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  • 27-11-2016 2:55pm
    #1
    campo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,366 ✭✭✭


    While doing some Xmas shopping I have noticed you are much better off ordering from UK sites and paying in sterling.

    As an example her good self wanted some Chanel perfume


    CHANCE EAU TENDRE - Boots Ireland is 94.50e
    CHANCE EAU TENDRE - Boots UK is £61.65 which is about 71e so 23e cheaper then using Boots Ireland.


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  • #2
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    How much would it be in Burkina Faso?


  • #3
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭degsie


    Great tip, but is shipping to Ireland not going to be a complicating factor?


  • #4
    Copper_pipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,553 ✭✭✭✭Copper_pipe


    Parcel Motel or Parcel Wizard


  • #5
    campo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,366 ✭✭✭campo


    degsie wrote: »
    Great tip, but is shipping to Ireland not going to be a complicating factor?

    Majority offer free shipping to UK so just use Parcel Motel


  • #6
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,469 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    I think perfume is something parcel motel and a few others won't accept

    https://twitter.com/parcelmotel/status/541959942413238272


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  • #7
    crabbypaddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭crabbypaddy


    FYI Parcel motel seems to be overloaded already and there will be a glut of black friday stuff hitting them during the week. Support is already taking 5+ days to reply to a support tickets. Tons of complaints on social media. It took them 10 days to send a parcel from Cork to Kildare for me. Can't be dealing with that I've switched over to parcel wizard in the run up to Christmas.


  • #8
    campo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,366 ✭✭✭campo


    Ghost Train wrote: »
    I think perfume is something parcel motel and a few others won't accept

    https://twitter.com/parcelmotel/status/541959942413238272

    Good point mind you I think you would be very unlucky not to get perfume tru


  • #9
    DopeTech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,958 ✭✭✭DopeTech


    Yeah if I'm getting anything before xmas I'll use parcel wizard or address pal. Had a new router from vm take almost a week to arrive. Was delivered to the depot but it would appear there was a long wait for a locker.


  • #10
    Sono
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭Sono


    Ghost Train wrote: »
    I think perfume is something parcel motel and a few others won't accept

    https://twitter.com/parcelmotel/status/541959942413238272

    Had a bottle of perfume ordered to parcel motel a couple of weeks ago, picked it up at my local PM with no issues whatsoever


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    How would they know whether its perfume or not?


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  • #12
    Sono
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭Sono


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    How would they know whether its perfume or not?

    Haven't a clue! There's not a chance they open the parcels


  • #13
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭degsie


    Sono wrote: »
    Haven't a clue! There's not a chance they open the parcels

    X-ray, sniffer dogs, common sense...


  • #14
    Simi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭Simi


    degsie wrote: »
    X-ray, sniffer dogs, common sense...

    I've ordered plenty of liquids, including perfume and nothing has ever been stopped. They don't care.


  • #15
    oakshade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭oakshade


    Had a run in with Parcel Motel a year back, never again. Address Pal is pretty good, at least the local post office doesn't run out of locker space at peek periods.

    Great deals to be got OP. Got a lot of the kids pressies on Friday on Amazon. Way better prices than Smyths or Argos. You just have to be carful that it's the exact same product.


  • #16
    bored_newbie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 828 ✭✭✭bored_newbie


    degsie wrote: »
    X-ray, sniffer dogs, common sense...

    Yeah I heard Parcel Motel have trained their sniffer dogs to take the x rays. Not a hope of getting through.

    Getting back on topic, there were some good offers on Boots UK site that didn't appear on the ie site. I priced a car seat on both sites. €240 on the ie site, but the UK site had it on offer for £79.


  • #17
    shocksy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,610 ✭✭✭shocksy


    degsie wrote: »
    X-ray, sniffer dogs, common sense...

    I hope you're not being serious because if you are, this is all I can say >>> :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • #18
    Sono
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭Sono


    Sniffer dogs and X-rays from parcel motel, I've heard it all now.

    Be afraid be very afraid guys.....


  • #19
    NATLOR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭NATLOR


    crabbypaddy wrote: »
    FYI Parcel motel seems to be overloaded already and there will be a glut of black friday stuff hitting them during the week. Support is already taking 5+ days to reply to a support tickets. Tons of complaints on social media. It took them 10 days to send a parcel from Cork to Kildare for me. Can't be dealing with that I've switched over to parcel wizard in the run up to Christmas.

    Just to balance that my last two PW orders had delivery failed posted on my page, reason 'gates locked', I have no gates, first floor apt!That was two days in a row, lying fcuks :rolleyes:


  • #20
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    NATLOR wrote: »
    Just to balance that my last two PW orders had delivery failed posted on my page, reason 'gates locked', I have no gates, first floor apt!That was two days in a row, lying fcuks :rolleyes:
    No wonder.
    In Ireland there's a ground floor, then a first floor etc


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