JD Metals

Anyone used the company that is now flashing at the top of the page ( turn off your add blockers)

Just thought I would look at a couple of prices, looked at steel rounds most all of the size/length combinations I tried were not available. Then tried 20mm/1500lg in stock but described as 20mm Aluminium 6082

Several other metals listed along the top such as stainless and bronze don't have anything listed

maybe the MTM advertising department can pass on the poor performance of their site.

J

It looks like they are in the process of populating their web site.

Give them few days and see if it fills up.

Neil

Checked out Ali bits and whatever you want whether sheet or square bar you only get the option to order by dia. not that they have any anyway.

Is that JD Metals Ltd the scrap dealers in Telford?

Dave

Scrap dealers? if so,I,ve come across better ones. They dont seem to have anything.

.

Possibly/Probably not.

Quote from the Terms & Conditions: **LINK**

JD Multi Metals, Unit 16, Newhall Industrial Estate, Sheffield, S9 2TW
Registered in England: Partnership No OC414358

https://www.themultimetalsshop.co.uk/terms-and-conditions/

MichaelG.

I bought a few bits from them on Ebay. Seemed OK

Hywel

I see that JD have an advert on the site but there web site has no company details (Registered address etc). I like to know who I'm doing business with and this all seems a bit fishy.

The previous incarnation of this company

JD Multi Metals, Unit 16, Newhall Industrial Estate, Sheffield, S9 2TW
Registered in England: Partnership No OC414358

was ' dissolved via compulsory strike-off'

I did have another look when their new advert apeard about a month ago, seem expensive to me as each item seems to have postage included (or is very pricy) and no reduction as you build more stuff in the basket.

Rather go to a company that prices the metal per item and then adds P&P at the end based on weight.

Compared to someone like Ringwood Metals I can get 3 times as much from them for the same outlay as JD.

After reading this thread, I have just had a quick look at their website. My main interests involve alum alloy, so I went straight to the "Aluminium" page and looked for details of alloy type and temper. Nothing. So if I was living in the UK, which I'm not, as far as I'm concerned they would be off of my "suppliers" list.

cheers

Bill

Although a very low volume user of metals I will not buy any metal unless the seller gives the basic specification for that product. Motto 'If they can't be bothered to supply this data then don't purchase' no ifs or buts.

Martin

edit: re-worded

Edited By Martin W on 25/04/2021 09:56:48

That address now seems to house a car repairs business though the post codes don't match they are next door.

Leave them alone until they get their act together, they may need you more than you need them.

Larry, look at the dates. the first few posts were in 2017

Point taken ! It,s just that some of these posts seem to crop up out of the blue.

No offence intended.

I have had two deliveries from them, fairly recently. In neither case did I get what I ordered. In the first case I had great difficulty getting a response from them (via ebay) of any sort. In the second, the response was 'Oh dear, I'll have a word with the chap that does the work'.

A further problem is that the site I name has no system for dealing with a delivery order which is not what was described. The only sense I got was to complain under the heading 'goods not received' - and take a photo of what is delivered to show that it really does not match the advert. In my case - offcuts which were ordered as strip and what arrived was hex bar.

Cheers, Tim

Edited By Tim Stevens on 25/04/2021 17:18:48

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Curiously, Paul... The Terms & Conditions page : **LINK**

https://themultimetalsshop.co.uk/terms-conditions/

still shows the Partnership number ... which, as you noted, has been dissolved.

The term ‘bargepole’ springs to mind !

MichaelG.

I had two goes at buying some phosphor bronze round bar from these guys on ebay and they failed to deliver on both occasions, on the first occasion i managed to get someone on the phone who assured me they'd send a replacement item by next day courier, they cancelled and refunded instead, so i gave them another go, this time i failed to get hold of them by phone, and the item still didn't show up, i ended up getting a refund through ebay.

My impression is they have a sack it high sell it cheap mentality but are incredibly badly organised and don't care enough to try and improve their customer service or make the business more user friendly. Their google reviews are all bad, and i note they have deleted the company facebook account, probably because they were getting lots of bad facebook reviews and company's can't edit or delete reviews as i understand it.

both their ebay accounts are high feedback with lots of negs but they're obviously still selling stuff because for the most part they seem cheap, i eventually brought the bar i wanted from another supplier but it was half as much again price wise, it did exist though and arrived as promised, which was an improvement, i suspect they have a high volume of sales and are making money despite the terrible service and think why change?

my advice would be to avoid them and pay a bit more to someone who actually cares whether you get what you ordered or not.

I placed an order about four weeks ago for some stainless sheet and bar. Ordered Sunday received Thursday all as ordered. So not all negative or was I just lucky.

I think the majority of people get what they order, it's just that judging by their ebay feedback lots don't and when that happens they aren't bothered about rectifying the matter.

When you sell stuff on line, things go wrong, stuff gets lost or broken in the post, sometimes you make a mistake, what marks a good business out from a bad one is not that the issue has happened, but how it is dealt with. It appears that this company have decided not to bother with this aspect of their business, either because they lack the aptitude or the inclination, or because they've judged they can get by just fine by not bothering.

If you pay for your order via paypal or a credit card, you'll likely get your money back so if they happen to be the cheapest, one may judge that it's worth the gamble. You can soon waste a lot of time chasing stuff that hasn't arrived and filing claims through pay pal etc though, and i'd also prefer to give my money to a company that doesn't hold me in contempt by messing me about and then not bothering to make any attempt to rectify this.

you pays your money, you takes your choice, as they say.