'Best' Parcel Delivery.....

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Mathius

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By best I mean, quickest + cheapest.....

Currently I'm mobile and the search function takes ages to find a good quote......

I need to send my GPU for RMA, and going to return it in the box it came in.....

L - 61cm
W - 36cm
H - 13cm

weight - 1.86kg

I'm not in a real hurry but I've had a brief look and finding that ParcelForce Express 48 is 9.97 + vat, so £12. but only covered for £100 should the worst happen.

can it be beaten?
 
As I've just said on another thread - have a look on www.interparcel.com

That's basically a price comparison site for couriers.

From there, you could go through myhermes which will be about £5.
It'll be extra to add more insurance on it though.

What's the value/what card are you trying to send?
 
I was looking at a list a past experiences and yodel and myHermes have not got the best feedback.

Video card is the big HIS 7950 IceQ Boost,

I've got parcel2go up, and they have a next day via UPS for 8+vat.

just to make sure my printer works. lol
 
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Used parceltogo after selling stuff before and have no complaints. They are like parcelhero as SPS has mentioned. They have accounts with the big couriers so they either get significantly cheaper prices per parcel or pay yearly. You will be able to beat that parcelforce quote there with them and still use parcelforce.
 
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Ok, I'm using Parcel2go, and running with Next Day option.....

Two in question are Yodel and UPS (7.75 + Vat and 7.99 + Vat)

I'm siding with UPS as I can just drop the parcel off as oppose to having to wait in all fricken day for Yodel to pick it up from me.

All good ? or have anyone had bad experience with UPS ?
 
Mathius said:
Ok, I'm using Parcel2go, and running with Next Day option.....

Two in question are Yodel and UPS (7.75 + Vat and 7.99 + Vat)

I'm siding with UPS as I can just drop the parcel off as oppose to having to wait in all fricken day for Yodel to pick it up from me.

All good ? or have anyone had bad experience with UPS ?
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I've had Yodel mess stuff up before. But never UPS :)
 
Gonna take the chance and run with UPS with basic cover of £50. They want 6.95 to fully insure it to the value 185

Fingers crossed :lol:

Change of plan........I went with cover, I read reviews saying that they were bad, and the last thing I want is a measly £50 returned.......so fully covered...
 
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Yup, paid for on Wed, installed into system on Friday, played games friday night and the fan is growling/whirring at me, Overclocking it is a no no at this point. Received RMA number Saturday from a guy saying that it doesn't sound right....

Delivering to a UPS Access Point at 9am tommorrow for Next Day Delivery
 
Well that sucks man, but sometimes you lose the silicon lottery >_<

I'd hate to sound like a broken record, but I'd have waited before sending it off until the 25th; though the 7950 is still a cracker of a card at that price, and I can't see AMD releasing something at that Price/Performance ratio this gen.

Hope you get it back soon!
 
yea it does a bit......but then I dont need an insane amount of power, my 4870 would've done me another year or so.....

The likes of BF4 and Crysis 3 and the heavy graphics games currently dont interest me, I play COD4 mostly and that runs fine on HD4000. MW3,BO2 and Ghosts (yeah, I know.....CoD player)

The 7950 IceQ cards are known to get to overclocks matching a 7970 quite easily, so all good.
 
best one in the uk i have come across is DPD never had a problem with them and they dont charge a fortune :)
 
Never pick Yodel for nothing, worst courier around. Whenever I've used them, £170 worth went missing but was apparently signed for, stuff arrives way late and sometimes they drop it off in their cars.
 
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best one in the uk i have come across is DPD never had a problem with them and they dont charge a fortune :)
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Indeed these are good, infact these are the guys that delivered my IceQ 7950 to me from ocuk.

ShaunB-91 said:
Never pick Yodel for nothing, worst courier around. Whenever I've used them, £170 worth went missing but was apparently signed for, stuff arrives way late and sometimes they drop it off in their cars.
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This is the exact reason behind my using UPS (they were cheaper) and having it fully insured for the full value......

I'd be gutted if I cheaped out and went basic cover (£50) for them to either drop it or lose it. In effect I'd stand to lose £135...The extra £7 in my case more than justified it.

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Btw, I've just had a 'Order has been shipped' mail consisting of my IceQ 7950, so I'm pretty sure that there was a fault. I've got no bill to pay, so all good.....Hopefully have it installed Monday :)
 
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UPS are really good, they are always dropping mail off at work and are always professional. I've never picked Yodel but some companies automatically use them and they are dreadful. I was damn peed off when my Mum's Kindle Fire went missing, luckily Amazon were happy to send another one out.
 
I have issues with paying extra for insurance to be honest.

The consumer has to pay extra to the firm to cover against the firm's negligence in handling the goods?
And then unless you can prove there's heavy physical damaging to the outer packaging they won't even cover you for that anyway.

Fair enough, I can understand there's probably a fair bit of fraud when it comes to claiming from couriers, but if you're paying £15 or whatever for a service that gets scanned in and tracked at every location on the way, then 'missing packages' shouldn't even come into the equation really.
 
I try to avoid buying from abroad as well now, I had some memrobilia coming from America and that happened to get lost. You can go back and look into the archives of each step but it went quiet as soon as it left an American post-office or whatever they use. Don't think it even made it to the airport.

I should of tracked it down but tbh I really couldn't be bothered, I'd had a few issues with couriers at the time and had enough.
 
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