Who uses Stretch Film / Pallet Wrap? Any recommended suppliers?

[Jheath]

Hi
We're looking to cut costs by buying some regular consumable items in bulk. One of these we use regularly is stretch wrap.

We use a 17 micron blown stretch wrap on non-extended cores 500mm wide and each roll 300m long. Our annual use is about 70 rolls.

We're looking to buy at least a pallet load or two of this so:

A: Can anyone recommend a supplier who would be keen for this business

and

B: Does anyone else use this who would be up for some "collaborative purchasing" at the right price? (Bigger volume order should give us bigger discount)

 

[arcon5]

I've used this a number of times, not in the qtys you have been using though. But I always found eBay to be the cheapest tbh. Get in contact with a seller and ask to clear them out of it and they may well do a good deal.

 

[SamStones]

We use similar volumes but of the extended core stuff. We just find the cheapest on eBay and buy that. We do get a call from one of the suppliers we end up buying from offering to sell us a pallet load of it. We always turn it down for two reasons:

1. Each time we order from this supplier they send us the wrong stuff, and we have to phone up and get it collected.

2. We don't use enough of it to warrant a larger purchase - it doesn't make sense from a cash flow / ROI point of view.

 

[Jheath]

I've used this a number of times, not in the qtys you have been using though. But I always found eBay to be the cheapest tbh. Get in contact with a seller and ask to clear them out of it and they may well do a good deal.

Hey nice to see another Lincolnshire business here

Thanks for the input on this. I agree there are some good prices from the leading ebay sellers of this product but it's hard to imagine we're getting the best price if we're making them pay the best part of 15% in ebay / paypal charges etc.

Although I like the idea of contacting them offline and negotiating a bulk price. If anyone wants to colloaborate on a bulk purchase let me know - in multiples of 6 rolls.

What other business consumables lend themselves to the same approach to reduce costs I wonder..........

 

[Ashley_Price]

I supply a lot of packaging stuff, including stretch wrap, especially to an online retailer, who orders about £700 of packaging materials every month.

If you want to email or call me for a price, my details are in the signature below.

 

[Ashley_Price]

A distributor will never be able to beat a manufacturers price, purchasers are very often made to pay stupid over the top prices when they could be paying over 50% less.

I have to question who you are directing this at and whether you know the customer is charged "stupid over the top" prices?

 

[marklew]

FYI this is from 2012 so I doubt you'll be getting a response either way

 

[Ashley_Price]

FYI this is from 2012 so I doubt you'll be getting a response either way

Well, it just shows we all slip up from time to time. This has obviously been bumped up by a previous poster as it appeared near the top of the forum.

 

[APW]

we are a professional manufacture of stretch hood wrap and paper angle protector. if any interest, pls contact us.

Since the thread started 6 years ago I'm pretty sure they got sorted by now.