Delivery
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It also depends on your location. UK has significant issues with imports at the moment due to problems at ports.
This also has a knock on affect for other countries as the source may very well cancel or re-plan a container shipment if a stop off point would result in part of the shipment getting stuck there. Ports only have so much space to hold containers and many of them are increasingly seeing empty or half full containers not getting returned or shipped on.Add to that, significantly increased container shipping costs, as companies outbid each other in an attempt to guarantee delivery times its only logical that some companies won't be able to absorb the extra cost or just say screw it, our clients will have to wait.
This is in no way letting pg off the hook. Their communication on issues and realistic expectations should be way more transparent than it is. As it stands it's woeful.
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I’m the same. Ordered 23rd December and was showing as delivery sent from 27th January which I thought was bad and yesterday it changed to the 3rd of February. I spoke to Camden GuitarGuitar branch yesterday over chat and they said they’d heard postage had Beene delayed to the end of jan/beginning of feb but he said it’ll be worth the wait.
I’ve tried messaging PG on Facebook messenger but they haven’t read my query from the other day or the one I sent yesterday which was asking why postal date had changed. Hopefully it’ll arrive out of the blue but getting some kind of notification would have been nice to know it would be delayed as it’s just good customer service. I’m not going to start panicking myself but I do wish they’d have said there would be a delay in posting before I placed my order as it was showing in stock let alone missing out on the bag with the order by 24 hours after I had placed the order.
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@dhbailey I agree, that explains it, hope guys here receive theirs soon too, mines' sounding good so far! =)
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@alexcarvalhomyself
Hi Alex,
The frontiers aren't closed, though media stories do get muddled the further they travel.
Two things have affected the border between us and mainland Europe. Firstly, a second, highly transmissible variant of covid19 was discovered in England and began spreading rapidly. As a precaution (and the correct action IMHO) the rest of Europe closed the border to travel (personnel) and to road freight crossing the English Channel into Europe. Freight suffered for a few days until it was agreed that drivers could cross with their loads provided they could prove a negative covid test less than 72 hours old. Freight started moving again and although I believe there is still a longer delay than normal the border is no longer closed. I think similar agreements were made for passenger flights.
Secondly, the port at the French side was blocked by protesters for a time. I am unsure if this protest was to do with Brexit negotiations or covid (possibly a combination of both).
To the best of my knowledge air freight was relatively unaffected.
All of this is irrelevant however, since the problem clearly isn't the getting the Spark across the border, as it hasn't even SHIPPED yet!
If it was stuck at the border I would accept that as part of the political and medical issues that most people are helpless to influence (health precautions aside). It is the fact that it hasn't even left it's origin yet which is the failure. Not the journey itself.
Whether the origin is Germany, USA or the dark side of the moon is irrelevant. Wherever it is coming from it hasn't left yet, despite the claim that it was in stock when I ordered on 11th Dec.
Thanks for your heads-up regarding the Yamaha THR, I may just research this and see if it worth cancelling my order for.
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@alexcarvalhomyself
Hi Alex,
The frontiers aren't closed, though media stories do get muddled the further they travel.
Two things have affected the border between us and mainland Europe. Firstly, a second, highly transmissible variant of covid19 was discovered in England and began spreading rapidly. As a precaution (and the correct action IMHO) the rest of Europe closed the border to travel (personnel) and to road freight crossing the English Channel into Europe. Freight suffered for a few days until it was agreed that drivers could cross with their loads provided they could prove a negative covid test less than 72 hours old. Freight started moving again and although I believe there is still a longer delay than normal the border is no longer closed. I think similar agreements were made for passenger flights.
Secondly, the port at the French side was blocked by protesters for a time. I am unsure if this protest was to do with Brexit negotiations or covid (possibly a combination of both).
To the best of my knowledge air freight was relatively unaffected.
All of this is irrelevant however, since the problem clearly isn't the getting the Spark across the border, as it hasn't even SHIPPED yet!
If it was stuck at the border I would accept that as part of the political and medical issues that most people are helpless to influence (health precautions aside). It is the fact that it hasn't even left it's origin yet which is the failure. Not the journey itself.
Whether the origin is Germany, USA or the dark side of the moon is irrelevant. Wherever it is coming from it hasn't left yet, despite the claim that it was in stock when I ordered on 11th Dec.
Thanks for your heads-up regarding the Yamaha THR, I may just research this and see if it worth cancelling my order for.
Much appreciated.RDG the docks are n the other side at France were blocked because of the French fishermen not happy about Brexit negotiations. And the blockage at Dover was because of the new strain of the virus concerns which didn’t start in the UK (it started or was found in Africa and some people brought it back) the stopping of people entering into Europe from the UK was a mixture of Maceon spitting his dummy out over the French fishermen’s fishing quota as well as a mix of the fear of the new strain. After the army helped test all the drivers at the airfield the ones passed fit were allowed to continue on their journey once an agreement had been made with the French. This as said by the news was also reported as being only attended freight ie drivers driving lorries from uk to Europe and vice versa. The unattended ones that were trailers dropped at the docks and then transported to the next country like Immingham/diver or Teesport would then be offloaded by docks a hunters so UK drivers could deliver the goods (something I used to do myself up until the start of this coronavirus thing kicking off and my health becoming a problem) we would then once delivered reload the trailer over here or take the empty trailer back to the docks so it could go back over the water. In my opinion this virus reason for not allowing people to move between countries was just a load of bull as drivers don’t normally have contact with others as they sleep in their wagons and physical contact is down to a minimum because all the food outlets and truckstops are shut because of lockdowns.
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@kain-harkins
Absolutely!
In fact many of the drivers crossing from UK were actually heading to other European countries and wouldn't normally have cause to even stop in France. You are correct about the fishing quotas argument (I didn't want to open a can of worms by being too specific). -
@rdg25366 lol yeah that can of worms has well and truly been opened already