This is purely for ebay sales. Link your ebay account to your parcel2go account. You must not use the ebay postage. Go to parcel2go and click "ebay delivery" It will upload your orders, add the weight and size etc, and select service. The price has been reduced to £1.59+VAT so £1.91 all in for myhermes drop shop with no insurance. There is no insurance so best for low value items only but if you dont need insurance then its fine. This is likely due to matching the ebay shutl offer etc so will likely end on or around 14th.
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sohi
3 Sep 17#1
Great. Heat added OP
Fo3
3 Sep 17#2
You'll would have to be mad to send anything via hermes with no insurance. They lose 90% of the parcels sent through them.
fiestasteve44 to Fo3
3 Sep 17#4
cheers for your input.
Anon32 to fiestasteve44
3 Sep 17#7
i had a fragile parcel which had it written on it and it was just thrown over the fence. Would never use them tbh to send stuff
Guest991145 to Fo3
3 Sep 17#5
Send 100s of parcels through them through my business. Using them for a couple of years and they have lost 2. My maths is not great but pretty sure that works out less than 90%. I am sure your statistic that you got from someone down the pub is far more accurate though.
BassBassBass to Guest991145
3 Sep 17#31
Ive also used them alot and they are terrible. The dont have insurance on most items and lost plenty of things I've sent, its an incredibly weak service. The delivery drivers are normal everyday people not actual contracted workers. Worth paying that bit more for a reliable service.
ST3123 to Fo3
3 Sep 17#8
Nonsense IME. I have had more lost parcels with Royal Mail than Myhermes and no one goes accusing them of losing 90% of parcels. MyHermes have a (mostly) undeserved bad rep. The other benefit of MyHermes is on the few times I have had something damaged or go missing they have been very fast to respond and offer fast convenient compensation, where as Royal Mail takes an age to respond, especially for international items, which are typically the ones that go missing the most and then you eventually get a cheque, which takes another 7 days plus to clear. Cheques in this day and age :thinking:
BuzzDuraband to ST3123
3 Sep 17#9
I'm not even sure they're a 50/50 service where there's a chance you may even get completion of the service you pay for. Sadly the reviews about this company indicate they are.
My company dispatches around 600 items a month via it's marketplace platforms, and even though these guys are competitively cheaper, I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole. Around two (maybe three) years ago I decided to use them during the Christmas period to handle the delivery of a certain product we were selling at the time (due to sizing). The biggest mistake I have ever made (I've made a few in my time). I don't have the statistics to hand, but around 40% of the orders dispatched never made it to their destination.
I literally cringe now when I know that any incoming parcel is sent via MyHermes, whether that be commercially or domestically. I've sat at home once to open the door to take the dogs for a walk and a MyHermes driver has been walking down my drive. He's only gone and left the parcel in the bin without even trying to alert any of the household members using the common channels - a simple knock or by using the doorbell.
I appreciate that if you're just using this company to send the occasional package from time to time then the chances are you won't see their failings, but they do happen, and they do happen often.
Each to their own though, I guess. This is obviously just my opinion, but I'd rather pay the difference and use alternative routes for my deliveries. I'd personally recommend DPD, but at the same time understand that there are possibly people that have experienced the same issues I have with MyHermes with DPD.
_R4 to Fo3
3 Sep 17#22
I agree, it is the second time now that my items are sent back as "no one was at home" while i was at home the whole day (days). Also their customer service is awful and incredibly incompetent. Avoid them.
BuzzDuraband
3 Sep 17#3
Probably better just packing the item up, taking it outside and dumping it in the wheelie bin yourself. You'd save any postage costs and hassle for the same amount of effort.
fiestasteve44
3 Sep 17#6
same as, send dozens per day, lose prob 1 a month, hardly 90%. lol.
Reena7
3 Sep 17#10
This myhermes price war/drop is proving brilliant for sellers. Ebay doing this, pushing Parcel2Go to react. Fantastic for businesses.
