Buying cable in bulk!

[UNG]

Cable for most wholesalers is not where their profit is they want to get you through the door every job needs cable the money is made having got you in there selling you the accessories and fittings to complete the installation

I've only ever negotiated deals on T&E in bulk where I'm going to use it over a number of weeks on a large job or try and do a deal on an intent to purchase --- rolls of cable per year and if you hit that level you get a rebate. If you are talking specialist cables then there may be good deal to be had but you then have to store it if you are not using it immediately or do a deal to call off as needed
Also the volatility in the metal markets means bulk buying is a big gamble as on larger cable sizes the price can change daily.

 

[dingledong]

wickes today £28. something!!

 

[dingledong]

oooooops thats 2.5 ml
sorry

 

[7029 dave]

Cheap t&e cable is a mare to strip.

 

[D Skelton]

There's a great deal of difference between cheap cable and good cable at a good price. I get doncaster cable probably cheaper than 90% of sparks in my town get cheaper makes for. Tis a joy to strip.

 

[7029 dave]

There's a great deal of difference between cheap cable and good cable at a good price. I get doncaster cable probably cheaper than 90% of sparks in my town get cheaper makes for. Tis a joy to strip.

Agreed Mr S, Doncaster is a good quality cable.

 

[paul_h]

I was in my local scrappy getting rid of a few bags of rewire cable. The guy was brand new and I ended up speaking to him for a while. We got talking about price of new cable etc and he said c'mon see this. He took me into the shed and in two massive almost skip sized containers there was loads of brand new sealed cable. Most of it was prysmian ( good stuff IMO) He wanted £30 for a drum of 2.5 that's the only price I can remember but had all types as u can imagine.

I no everyone likes making abit of cash on the side but it was almost disgusting the amount of brand new cable that was there. But I'll deffo be buying some next rewire I've got on.

might be worth trying if use are looking to save abit of cash?

 

[D Skelton]

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, could well be that fake rubbish from China. No one scraps brand new, legit cable!

 

[SPARTYKUS]

There's a great deal of difference between cheap cable and good cable at a good price. I get doncaster cable probably cheaper than 90% of sparks in my town get cheaper makes for. Tis a joy to strip.

Yes it is a joy. Lovely stuff.

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I was in my local scrappy getting rid of a few bags of rewire cable. The guy was brand new and I ended up speaking to him for a while. We got talking about price of new cable etc and he said c'mon see this. He took me into the shed and in two massive almost skip sized containers there was loads of brand new sealed cable. Most of it was prysmian ( good stuff IMO) He wanted £30 for a drum of 2.5 that's the only price I can remember but had all types as u can imagine.

I no everyone likes making abit of cash on the side but it was almost disgusting the amount of brand new cable that was there. But I'll deffo be buying some next rewire I've got on.

might be worth trying if use are looking to save abit of cash?

Probably hot.....

 

[overskilled]

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, could well be that fake rubbish from China. No one scraps brand new, legit cable!

who says its legit, could easily have fallen off the back of a lorry....

 

[paul_h]

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, could well be that fake rubbish from China. No one scraps brand new, legit cable!

Who says the stuff you buy from your local in dependant wholesales legit? Could be fake or stolen.....


If it was unmarked drums fair enough might be abit dubious, but as I said it was prysmian, still in cardboard box etc etc

 

[D Skelton]

Who says the stuff you buy from your local in dependant wholesales legit? Could be fake or stolen.....

If it was unmarked drums fair enough might be abit dubious, but as I said it was prysmian, still in cardboard box etc etc

Absolutely nothing, in fact the majority of the fake stuff ends up in small time wholesalers, some even makes the bigger ones, then when it's found to be duff it's scrapped and ends up in places like the one described, in big container units being flogged for the second time, this time only it's unsuspecting tradesmen who are buying it who don't neccessarily know that it's fake even though it's got Prysmian and Basec stamped all over it.

The biggest stockists of duff cable are wholesalers, at least buying it from them however gives you an excuse if ever anyone ended up dead as a result of you using it. Your response to police questioning would be something along the lines of "But I bought it from a reputable wholesaler, I had no reason to believe that it was substandard." What would your response be if you bought it out of some container round the back of a warehouse from some dodgy scrap metal dealer? "Why sorry contstubble?! I had no idea that the smelly pikey looking guy was selling me duff cable?! He swored it to me?!"

 

[shanky887614]

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, could well be that fake rubbish from China. No one scraps brand new, legit cable!

They do around here, the only thing is the scrappy sells it back to the wholesaler cheap as there mates

 

[D Skelton]

They do around here, the only thing is the scrappy sells it back to the wholesaler cheap as there mates

Who? Who is scrapping brand new rolls of cable?

It's a myth

 

[shanky887614]

Who? Who is scrapping brand new rolls of cable?

It's a myth

Nope, they book cable out on company account then scrap it. Not a myth