be a good idea.
Once your item’s been checked in at Argos, we have processes to keep track of where it is. In the unlikely event that your item is lost while at Argos, we’ll refund your buyer for the value of the item at no cost to you and you will be protected from neutral or negative Feedback as well as any low detailed seller ratings related to delivery time.
http://sellercentre.ebay.co.uk/click-and-collect
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/sell/click-and-collect/
I think i will stick to myhermes, despite some people's experience, I've always found them good.
I'll stick to Hermes for my 1kg parcels, at least they're convenient for me and so far, touch wood, 100% reliable.
mike
I Ebay so much more now knowing I don't have to go to the PO with 20 odd parcels, hermes collect from your door for £3.13 under 1kg. Amazing service and it seems only more expensive than RM if the item is really small. Hate sending through RM so bloody complicated measuring everything to work out if it will fit as large letter, small letter, parcel etc etc.
2011 Special delivery price for 500g £5.90 for £500 compensation
2012 Special delivery price for 500g £6.35
2013 Special delivery price for 500g £6.95
2016 Special delivery price for 500g £7.25
I suggest you get a new calculator.
mike
Not wanting to be a pedant, but guaranteed next day delivery, other than special, hasn't been offered for years, £3.80 is standard parcel + recorded delivery, a similar service from Hermes is £2.70, but the RM allow 2kg whereas Hermes only 1kg, I suspect the person in the Post Office wasn't telling the truth. Though to be fare to the RM, most of my second class parcels and packets do arrive within 24 hours, if I ever needed something to pretty much definitely arrive next day, I send first class.
The big price changes occurred when they upped the packet rate and introduced the new parcel sizing, but even then a lot of the changes were dropped within a few months, though stupidly for the RM, by then a lot of us had found out that Hermes were just as convenient and no less reliable.
mike
At that price give it a decade and the taxpayer will be doing another 'bank' loan to bail RM out its £3.3 billion sale to privatisation!
No idea what the woman sent it as then it was £3.80? I think and it was delivered next day - that was circa a year ago. The money was refunded cash from the recipient next time I was on site, defo was £3.70 because I paid the bus home and had change.
Got a shock when posted something for the old man in March, as well I had a card on me lol
The reason they are good and better than royal mail cheaper options. (except price wise for larger items) is they offer tracking.
On eBay you sell am item you post with signed for second class and the buyer Cam simply say they didn't receive it and you lose the money and the item. If you don't believe me Google around, eBay is a b*itch.
eBay small print sais they protect you only if you use tracked for delivery, so if you have an Argos around I think they are a decent option. (and not actually done by argos, they use some other company, argos is simply used as a drop off point)
However this deal does seem worth trying, always good to have alternatives.
I bring any reasonable size parcel to my local Argos and they post it to my buyers home address for a small fee? Or just to their local Argos store for collection?
Although its aimed as an eBay service/partnership, you could send any parcel using this service. Argos don't ask for proof that the item in your parcel box was actually sold on ebay.
I paid less than £4, it was delivered next day...no idea why or what but it was ?
Why on earth the OP is quoting special delivery for a letter as a comparison is beyond me, as it is a completely different service with £500 compensation vs £25 here.
Also you can send a 1kg parcel of any size for just £8.25 with special delivery, £500 compensation and a full refund if not delivered before 1pm next day....vs 24-48 hours offered here and some odd sizing.... 30cm square is not a common parcel size so most will be in the next bracket which is £6.23...
Finally what is convenient about going into town? I have 3 post offices within a 3 mile radius!
Cold.
Argos eBay Outlet
Unit B, Tyson Courtyard, Weldon South Industrial Estate
Corby
Northants
NN18 8AZ
STORE NUMBER 4198
FWIW Interparcel are very competitive, for example today I was sending some large curtains, Hermes up to 5kg with £50 comp and signature is £6.24 whilst it's £7.79 on the Hermes site (that's with £100 comp). Parcel Monkey doesn't seem to have many couriers now. Also you can pay using your Amazon account at no extra cost which made paying very easy.
It's good we have more options over 2kg, RM are a disgrace making over 2kg so prohibitively expensive.
Thanks op.
By the way, I hate Ebay - the worst place to sell stuff!
It will be much more efficient sending with Royal Mail especially as most people can easily collect items if they are not in when its attempted to be delivered.
