Dublin City Council - Bin Collection Privatised/Greyhound Megathread

lensman

Greyhound vs Thorntons grey bin yearly prices.
Greyhound Standing charge €100 + 25 bin lifts @ €6.00 per lift = €250 per year.
Thorntons Standing charge €50 + 25 bin lifts @ 7.50 per lift = €237.50 - 5% discount for online payment = €225.62 per year.

Dodge

lensman wrote: »

Greyhound vs Thorntons grey bin yearly prices.
Greyhound Standing charge €100 + 25 bin lifts @ €6.00 per lift = €250 per year.
Thorntons Standing charge €50 + 25 bin lifts @ 7.50 per lift = €237.50 - 5% discount for online payment = €225.62 per year.

Gryehound/DCC have explicitely stated that those prices would remain for only 6 months, so you can't do a full prize analysis until you know how much they'll charge in 6 months time.

For reference, they changed in SDCC from €10.50 to 31c per kilo (so a 40kilo bn would cost €12.40)

HeidiHeidi

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Our day's collection was changed (apparently) from Monday to Tuesday.

Yesterday, half the road's rubbish went out (all sacks). Today the rest is out. No sign of any collection.

The cats/foxes/rats will have a field day if someone doesn't come and get it all, soon. It won't be pretty.

(Kilmainham)

DCC bin truck just turned up and collected all the rubbish.

Go figure?!

Emma1980

so is it worth sticking the black bin out tomorrow on the off chance DCC come around tomorrow??!!

Dodge

This will be the main topic of discussion on RTE's liveline programme this afternoon

You've be warned

h.s.thomson

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

DCC bin truck just turned up and collected all the rubbish.

Go figure?!

Its not a DCC bin truck. DCC had contract hired the bin truck fleet from a 3rd party hire company. Part of the hire contract would have been that the trucks be signed up in DCC colours & livery.

That company now hires the bin trucks to Greyhound Waste.

John Mason

so we got our letter and the dates have been changed.

so the brown/blackbin has to go tomorrow and the green bin next week but the green was supposed to be collected on thursday and is full to the brim, so i have no idea what the hell i am going to done with the recycling rubbish for the following week

Lawrence1895

irishbird wrote: »

so we got our letter and the dates have been changed.

so the brown/blackbin has to go tomorrow and the green bin next week but the green was supposed to be collected on thursday and is full to the brim, so i have no idea what the hell i am going to done with the recycling rubbish for the following week

Was it not collected last week? According to my calender, the green bins were supposed to be collected on the 12th, and mine was.

John Mason

so if i pay this 100e does that mine my account is in credit of 100e or do i have to then pay again for the bins to be collected?

i just paid the 100e household charge last week and now i have to pay this - i had budgeted for the household charge but this has come out of nowhere. :mad:

Psychobabble

irishbird wrote: »

so if i pay this 100e does that mine my account is in credit of 100e or do i have to then pay again for the bins to be collected?

i just paid the 100e household charge last week and now i have to pay this - i had budgeted for the household charge but this has come out of nowhere. :mad:

100e is just the standing charge for the coming year ... you'll still have too PAY IN ADVANCE per lift .... shocking ... a monopoly:mad:

Lawrence1895

irishbird wrote: »

so if i pay this 100e does that mine my account is in credit of 100e or do i have to then pay again for the bins to be collected?

i just paid the 100e household charge last week and now i have to pay this - i had budgeted for the household charge but this has come out of nowhere. :mad:

AFAIK, the 100 Euro are only the standing charge, you still have to top up your account.

Emma1980

Psychobabble wrote: »

100e is just the standing charge for the coming year ... you'll still have too PAY IN ADVANCE per lift .... shocking ... a monopoly:mad:

And don't forget, if you move to another supplier in a few months, you won't get any kind of refund from Greyhound as "its not their problem" if you move!

lensman

It's the complete arrogance with which customers have beed treated by both DCC & Greyhound, this arrogance has become the norm as far as I can see, state, semi state, public & private company's are fully aware of the fact that so far we the public are putting up with austerity without any real protest & this gives them the green light to act in this manner, they are getting the boot in while we are down & it's our fault.

Lawrence1895

Emma1980 wrote: »

And don't forget, if you move to another supplier in a few months, you won't get any kind of refund from Greyhound as "its not their problem" if you move!

...and somebody who moves house, won't get a refund either, I suppose :mad:

Psychobabble

Additionally, black bins are only collected every two weeks, as opposed to weekly.

