Interparcel Price Bands

[acompton]

I've become an Interparcel convert over the last week; its certainly helped with UK shipping costs of larger items. I started investigating costs for Europe. They don't publish any tables, so you have to put through lots of examples. What I'm finding is their basic services to Western Europe (DHL Europlus and Parceline DPD) are usually the cheapest. As the weight goes up, the price of the more expensive services climbs accordingly, but the two cheapies remain stoically at around £20. Can this be right? Also there are 'holes' in Europe, like Switzerland, which starts at £47.

[Ho Ho Bird]

Discount with Interparcel

Hi Alan - you corrected my claim that you get 10% discount with interparcel if you register. You are probably correct at 5%. Do you actually get it? I sent a parcel today (only in UK £7) and it didn't show any discount. I tried the 'live' help but no one was at home. Are you getting the 5%. If so, where does it show? Cheers

[Mark H]

Alan - have you looked at Bananadoo? Not red hot in the UK, but very good (usually the best) elsewhere.

[Mike Hughes]

Peter, the 5% discount is taken into account at the time of online quoting and booking.

When you hover over the various services for a parcel you should see it saying "£8.54 + VAT inc 5% discount" in the box.

If it doesn't do this the you probably aren't logged in.

Mike

[Ho Ho Bird]

Thanks Mike. I was getting £x.99 prices which I think are the standard quotes. No sign of "inc 5% discount", although it did automatically populate the collection address etc. I'll have a go with another parcel on Friday. Not too big a problem on UK shipping with low costs, but a big one to Austrailia coming next week where 5% will help.
Thanks for your help.

[acompton]

Thanks Mike. I was getting £x.99 prices which I think are the standard quotes. No sign of "inc 5% discount", although it did automatically populate the collection address etc. I'll have a go with another parcel on Friday. Not too big a problem on UK shipping with low costs, but a big one to Austrailia coming next week where 5% will help.
Thanks for your help.

I phoned up about this and was told that the super-cheap services (DHL Home 48 for £6.99 included) don't qualify for the 5%. If you are logged in, the price will be shown discounted). I haven't tried anything other than the £6.99 one.

[acompton]

Alan - have you looked at Bananadoo? Not red hot in the UK, but very good (usually the best) elsewhere.

I had a quick look at the Bananadoo prices (at least they publish prices) and they didn't seem any cheaper for Europe than Interparcel.