At least with ebay I can sell a couple of hundred items some months, some go to the states, others various European countries, and a few to Russia, South America etc..... so please tell us all what other sites can compete with that.
Deal voted cold because its not a good deal at all. Much rather use my local PO and pay another 15p for 2nd class recorded with £50 of cover.
I am betting it will get there just as quickly, Their delivery schedule is very vague (next day 24-48 hours?)
I've become increasingly disillusioned with myhermes of late so this might be a viable alternative. Fwiw I had no real issues with myhermes for a long time, but when things went wrong it was an incredibly frustrating experience. Forced me to read there T&C's in depth, and realised how many get out of Jail Cards they hold even when it's them that's at fault.
Its far cheaper than the post office and the main thing for me is I can post in the evenings as I work all week. With the post office I had to wait until Saturday morning to post items.
Full tracking is included and its only £1 more to upgrade to insure items to a higher value.
They use UKmail to do the actual delivery. When your ebay customer receives the item that's who they get it from, not Argos.
It seems to be its limited to a handful of Argos stores, so when I've bought items off ebay and suggested sellers to use it they often can't.
The only issue to mention is not all the staff in the Argos store are trained to book items into this service and the PC they use to do it is extremely slow (they don't use the normal tills) but its still far better for me compared to rushing around on a Saturday morning.
mike
mike
Argos staff could have been more attentive, as there was no queue at the ebay/fast collect pickup point, but once they'd bothered to serve me, the handover of the parcel was very efficient - wasn't asked for proof of id, so could be a problem if the pickup code was found and used by someone else.
Hot deal!
Also a note for newbies - don't bother turning up at Argos until you get the code sent to you. If after a few days you get nothing, contact the seller, they can only get you the code, not Argos as a buyer.
Thanks heaters :wink:
On receipt of return with no DSR invoked the cost would be on the buyer not the seller, no court is going to award a person who did not invoke their DSR rights a refund of a sellers out of pocket expenses for delivery when the buyer failed to collect as notified
their order or notify the seller of its unwanted status.
this service, but the fee is not £3.80!! Much less.. think the fact you can send anything
you like by rmsd [see mbuckhursts excellent reference above] and have it covered for
£500 regardless, is still, 10 years on, the best way to send anything of value or with a
need to know where, who and how it is being progressed.
The MyHermes is the next best thing for small parcels @great value up to 1kg..
Shame that royal mail charge so much for so little with everything else eg: letters
as there is still no real cost effective way to actually post anything that has little
or no value..
Paypal users can get a refund of postage http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/paypal-refund-return-shipping-costs-2426613
11% of shares of Royal Mail current are owned by employees, their first 3 year sell off period is this financial year.
I also judge this by the fact I would NEVER select pick up at Argos because it means a 5 mile round journey, my petrol, parking in a very busy out of town car park and waiting around at Argos.
This may be good for some people, but I can see the majority of people wouldn't use this service, as detailed by the comments.
Sorry, it's a brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr cold from me.
Also good if Argos is on your way to/from work, live in a flat where you share one main letterbox and rely on neighbours to not take your post, live in a tower block, rough area, dodgy neighbors, suspicious postman or one who likes to play knock door run.
Also if no ones at at home & will miss the post too large for letterbox, picking up is your only option or deliver to friends/family. Probably more hassle to go the Royal Mail depo to pick it up.
Personally I will stick to My Hermes. It is cheaper for lighter parcels and if I am sending a heavy parcel I'd rather pay a few pence extra to have it collected from home than try and get it to my local Argos.
They insure the item for £50 instead of £25.
They have thousands of local shops that you can drop off to far more conveniently with no queuing many of them open to 10pm and midnight.
I trust the cornershop manager who owns his shop, lives there and has 14 cctv cameras per square inch far more than Argos who could not possibly care less.
It's cheaper for me to send small items weighing 150g by myHermes for £2.70 with tracked 2-5 day delivery (usually 2 days) than send with Roya Mail for £2.85 for 2nd Class untracked delivery.
Good for buyers, change of mind for second hand goods (Keep bidding and only collect the cheapest).
This service delivers to your front door, it is just the seller that needs to make it to a store. The buyer will never even know that this is the shipping provider.
