Low cost vehicle or parcel shipping

[Kranz]

Want to move big and bulky items across the country cheaply, including cars???? Or just move a package as normal?

 

http://www.shiply.com/ is an innovative new web site which matches people who need things delivered with empty lorries already making journeys in the same area. Shiply say 25% of all lorries on Britain’s roads travel completely empty - that's more than 112,000 lorries pumping out an unnecessary 36 million tonnes of CO2 a year.

 

Members simply list goods and eBay items they need delivered on the site for free, and wait for offers from the thousands of transport providers who are already making similar trips to make a bid. As hauliers are fitting deliveries in with an existing planned route they can offer discounts of up to 75%.

 

Shiply has also developed tools which allow bidders to import items they have won or are currently bidding on from eBay into Shiply – ready to receive to bids from transportation service providers. At any one time there are over 930,000 items listed on eBay which are listed as available for local collection, usually because they're too big (and therefore expensive) to send. Ordinarily, arranging a courier is time consuming and pricey, but Shiply make it simple, easy and cheap.

 

A Daily Telegraph reporter recently used the service and saved £81 moving a sofa from Berkshire to London.

 

Shiply is a great way to save money, avoid congesting Britain's roads further and cut pollution - find out more or give it a try by visiting www.shiply.com.

[marbleapple]

Sounds a good idea in theory and poor in reality.

 

Is the item insured, who is responsible if the guy delivering your item pulls his back etc.

 

It's just like tyt website that allows people to adverise their drives for parking.... People sign up, breach their mortgage provisions and gets sued by the cars owner when the local scrote damages the car

[Kranz]

I think insurance is something you would need to discuss with the freight operator....... but as they are in the business of freight & haulage you'd hope that they have insurance for the loads they carry!

[Guest shiply]

Kranz, firstly, let me say thanks for the post up about us.

 

marbleapple, thanks for your feedback.

 

In regards to insurance, on Shiply, you are dealing with professional couriers and haulage firms. You are not dealing with private individuals who would of course carry invalid insurance (as per your car parking example).

 

Booking a delivery service through Shiply sets you up with your own contract directly with the transport provider. You receive exactly the same level of service as you would if you went direct. Except of course via Shiply you can save up to 75%!

 

Furthermore, when compared with booking a delivery service direct (and blindly), Shiply allows you to see the feedback profile of providers you choose to transact with. This works like eBay, after a transaction is completed both parties leave feedback for one-another (positive/negative/neutral). So, you know what level of service you can expect to receive.

 

In regards to your statement that the Shiply idea is poor in reality, I'm afraid I will have to disagree based upon the facts. Over 99.5% of feedback left in our marketplace is positive. We have saved over 1.4 million miles in otherwise wasteful journeys since just June 2008. Our service does work, and it works very well indeed.

 

Many Thanks for taking the time to write about us.

 

If you have any questions, feel free to either email or just reply here, I will subscribe to this and get back to you.

 

Regards,

Robert Matthams

http://www.shiply.com