strange pricing

[Windy Miller]

I came across an online inconvenience store yesterday. Went to Parker Steel's website as amongst some other material I need some 100 x 100 x 10 steel angle. Using their online pricing tool, a 6 metre length is £87 plus VAT, but I only need 1.5 metres - Parker Steel's price for a single 1.5M cut length? £108 plus VAT!

Normally I buy full lengths of steel, on the basis that the leftovers always get used eventually, but I can't see that happening with a "spare" 4.5M of this chunky angle, which is going to be heavy as well as awkward to store in my workshop.

I need a bit of angle about that size, but only about a foot or so. So I can help you out a very tiny bit!

 

[Stueeee]

I need a bit of angle about that size, but only about a foot or so. So I can help you out a very tiny bit!

Thanks for that -but in the end I managed to find the exact length I needed on ebay for about a third of the price that the Parker Steel comedians were asking for the same material http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mild-Stee...hash=item3f594a29e4:m:mRUnT0K2abicZyX6pMCb-wg

 

[mcostello]

Even here in the Colonies Parker induces panic and pain when they tell the prices, don't know how they sell anything.

 

[CompoSimmonite]

My house buildings and contents insurance due so checked on comparisons sites and found existing company offer exactly the same cover for £34 cheaper to new customers. Rang them up and they dropped renewals down to match without any problem to stop me going to another insurer. Just goes to show it's worth politely querying.

 

[Kent]

I wanted galvafroid paint a bit back Parker was the only place I could fimd selling it
Looked at the price and the carriage and changed the specifications