With this in mind, this service is just another courier, at a comparable price. Only suitable for low volume / one off sellers. Nothing to get excited about. Hot sure how it got to be 800+ degrees.
Voted cold, mostly because no stores in the coventry / nuneaton area support this. That's a big hole in the centre of the country not covered.
A sensible move by UKmail who only have 50 depots, much less than Argos participating stores :wink:
https://www.ukmail.com/find-a-depot
Now. Does anyone who has used it know if they put the cost of postage on the label? Buyers never understand why they may have paid a little more than that figure, and can mark you down.
i have to drive 20 mins there and then 20 mins back to get to Argos so that my customer can get this special price.
thats okay if you live next door to argos but generally they are in the town centre.
Who is paying my time and petrol for this? Ebay sellers make peanuts and then the customer expects the earth and Ebay are total SH*ts who could not give a t*ss about the seller. I deal on ebay i know, its all garbage and so is the quality of most of the stuff sold there.
Thank you again :-)
As an Ebay seller (who obviously is the only seller of decent merchandise going on what Terry King is claiming) i find that most customers do not really care who delivers their item as long as it is cheap. Those who do are mostly happy to pay extra for Royal Mail.
Firstly, it's too expensive; I'm not a major seller, I just sell parts of my collection when I need to make space for new stuff. My Hermes is by far the best service for me. £2.70 for a fully tracked service, which complies with eBay's seller protection scheme is much better value than RM or this new Argos offering.
Secondly, there isn't a single Argos in the whole of Lincolnshire participating! This isn't a "it's no good for me as there isn't one local" comment, it's a "this is no good to anyone in the entire county comment! Also looks like most of the Country's of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are excluded too. I understand these things need to be trialled, but excluding entire counties/Countries isn't the best way to get sellers on-board!
Right, I'm off to book a My Hermes delivery that I can drop off at the petrol station in town a few miles away!
Except if it's Yodel, we refuse delivery and buy from another seller.
Ever give a thought about the seller???
It wasn't to start with :wink:
0-1kg Hermes: £2.70
1kg-2kg Royal Mail: £2.85
2kg-3kg Inpost Lockers (via Parcel2go): £3.59
Very rarely send anything over 3kg.
Why don't you move house then you could be a 2 minute walk from Argos.
I live about 45 minutes from John Lewis but I wouldn't say any of their in store deals are rubbish solely because I would have to get off my **** to take advantage of them.
I love the idea it's supposed to protect against malevolent spirits, I don't think there's a more apt way to describe any courier/delivery company.
mike
mike
I used this service once and it was really hard work at the store with clueless staff taking forever. I couldn't use the tracking ref they gave me until I contacted them and found out it was serviced by UK Mail. Doesn't seem to be a way of booking it online either unless I'm looking in the wrong place but this does mean you can post anything, not just ebay items. I find Collect Plus much easier but also use RM as they often work out cheaper depending on the weight.
1 kg parcels takes 24-48h so you cannot compare it to special delivery therefore it is still cheaper to send it via myhermes or even cheaper via RM if you can squeeze it into large letter.
5 kg parcels costs £6.59 inpost via parcel2go.com - also 24h service and more drop off points than argos at least in my area so here you need to check which drop off point is closer to you as the difference is only £0.36
20 kg parcels also cheaper via parcel2go £7.91 with bigger parcel dimensions and door to door service so you do not have to carry it!
I'm sure the more people who use the service staff will be enforced on the job training.
From a consumers point of view if your Argos is poor as such, email Argos and copy in UKmail...saying nothing and expecting the best service is a fault with UK consumers. UKmail are paying Argos for use of their stores and you bet if they know Argos is not attending to customers the way they are meant to it will be addressed.
UKmail Chairman [email protected]
Argos Chief Operating Officer [email protected]
Bu feet maybe go worse places because CONsumor con selfs into poor service becos no raise high standard at competitioner! Ka'ma haha, hav good day ahead weepete :wink:
I have checked myhermes website and its £2.70 with £20 insurance, so 10p for the insurance.
(They dont appear to cover all the UK though.)
Not so great its third party or the RM branded website is picked up as a possible scam by browsers.
https://royalmailemailform.datasquirt.co.uk
Anyone tried this?
So you drop it off at Argos and they deliver to the buyers address, is that correct? Not to another Argos store?
Thanks