Group Sales

No high street stores and no club discounts?! Cripes, it’s the Alpkit way.

You like our brand, site and products yet you have an aching feeling deep in your stomach. It just won’t go away, you don’t like paying full price for your outdoor gear, perhaps like us you worked in a gear shop as a youth. You joined a club, and your card sits next to your credit card, ready to zapp 10% from the final total but on Alpkit there is no box to enter your membership number. You roll your eyes, curse those cyber pirates sitting in their swish virtual offices before hopping in the car, driving 10 miles into town, finding a parking metre and flexing your 10% in your preferred shop.

Well, some of that’s true, some isn’t. We have worked in gear shops but we are certainly not sitting in swish offices however there are many reasons we have chosen to take this path.

Why can I not find Alpkit products on the high street?

Multiply the price of any of our producs by 1.X and you will have an idea how much it would cost in your local shop. Simply put if we sold our products in high street shops they would be more expensive.

I am a member of a club, why do we not get a discount rate?

Let’s assume we offered a 10% discount to every group that was to approach us, I mean why should we say no to one group and yes to another? Our hunch is that this would be a heck of a lot of people. We try and retail our products for the most competitive price possible to all of our customers.

But surely you are missing out on a golden marketing opportunity?

We have found not offering individual discounts has lost us marketing opportunities however we feel offering the best price to all of our customers is more important. We would also like to think an organisation that supports its members would promote good quality equipment at the lowest price, rather than the shop that offers the biggest discount.

Institutional and groups

If you want to order a lot of one item we do not differentiate between our customers, the offers are open to individuals, groups or organisations. Savings are given by purchasing multiples of the same items. The more of an item you buy the greater the saving that can be made. You will find the volume discount option listed under the regular item price. If no volume discount option is listed it is either because we do not have enough stock to satisfy a bulk order or it simply because we have forgotten to add it. In this case please contact us! This scheme offers discounts on bulk purchases of items, enabling for example 5 friends to buy the same product on one credit card and have them sent to the same address. The savings we make on administration and postage we pass on to the customer.

No Minimum Order

There is no minimum order value, if your school ordered 10 head torches and Johnny dropped one into a pan of boiling pasta, just pop back on the site and order a single torch, we’ll deliver it next day. For some items we may not hold enough stock and will have to make a special order from our suppliers.

Delivery

As with all Alpkit™ prices, the cost of UK shipping is included in the price shown. In most cases your goods will arrive the day after payment is received.

Invoice & Payment

You can pay for your goods immediately as we accept most forms of plastic, however if you need us to raise a Pro-forma invoice so you can arrange a cheque or a BACS payment, progress through the shopping cart as normal and select Pro-forma invoice as your preferred payment method. We will contact you shortly afterwards to sort out all the details.

The Alpkit way
- spend very little on advertising
- little or no packaging
- not having to conform to standard r.r.p’s
- products include shipping
- fast service
- quality products
- listen to customers

So that’s it in a nutshell, we hope you can see there are both positives and negatives. We think there are more positives than negatives, we enjoy the freedom to make and sell what we and our customers want. There is no structure of sales agents or buyers to interfere, it is us and you. We are always open to offering the odd prize to a raffle, magazine competition if you catch us on the right day