Ironic, really, since I defended Electus a couple of weeks back.
I recieved a delivery of Electus items today and sat there stunned reading the invoice. I ordered from the 2008 cattle-dog. The invoice revealed a 20% (that's TWENTY PERCENT!) price hikes on average, on the items I ordered. YIKES! Last I looked the Aussie Dollar was pretty strong and the Chinese Yuan has not strengthened. If that was not bad enough, I glanced at the freight charges - $17.33 for overnight freight. Jeez. I send out an average of two items per week (up to 20kg each) and I get charged less than $10.00 per item. And that is for same day delivery. For next day, the price can gt as low as $4.00. Electus stung me for $17.ss for a 5kg package, for overnight delivery.
OK, I realise that the new Ferrari has gone up in price and Gary probably needs a new one, but stinging trade customers such obscene prices will not win any new friends.
I'll be using WES, Altronics, RS and Farnell ahead of Electus in future.
WES charge $6.90 for same day local freight. Farnell charge $10.00.
Wake up and smell the coffee Electus. You're going to lose a lot of business this way. I can see Electus gonig the same way that DSE Wholesale went. Down the gurgler without a trace.