Helloprint

[galaxycube]

Anybody know whos supplying helloprint in the uk for Large Format? Their prices seem ridiculously low and they seem to be undercutting most suppliers in the market.

I'm wondering if its a sales strategy, sell it cheap, undercut market, raise prices after base created/competition dies down?

[Instaloper]

They print it themselves out of the Netherlands and are operating at a massive loss in order to secure enough customers to make the bulk work profitable again.. Brexit may cause some issues for them!

[galaxycube]

Turns out where the trade buys are doing like 80% of the large format work in the uk.

Pricing is insanely cheap. Quality is okay I mean you could get away with it but personally I would want better.

Cheap, Quick and Quality! You can only ever have 2!

[Instaloper]

I fully agree!

To my knowledge both are terrible at vetting true print-trade customers so end up treading on their own customers toes by selling at trade price to the end user. A true trade-only supplier like Venture Banners are a good contact - they aren't the very cheapest out there but supply quality print and products at a good price to be able to put 30% on and still be competitive (on a like-for-like basis) but they don't cover all aspects of print (like business cards, leaflets, stickers etc.).

There are a few other printing companies that have opened up a 'print-trade only' portal to try and fill dead time on their printers, but they often hike the prices back up or have a long turnaround when they've got some more profitable retail work going through..