You'll get the usual "myhermes is rubbish" - the poster above "They lose 90% of the parcels sent through them." what a load of rubbish, The service has improved massively and this is a great deal
mel1408
3 Sep 17#11
Hermes been good for me over the years, much more reasonable than the state run GPO.
*Vincent*
3 Sep 17#12
Agree that a price war/drop is good, but then the Royal Mail small parcel under 2kg is only £2.90. For that I lose probably 1 in 200 parcels and then it's just a case of filling out the compensation form and claiming.
If I were to switch to this, how easy is it to claim compensation and do you need a printer to do the labels (I haven't got one).
With any luck Royal Mail will reduce their cost?
fiestasteve44 to *Vincent*
3 Sep 17#14
royal mail prices only ever go up and historically have never been reduced.
fiestasteve44 to *Vincent*
3 Sep 17#15
how do you post your 200 parcels without a printer? surely you dont queue up at the post office?
BuzzDuraband to fiestasteve44
3 Sep 17#17
Drop & Go? :wink:
fiestasteve44 to BuzzDuraband
3 Sep 17#18
You still need a printer
BuzzDuraband to fiestasteve44
3 Sep 17#19
For Drop & Go?
You can hand write labels, you can't draw stamps :thumbsup: :laughing:
fiestasteve44 to BuzzDuraband
3 Sep 17#20
200 hand written labels yeah good one lol
BuzzDuraband to fiestasteve44
3 Sep 17#21
Well, the statement was made regarding 200 parcels, I think it would be quite ignorant to assume those 200 parcels were sent in the same day :smile:
But yes, I have known 200+ labels to be wrote out when the ink has unexpectedly depleted at the worse time possible.
fiestasteve44 to BuzzDuraband
3 Sep 17#26
Unfortunately not a proper business then.
MR1123
3 Sep 17#13
The service you receive will be dependent on area.
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Opening post
Link your ebay account to your parcel2go account.
You must not use the ebay postage.
Go to parcel2go and click "ebay delivery"
It will upload your orders, add the weight and size etc, and select service.
The price has been reduced to £1.59+VAT so £1.91 all in for myhermes drop shop with no insurance.
There is no insurance so best for low value items only but if you dont need insurance then its fine.
This is likely due to matching the ebay shutl offer etc so will likely end on or around 14th.
All comments (85)
My company dispatches around 600 items a month via it's marketplace platforms, and even though these guys are competitively cheaper, I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole. Around two (maybe three) years ago I decided to use them during the Christmas period to handle the delivery of a certain product we were selling at the time (due to sizing). The biggest mistake I have ever made (I've made a few in my time). I don't have the statistics to hand, but around 40% of the orders dispatched never made it to their destination.
I literally cringe now when I know that any incoming parcel is sent via MyHermes, whether that be commercially or domestically. I've sat at home once to open the door to take the dogs for a walk and a MyHermes driver has been walking down my drive. He's only gone and left the parcel in the bin without even trying to alert any of the household members using the common channels - a simple knock or by using the doorbell.
I appreciate that if you're just using this company to send the occasional package from time to time then the chances are you won't see their failings, but they do happen, and they do happen often.
Each to their own though, I guess. This is obviously just my opinion, but I'd rather pay the difference and use alternative routes for my deliveries. I'd personally recommend DPD, but at the same time understand that there are possibly people that have experienced the same issues I have with MyHermes with DPD.
You'll get the usual "myhermes is rubbish" - the poster above "They lose 90% of the parcels sent through them." what a load of rubbish, The service has improved massively and this is a great deal
If I were to switch to this, how easy is it to claim compensation and do you need a printer to do the labels (I haven't got one).
With any luck Royal Mail will reduce their cost?
You can hand write labels, you can't draw stamps :thumbsup: :laughing:
But yes, I have known 200+ labels to be wrote out when the ink has unexpectedly depleted at the worse time possible.