Dodge

From what I'm reading the real problem here has been the speed of all these changes. In msot cases, DCC residents are really only catching up on the rst of the country, but in one fell swoop with no time for residents to examine it/explore their options DCC and Greyhound have really acted horribly.

Standing charges are the norm everywhere, as is pre-payment of lifts (some rural towns expect the whole yearly payment up front) and residents in SDCC have only had forthnightly collections for a couple of years now

Add in the lack of competition, horrendously bad communication regarding bin days and payment methods and such a short time to pay the annual fee, its clear they've completely ballsed it up

Dancor

Pricks were emptying black bins this morning but they only went out last week and my green bin is full and won't be collected till next week. Eijits.

Skatedude

Psychobabble wrote: »

Additionally, black bins are only collected every two weeks, as opposed to weekly.

Er, black bins were only collected every 2 weeks before anyway. least in my area they were. green bin one week, black bins the next

SPDUB

SPDUB wrote: »

Strangle lack of bins put out on Crumlin Rd ,Herberton Road today for the new collection day .

Both those roads got their letters on Thursday and Friday .

Well the explanation for this was that a lot of people put their green bins out for collection today as per the old DCC collection schedule.

Of course nobody collected them .

Fuinseog

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

DCC bin truck just turned up and collected all the rubbish.

Go figure?!

where is this?

Fuinseog

SPDUB wrote: »

Well the explanation for this was that a lot of people put their green bins out for collection today as per the old DCC collection schedule.

Of course nobody collected them .

the green bins were collected by greyhound, at least according to their calender, on Friday, although they only took over on monday.

SPDUB

Fuinseog wrote: »

the green bins were collected by greyhound, at least according to their calender, on Friday, although they only took over on monday.

According to their info pack around this part of Crumlin Black/Brown yesterday Green next Monday

cosmic

Just spoke to a lovely, really helpful, guy in Thorntons and I'm signing up online tonight. Greyhound can go f*ck themselves, in my opinion.

Emma1980

Dodge wrote: »

From what I'm reading the real problem here has been the speed of all these changes. In msot cases, DCC residents are really only catching up on the rst of the country, but in one fell swoop with no time for residents to examine it/explore their options DCC and Greyhound have really acted horribly.

Standing charges are the norm everywhere, as is pre-payment of lifts (some rural towns expect the whole yearly payment up front) and residents in SDCC have only had forthnightly collections for a couple of years now

Add in the lack of competition, horrendously bad communication regarding bin days and payment methods and such a short time to pay the annual fee, its clear they've completely ballsed it up

Thats it exactly - we were given no time to consider our options - if we want our bins collected we have to pay out a lot of money up front at a time when a lot of money is not easy to come by! I have no problems in paying for a service but the lack of notice is definatly a problem plus the fact that there is a final bill due out from DCC this week for the last quarter!

Psychobabble

Skatedude wrote: »

Er, black bins were only collected every 2 weeks before anyway. least in my area they were. green bin one week, black bins the next

In my area they were collected every week.

John Mason

Lars1916 wrote: »

Was it not collected last week? According to my calender, the green bins were supposed to be collected on the 12th, and mine was.

our black bin was collected last week.

this week our brown and green bin were due to be collected but they appear to be collecting black and brown bin this week

Dirk Gently

It says on the letter (arrived today) that the green barcode will only be sent out after you pay the 100euro. So even when you pay you'll still be waiting for them to send you out a green barcode to stick on the bin. They wont collect the green bin without the barcode.

Also says the billing period for the 100 euro is 1st january to 31st dec even though letters are still only arriving in the 2nd half of january and even then you'll be waiting for more post from them before getting it lifted.

On the plus side there is no mention of dub citys last 1/4 charge when you log in. It does say on their website that they will pursue outstanding DDC charges but wont entertain accounts in credit. It will be interesting to see how far people are prepared to be pushed.

Ste.phen

cosmic wrote: »

Just spoke to a lovely, really helpful, guy in Thorntons and I'm signing up online tonight. Greyhound can go f*ck themselves, in my opinion.

Where in Dublin are you? I just emailed them to see if they had plans to service Dublin 11 - would prefer to use them than greyhound

Baneblade

just looking on the site and the information on the annual charge is not clear.

residental black bin - says you need to pay an annual charge

residential bag - no mention of annual charge

annual charge - says if not paid green bin wont be collected

so going by their site as im a bag customer im not reqiured to pay the annual charge, ok they wont collect the recycling bin but im not required to recycle either

adamkane

How will arrears be collected by Greyhound?