On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 10:12:51 +0000, Nightjar wrote:

On 08-Jan-18 5:37 PM, GB wrote:
I received their tool hire guide today. Hiring a sack truck for one day
costs almost exactly the same as buying one from Screwfix. Why does
anyone hire from them? Are there huge trade discounts I don't know about?

I get heavy discounts on anything I buy through my trade account. I
recently bought some PVC welding solvent and got 45% off the list price.
This is normal for most trade suppliers. Newey & Eyre used to give me
65% off electrical cable, when I had a trade account with them.

You were being robbed as iirc we got 93% from Newey & Eyre back in the 1980's on
cable. Sockets, switches, isolators and distribution boards were also something
daft like 55%

Spending a few hundred thousand quid a year helped
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