Shiply any good?

[mrcitroen]

Hello

 

I may need to transport a car and wondered if any of you guys have used Shiply. How does the deal work? What are the gotchas?

[panhard65]

I used to get work through shiply but it just doen't pay from a supplier point of view. Expect to pay less than £1 a mile as it is cut throat with the bidding. Shiply do take a cut though and as a transport provider we only see the price we get paid which is a different price than the customer sees. Find someone with good feedback and you will be ok. There is someone on here that does transport at reasonable rates and I am sure they will be along in a bit. I have just sold my truck and trailer as it is cheaper for me to use shiply sometimes than it is to go fetch stuff myself.

[Bobthebeard]

Used Shiply twice. Once to deliver a car to me, and once to deliver a motorbike I had sold. No real issues TBH. Just make sure you communicate with the chosen driver before the event..... Several times, to make sure that he/she knows the score. Even then it can be a bit hit and miss. I repeatedly asked the guy picking up the car not to collect before 10 am as nobody was home until then. Still rang me at 8 am to say he was outside the house and nobody was in. Hmmmm. As it happened he went for a bacon butty and went back later. Even so....

[Lankytim]

Ive used it a few times. Google the transporter username as it will often appear elsewhere on the net and you can contact them directly. Shiply somehow scammed me out of a tenner last time, and although promising to refund it, are now ignoring me.  

[anonymous user]

I used to get work through shiply but it just doen't pay from a supplier point of view. Expect to pay less than £1 a mile as it is cut throat with the bidding. Shiply do take a cut though and as a transport provider we only see the price we get paid which is a different price than the customer sees. Find someone with good feedback and you will be ok. There is someone on here that does transport at reasonable rates and I am sure they will be along in a bit. I have just sold my truck and trailer as it is cheaper for me to use shiply sometimes than it is to go fetch stuff myself.

Now if you were to offer the service towing the trailer with your Royce I'm sure you could justify a higher price and pick up more business from the carriage trade.

[EssDeeWon]

Leave the keys under the back wheel and PM the location to Dugong.

[brickwall]

Not had any problems myself. I did have to get as much info as possible beforehand to make it all run smooth. I found flexibility helped as some guys do 1 or 2 runs a week from the south up to jockland, so I said I didn't mind waiting as long as it arrived and then loads of them wanted my work. It arrived in 5 days when as the guy i used does one  run, which is fine.

[DodgyBastard]

I know a guy in Bonnybridge who moves cars for me at a reasonable rate, I can pm his number if you're interested?

[mrcitroen]

I know a guy in Bonnybridge who moves cars for me at a reasonable rate, I can pm his number if you're interested?

Cheers. That would be good.

 

If I'm looking at less than a quid a mile, that is the best option as I can't afford to loose a day due to zero free time plus train and fuel costs.

[scruff]

I've had a fair bit of work through Shiply including some real gems but I have to agree with above, just can't compete with the boys doing it for less than a quid a mile!

[brickwall]

I know a guy in Bonnybridge who moves cars for me at a reasonable rate, I can pm his number if you're interested?

 

 

Aye, could you pm me his details please. That would be braw!

[holbeck]

I've used it recently, no problems to report. Shiply seemed to take a margin of about 20%.

[GrumpyCat]

Didn't want to start a new topic, so thought I'd resurrect this one.

 

I have someone interested in my Prelude that is currently on eBay so considering using Shiply to move it from Sussex to Great Malvern. What's the best way of dealing with this as I've not used Shiply before. Let the buyer arrange it or would it be better for the seller (me) to sort it out? Just a bit loathed to hand over a car and a couple of hundred quid to someone I've never met!

 

Any pointers appreciated, ta.

[hairnet]

tell him where the train station is ffs

[chaseracer]

Up to the buyer to sort out transport, not you.

[sierraman]

Isn't Shipley full of chancers running on cherry, quoting ridiculously low prices to shift stuff then either breaking it or not turning up?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I had a good experience with it recently. If you get a price around £1/mile youre doing ok.

 

DEFO get the buyer to sort it though otherwise 100% guaranteed mega ballache and misery.

[GrumpyCat]

I had a good experience with it recently. If you get a price around £1/mile youre doing ok.

 

DEFO get the buyer to sort it though otherwise 100% guaranteed mega ballache and misery.

 

Thanks Mr B, buyer has now sorted it at his end and car should be collected later this week.

 

Hopefully it will all go smoothly. 

[theorganist]

I have used Shiply four times and had three positive experiences and one negative, when the "winning bidder" didn't return any calls/texts and then messaged me a couple of weeks later saying he had been having problems, by then I had given up and made other arrangements. The most recent experience in bringing the Maxi beget Maestro from South Devon to the Midlands was very positive. I had a Renault 14 bought back from Paris to the Midlands for £300 in 2010, although doing some more recent research suggests that is not something that is likely to be repeated!

[hpi_matrix]

I've used it for cars and to move furniture, always chosen people with good feedback rather then cheap price and always been happy with the service.

[GrumpyCat]

Well the car was collected this morning. The chap who collected arrived spot on time, was very professional, knowledgeable and friendly and it looks to be in very safe hands.

 

Very pleased.

[mrcitroen]

I forgot to update this.

 

I got a guy On Shipley.

The move was from Aberdeen to Cumbernauld, so a fair distance. He wanted to know when it could be collected and when I was able to receive it and obv what kind if car and runner/non runner as that would determine the vehicle he would use.

 

Quote was £180 quid £40 if which from memory went to Shipley. He was a really nice guy, let me know when he arrived at the collection point and phoned me a few times en-route with updates.

 

Can't say all the others on Shipley would be as good or professional as him.

[pompei]

I used them to ship a car a few months back.  No problems at all.  The guy probably only made about 17 pence from the deal given the Shiply commission but he gave me his number so I can contact him direct in the future. Would.

[Lankytim]

I get quotes on Shipley then google the guys username, most of the time it appears on eBay somewhere so you can do the deal direct and cut Shipley out of the deal altogether

[scdan4]

Isn't Shipley full of chancers running on cherry, quoting ridiculously low prices to shift stuff then either breaking it or not turning up?

 

We stopped using it.

 

Was all ok for a good few items, then 2 bad in a row.

 

1) took money, never heard from again, shiply wouldn't refund

2) took goods. never heard from again, shiply, again, wouldn't help.

 

This was a good 18 months ago or so, so maybe they're better. But do your homework.

[doubleyeller]

A guy off Shiply shifted the R20 from Heathrow area, up to West Yorkshire, price was £190, £40 of which went to the website. I have kept the guy's number in case anything needs shifting again, as he was bloody good, and gave me a hand getting it up into the garage etc. Point being, I would be able to give him the full amount next time, cutting out Shiply as the middle man!

[Bobthebeard]

Used Shiply to collect the Oldsmobile from Essex to Lancashire. Initial contact was good, price agreed at £200. The intended driver went off sick but sent his mate. Collection happened, the phone call I got when the new driver reached the destination was hard work to say the least. He was Slovakian and only knew two or three words of English and I knew no Slovak at all! Happily PBK of this parish was on hand to wave and point to the car.