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UPS Express Saver
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Economy Select
DHL Economy Select
What did repacking mean? It meant ripping (literally) open the big expensive subwoofer box, and cramming in some air-bag packaging all around it. It didn't need this, as it had form fitting foam packaging on both ends of the device securely holding it in its double walled cardboard packaging. The packaging was pressing up against the cone of the speaker, causing damage, and due to the box being ripped its structural integrity was now comprised.
Worse still was the Centre speaker -- Forward2Me's staff REMOVED one of the form fitting foam ends from the box, and stuffed in some bubble wrap instead. Not even enough bubble wrap for the speaker to be held securely within its own original packaging. Both speakers would've been infinitely more safe shipped as they were.
If having my items packaging mutilated and mistreated wasn't enough, some of the packing materials they used included other customs full personal details. Their warehouse grunts had been re-using other packaging, without ensuring sensitive information wasn't included. Some of this even included packing slips with other customers Item Details, and even phone numbers. Unbelievable.
The icing on the cake was that on the commercial invoice, Forward2Me neglected to include the amount I paid in shipping on the invoice, and only put down the cost of the devices. As a result, DHL charged me customs on the shipping at their Table rate (of 279 Euros instead of the £58.67 I paid). This meant I had to paid £50 or so EXTRA in customs than I was actually due (111 Euros Total), and the only way to get it back is to submit an application to the relevant local governments' customs/duties/tax department. Forward2Me's attitude was that DHL should've looked it up themselves -- they did, on their table rate. The person handling the customs brokering on entry to the country isn't going to go look up Forward2Me's account and see exactly what they paid. Such a poor excuse, when it would've been 0 work for F2Me to automate this onto the commercial invoice as part of their system.
You'd think that with all the photos and evidence shown to Forward2Me, I might've gotten some compensation for either the customs costs, or the the risk to damage their "repacking" place my products at? I got a £4 refund for the "repacking" surcharge. That's it.
Save yourself the grief, and look elsewhere.
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide
UPS Standard Single
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide
TNT Express Non-Docs
DHL Economy Select
DHL Economy Select
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide
TNT Economy Express
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide
I would enjoy seeing possibly multiple shipping methods/companies to be able to reduce cost at expense of delivery time or just lower shipping rates.
Many thanks for your feedback.
Although I am pleased to hear that you are happy with the timely service you received, I'm sorry to hear that you were unhappy with the costs involved with shipping.
Shipping costs are actually calculated on the amount of space the shipment takes up in transit, this is the volumetric weight. All couriers calculate costs in this way for international air transportation.
The price paid for shipping does also include the service provided by forward2me, this includes the use of the address, the receipt, processing, storing and all export paperwork required for shipping.
Often when retailers ship within the UK they pack goods in much larger boxes than are necessary for the safe transit of the goods, for this reason we offer a combine and repack service. This service offers a repack of the original shipping box to help save on space and therefore a possibility of reducing the shipping costs so the customer obtains the maximum value for shipping.
I see that our agent did recommend this service to help save on shipping costs for you however this offer was not taken up.
The combine and repack service can also be used when a customer purchases multiple orders to their forward2me address, once everything arrives a repack request can be submitted from the account to request all the goods are repacked together.
I hope you will consider using our services again going forward and the combine and repack service may make shipping more cost effective for you.
Kind regards,
Tracy.
DHL Express Worldwide
UPS Standard Single
DHL Express Worldwide
FedEx International Economy
FedEx International Priority
TNT Economy Express
UPS Express Saver
UPS Standard Single
With that delay we had to pay a 30% plus taxes due to Brexit.
Then the package took over 2 (TWO) months to arrive from UK to Spain by UPS with little or no help from the customer service when we asked for it.
Many thanks for your feedback.
I'm sorry to hear that you are unhappy with the service forward2me have offered, I see the main issue was that you wanted to ship your goods from the UK to the EU before the end of the transition period for Brexit.
Unfortunately in preparation of this period our couriers suspended road services a few days before the start of Brexit on 1st January so we had no way of offering this type of service until they were enabled again by the courier on the 4th January 2021.
At the beginning of Brexit all courier transporting goods to the EU from the UK have incurred difficulties and delays with the clear of goods both on the UK and EU side however we are now finding that the situation is settling down and should become smoother in the coming months. I do apologise that these delays impacted on your delivery however this again was out of our control.
For the issue with import duty and taxes, if the importer cannot prove that the goods qualify as preferential goods as per the rules set out in the UK/EU trade agreement, duty and taxes may be payable.
We are opening a dedicated warehouse in Germany shortly for all our customers based within the EU, this will enable our customers to purchase goods in other EU countries and still take advantage of shipping within the EU Customs Union.
I do hope that you will continue to use our services going forward, maybe via the Germany warehouse if costs for import are too high for shipping from the UK.
Please feel free to contact our Customer Service team at info@forward2me.com if you have any other questions.
Kind regards,
Tracy.
UPS Express Saver
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide
TNT Economy Express
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Economy Select
Many thanks for your feedback.
I'm sorry to hear that you are unhappy with the price paid for shipping from our German facility.
I see that your parcel was oversized and incurred additional surcharges for shipping via the courier service which has made shipping on this occasional a little more than usual.
We currently work with a partner in Germany with limited shipping options however we are currently in the process of opening up our own facility in Germany to receive parcels which will be more cost effective for our EU customers and offer more economical services for shipping.
I hope you will try out this facility once it is up and running and hopefully you will find the service more economical for you.
Please feel free to contact our Customer Service team at any time if you require a upfront quote for shipping larger bespoke items and we will be happy to assist you. You will then be able to choose if you wish to go ahead with the purchase based on the price offered.
Kind regards,
Tracy.
DHL Express Worldwide
TNT Economy Express
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide
FedEx International Priority
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide
I appreciate the 30days free storage and the combine & repack service so to optimize my shipments...
the team Is nice both when you Need assistance and when they manager your packs: Mille has taken great care in combining my parcels lately
DHL Express Worldwide
thank you
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide
DHL Express Worldwide