How Do They Do It .....
 

Last weekend I ordered from Cp4L a box of various sized shrink tube for an upcoming electrical job as I had run out.

There are all sorts of prices around on eBay and, others but, the Cp4L (sister to E/Parts) website and had a plastic box of 127 various sizes/lengths for £2.47 (EP £4.96) which was reasonable. After that with 37% discount the price came down to £2.05.

Today this one item was delivered (with usual SMS tracking info) to my door step by a large yellow DHL van in a substantial padded jiffy bag, together with detailed pick billing invoice from Tamworth!!

I am not complaining but, where's the profit they must be buying them in from their UK supplier, Streetwise, for 'chips'.

Bob :)

How much Bob????? :speechless-smiley-5

You were ripped off! :tounge_smile:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/127Pcs-Ca...s/383076382331

Joking aside, ECP/CP4L etc are still making profit even at what they sold it to you for. They have contracts with DHL for sending out umpteen thousand parcels a week and it's sometimes cheaper for them to send something out, seemingly at a loss than pay the penalty to DHL for not sending the parcels they're contracted to send!