The thing about using Gixen is that it does teach you discipline, you set the price you are comfortable paying and if you can resist increasing the max bid, it will keep your spending under control for you. To date this year out of 49 auctions using Gixen, I have won 2 of them, 1 was for my max bid and the other (Fluke 85) was £2 lower than my max bid and both of those wins was while I was otherwise busy or not in a position to bid, i.e., driving etc. There has been quite a lot of BIN buys and a few where I have had an offer accepted. I will think about it.Īs you all know, I have been bidding on the bay but not winning much, and I have been using in the main, Gixen but on many items I have been bidding live, and I can honestly say without contradiction there has been a total of 49 auctions where I have used Gixen this year and god how many auctions I have been part of live. So the TipTree will end up 12 times more expensive huuuuu. Just checked on-line the price for BOnne Maman strawberry. So my jar of strawberry would therefore cost me 5 + 5pounds, 10 pounds, which is 14 Euros at today's exchange rate. It gets even better for heavy stuff : up to 30kg, it's only 12 pounds, which is twice cheaper than the normal price. 2) Shipping is 5 pounds up to 1kg, 8 pounds up to 2kg, which is the same we get charged by transporters here for local / national destinations. That explains why the jar costs twice the normal price, 5 instead of 2+. So that's why they can sell 'DDP', duty paid. 1) They opened recently a warehouse in Mainland Europe, in the Netherlands, to make it easier admin-wise to sell stuff to continental citizens. Just clicked here and there on that British Corner website, have answers now. They must a hidden agenda of losing any and all customers so they can go bankrupt and fire everybody. same with the French Post, it's a total ripoff and gets worse and worse every year. I also suspect that, post Brexit, English food might have a hard time with French customs unless managed by someone who knows the right person to bribe.įuck royal mail. By way of contrast I just got my latest consignment of PCBs from China and the postage on that was £2.01 airmail and took 7 days - posting a "small parcel" in the UK to the UK would cost £3.20.
But, sending a single jar of jam to France from England ought to be cheap as chips - a £2.59, 350g jar of jam from the supermarket would cost £7.80 for surface post to France and would take 3-5 days. If it wasn't for the rapaciousness of the Royal Mail - it costs a fortune to send anything anywhere now - I wouldn't even pause to think, I'd just send you a jar as a gift - still no taxes or duty on small gifts. Unfortunately Tiptree paused international sales during the Covid thing and don't seem to have resumed them fully again yet.
Quote from: Cerebus on August 14, 2021, 03:49:32 pm I looked at that, and that's £5.69 a jar versus £2.59 on Tiptree's own website.