8oz and 12oz hex jars on sale at pattesons

[VEG]

Ring them and ask

 

[Jed D]

UMM...
We were hoping for this deal to come off !!!! Nearly out !!!

 

[iand]

For those holding out for a 25% discount on their 12oz hex jars for the promised January month end sale.........don't. They're outta stock until early Feb.

I'm led to believe that production of the next batch of 12oz hex jars will start on 8th Feb.

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

Any sign of a Pattesons's 12 oz hex sale this year?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

there was one just before Christmas

 

[BeeJayBee]

Any sign of a Pattesons's 12 oz hex sale this year?

there was one just before Christmas

^^^ that was last year!

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

aye - but it helps to know the timescale.
I find if you call and negotiate a price you'll get as good a deal if you order sufficient - the last deal was pretty poor anyhow. I don't think we'll ever see the kind of deal they gave a couple of years ago.

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

^^^ that was last year!

Not according to the forum. Look up (as of 15 Feb 2016).

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

explain?
The only jars they have on offer at the moment are 110 ml jars not 12 oz and 12oz octagonal preserve jars

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

explain?

My quote was BeeJayBee saying "that (Christmas) was last year". Mark and Pete disagree; we have Christmas in February, to judge by the forum header as of 15Feb16.

ADD Ah no: this has happened before, I recall; the Christmas picture gets cached and shift-refresh makes it go away, so others may well not have it. Shame; I kind of enjoyed it.

 

[beepig]

I am a caterer (before stroke) Pattersons are too expensive. i use a bottle and glass company. Tis cheap to buy by pallet.

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

I am a caterer (before stroke) Pattersons are too expensive. i use a bottle and glass company. Tis cheap to buy by pallet.

Care to name? Pattersons are more expensive than eg C Wynne Jones as posted, but as JBM says, they sometimes haggle. I am willing to pay a couple of pence per jar for the fact that they ship jars in dozens boxes; REALLY useful for storage and selling.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Care to name?

Their name is 'The Bottle and Glass company'
Pallets of jars are fine and dandy if you have the space/facilities but for a turnover of a thousand or so a year I don't mind paying a tiny bit more for a pallet full of boxes in nineties

 

[beepig]

A number of yo could club together no? as cluibs do!

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

A number of yo could club together no? as cluibs do!

I got shot down hard in my local association for suggesting that. It's a matter of storage space; with something like that, someone has to take the lead, store the jars, chase the payments etc and it's not so easy round here.

 

[beepig]

why am i not suprised

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

why am i not suprised

Because you are not a fool and you know that the population density of your part of Somerset is 0.5 people per hectare and in my part of London it is 52.5. And I am sure you know better than to assert some sort of regional variation in co-operativeness. As we found with the vaping, people will rise beyond your expectation of them.

 

[pargyle]

I got shot down hard in my local association for suggesting that. It's a matter of storage space; with something like that, someone has to take the lead, store the jars, chase the payments etc and it's not so easy round here.

Yes... not so easy anywhere ... I did something akin to centralised buying for a group of people (not beekeepers). I ended up being a central storage facility for people who only wanted to buy a few at a time and still pay the discounted price for me buying in bulk on their commitment to take (and pay for) their share of the centralised delivery.

I ended up out of pocket when an offer from another supplier came along for a similar product that was cheaper and I got stuck with more than I could use myself and people buying elsewhere. Never again ... unless people paid up front or you trust them a great deal.

 

[beepig]

that'll learn ya. i have similar feelings twards committees

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Care to name?

It's the bottle and jar company actually